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AskMen.com February 27, 2014 Patrick Owen	They've Discovered Something That Might Cure Obesity. But It's Seriously Gross. The eternal battle between good and bad bacteria in your gut is greatly affected by your diet, sleep, stress levels, and general health.
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Food Processing August 2006 Mark Anthony	Digestive Health's New Phase The gastrointestinal tract is one of the body's first lines of defense against disease. The more we understand and encourage healthy g.i. tract balance, the better we'll be able to protect ourselves from disease.
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Fast Company November 2009 David H. Freedman	The Gene Bubble: Why We Still Aren't Disease-Free When the human genome was first sequenced nearly a decade ago, the world lit up with talk about how new gene-specific drugs would help us cheat death. Well, the verdict is in: Keep eating those greens.
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HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Virginia Hughes	Dianne Newman: Connecting Cultures Medical and environmental microbiologists have separate scientific cultures, but the same he same methods geochemists apply to sediments and ice cores can be tweaked for cells, tissues, and organs.
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Scientific American May 2009 Melinda Wenner	Quiet Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria devoted to growth instead of "quorum sensing" communication could beat antibiotic resistance.
Chemistry World August 1, 2012 Patrick Walter	Phenomenal Olympic science legacy (or is that sustainability?) What do you do with a lab set up solely to catch Olympic drug cheats once the games are over? In the case of the London 2012 games, the answer is to turn it into a state of the art analytical lab.
Chemistry World November 23, 2006 Victoria Gill	Bacteria That Help Fight Cancer Scientists have given a new meaning to the term `friendly bacteria' by discovering a bacterial protein that helps treat cancer.
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Fast Company May 2009 Elizabeth Svoboda	Biotechs Wage War on Superbugs With antibiotic resistance on the rise, three biotechs are developing new ways to wage war on superbugs.
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