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Ancestral components of human gut microbiota are fundamental to health – News-Medical.Net
Neanderthals’ gut microbiota already included some beneficial micro-organisms that are also found in our own intestine.
Neanderthals’ gut microbiota already included some beneficial micro-organisms that are also found in our own intestine. An international research group led by the University of Bologna achieved this result by extracting and analyzing ancient DNA from 50,000-year-old fecal sediments sampled at the archaeological site of El Salt, near Alicante (Spain).
Published in Communication Biology, their paper puts forward the hypothesis of the existence of ancestral components of human microbiota that have…
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