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Living in a World of Microbes
Posted by Joanna Pool on April 8, 2011
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Roberto Kolter, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard’s Medical School, believes that microbes, bacteria in particular, have gotten a bad rap. “Oh sure, occasionally a nasty one like Salmonella or E. coli gets through and causes trouble,” he says, “but for the most part bacteria are quite beneficial, helping us to digest our…