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HAVE GUT BACTERIA, WILL TRAVEL

Our feet may be made for walking but it’s our gut bacteria that enabled us to spread so far around the globe, according to a new study carried out by a team of scientists at North Carolina State University in the US. The researchers suggest that our microbiome could have

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