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Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes

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Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes

Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes.
Comparing genomes of intestinal bacteria in various primates and human populations begins to pinpoint the possibly helpful microbes that have gone missing from our guts

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