The human body teems with microbes. In this, the first of two features, Asher Mullard looks at the global efforts to catalogue this vast 'microbiome'. In the second, Apoorva Mandavilli meets the surgeons who have a rare opportunity to watch an ecosystem being established as they transplant guts from one person to another.
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See Editorial, page 563, and News Feature, page 581 . See also Correspondence: Human microbiome: hype or false modesty? and Human microbiome: take home lessons on growth promoters?
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Mullard, A. Microbiology: The inside story. Nature 453, 578–580 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453578a
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