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The wasted chewing gum bacteriome: an oral history

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03660-7

With thanks to Leila Satari, Alba Guillén, Àngela Vidal-Verdú and Manuel Porcar for the marvellous ‘The wasted chewing gum bacteriome’ (Sci. Rep. 10, 16846; 2020).

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