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Published online 28 May 2008 | Nature 453, 581-582 (2008) | doi:10.1038/453581a
News Feature
Microbiology: Straight from the gut
The human body teems with microbes. In the first of two features, Asher Mullard looks at the global efforts to catalogue this vast 'microbiome'. In this, the second, Apoorva Mandavilli meets the surgeons who have a rare opportunity to watch an ecosystem being established as they transplant guts from one person to another.
Stephanie is the first to admit that she never had the guts for life. She was born with familial adenomatous polyposis, a genetic disorder in which thousands of polyps form in the colon.
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