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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Antibiotics May Be Permanently Altering the Guts of Humanity

Antibiotics May Be Permanently Altering the Guts of Humanity | Popular Science: "If you’re one of those people worried that the over-prescription of antibiotics is leading us toward biological calamity, you’re not going to like this. Writing in the journal Nature this week, Martin Blaser of NYU’s Langone Medical Center makes the case that antibiotics aren’t just leading to highly resistant superbugs, but that they are permanently altering our bacterial microbiomes, and not for the better."

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