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Study Finds Unexpected Bacterial Diversity on Human Skin – 4
Narrator: This is NIH Health Matters.
Dr. Segre: This year the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research launched the Human Microbiome Project, whose aim is to study the diversity of bacteria that live in and on the human body.
Narrator: Dr. Julia Segre at the National Human Genome Research Institute explains how researchers are taking a closer look at microbes, tiny organisms, using DNA sequencing instead of traditional laboratory cultures.
Dr. Segre: We’ve always suspected that there was probably 100 bacteria that we couldn’t find for every one, but now we have names for them.
Narrator: For more information on this initial study of the Human Microbiome Project, published in the journal Science, visit www.nih.gov. Health Matters is produced by the National Institutes of Health, part of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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