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To: Don Hurst who wrote (619684)7/16/2011 4:06:13 PM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576376
 
and you wackos say GW is killing off species

Human Belly Button Home to Hundreds of Never-Before-Seen Species

Published July 05, 2011

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A belly dancer exposes her navel -- home to potentially hundreds of previously undiscovered species, scientists recently said.

Call it a twist on the study of gut bacteria.

Scientists sampling DNA strains from the navels of volunteer donors have found 662 microbes that are apparently new to science, showing that the human navel is apparently a ripe environment for bacteria.

The Belly Button Biodiversity Project, run by scientists at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, has been analyzing navel swabs from a host of volunteers, as New Scientist explains. So far, they've found 1,400 distinct bacterial strains, nearly half of which have never been seen before.

Read more: foxnews.com