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Why Parking Your Car Is Such a Pain & How Invisible Microbes Shape Your World

Something You Should Know

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The Role of Microbes in the Human Body

There are around 100 trillion bacteria in the human body, and many more viruses. Microbes on our skin play an important role in protecting it from those few pathogens that do cause disease. We have a turnover of microbial communities as a result of predator-prey dynamics. Every 48 hours, half of all the bacteria on the entire planet are killed by phages.

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