Is obesity contagious?

09 May 2016


A study by researchers at the Sanger Institute, Cambridge, found that approximately one third of the gut microbiota from a healthy person produced spores that allow batera to survive in open air. The findings were published in Nature and provide new insight into the microbiome.

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