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Your personal cloud of microbes can be used to identify you

Humans

Your personal cloud of microbes can be used to identify you

When a person enters a house, they leave behind a unique set of microorganisms that could serve as a fingerprint – and it seems to be accurate enough to spot individual people

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Lizards keep evolving toxic green blood and we don't know why

Life

Lizards keep evolving toxic green blood and we don't know why

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Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

Life

Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

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Life

Species with big sex differences are more likely to die out

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Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth

Life

Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth

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Medicine for sick koalas turns out to actually kill them

Earth

Medicine for sick koalas turns out to actually kill them

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A person eating a high-fibre breakfast

Health

A high fibre diet helps treat diabetes by changing gut bacteria

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Skin microbes

Health

Bacteria on our bodies may be protecting us from skin cancer

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Chimps are now dying of the common cold and they are all at risk

Earth

Chimps are now dying of the common cold and they are all at risk

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microbial growths

Life

2018 preview: Thousands of mystery lifeforms to be revealed

Bacteria and other microbes are all around us but we only know about 1 per cent of them. That is set to change, thanks to a technique called metagenomics

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Life

Ancient microbes caused Earth’s first ever global warming

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Health

WHO launches bold plan to slash cholera deaths by 90 per cent

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Life

It's too easy for bioterrorists to access dangerous research

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Life

Thousands of new lifeforms discovered that redraw tree of life

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