Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Study Likens Human Skin To A Zoo - Science News - Playfuls.com - Science & Technology

Study Likens Human Skin To A Zoo - Science News - Playfuls.com - Science & Technology: "U.S. medical researchers say human skin -- the largest organ in the body -- is a kind of zoo, and some of the inhabitants are quite novel.

Scientists at New York University School of Medicine took swabs from the forearms of six healthy individuals to study the bacterial populations in human skin. They found evidence of 182 species of bacteria, 8 percent of which were unidentified species that had never before been described."

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