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Promising New Antibiotics Could Be Hiding in Our Gut Microbiomes


Bacteria are outmaneuvering antibiotics faster than we can develop the drugs, and so scientists have turned to the human gut – a competitive environment, home to some 100 trillion microbes – to look for ingredients to use in fighting disease.

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