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Your own, personal microbial cloud
It’s floating around you all the time: a wafting cloud formed by billions of bacteria that fall off your body with every movement you make. At the university of Oregon, researchers have revealed that, not only can they detect and catalogue this personal microbial cloud, but each person’s cloud is unique.
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