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Published online 23 June 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030616-21
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Body's bugs to be sequenced
Genome giants catalogue our cavity microbes.
At least 500 species of microbe lurk in the average gut, 500 in the mouth and another 500 in the vagina. A new project aims to log every one - and figure out how they contribute to disease.
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