WHEN Peter Camper, the great Dutch anatomist, was proposed for election as a foreign member of the Linnean-Society of London in 1788, he wrote refusing in very emphatic terms to be associated with a ...

Some of the most abundant viruses in our microbiome have now been classified and can be cultured for further study. Research on the bacteria living in the human gut has blossomed in the past decade.

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