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Seven degrees from one trillion species of microbes
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Seven degrees from one trillion species of microbes

The Earth contains about one trillion species of microbes — only about one-tenth of which have been identified. A human can house 100 trillion microbes, creating a microbiome that serves an ecosystem of microbes. Microbes connect and transform in myriad ways, creating and combining, and separating microbiomes anew. How can scientists begin to parse out...