A Look Inside the Human Gut (IMAGE)

WashU Medicine

A Look Inside the Human Gut

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The bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis, which lives in the human gut, is just one type of microbe that will be studied as part of NIH's Human Microbiome Project.

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US Department of Agriculture

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