Tag: human microbiome


February 27, 2009

Bugs in Your Mouth: Yours Isn’t the Only DNA Floating Around in that Spit Sample

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Each of us is made up of about 50 trillion cells, which is pretty mind-blowing until you consider the number of microbial cells living on or in each of us.  It’s estimated that a healthy adult is lugging around 10 times more bugs, most of them bacteria, than human cells. Just as the tiny differences we [...]

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