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Friday, April 22, 2011

Gut Bacteria Divide People Into 3 Types, Scientists Report - NYTimes.com

Gut Bacteria Divide People Into 3 Types, Scientists Report - NYTimes.com: "In the early 1900s, scientists discovered that each person belonged to one of four blood types. Now they have discovered a new way to classify humanity: by bacteria. Each human being is host to thousands of different species of microbes. Yet a group of scientists now report just three distinct ecosystems in the guts of people they have studied.

Blood type, meet bug type."

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