Items Tagged ‘digestive system’

January 14, 2013

Bacteria, For Better or Worse

By Logan Lafferty

Researchers are exploring whether a handful of those critters — a few billion or so — are making some of us fat. Even as preliminary clues emerge, however, a Mayo Clinic specialist has some reassuring news about those bugs: “Nearly all of them are friendlies,” said Dr. Joseph Murray, a physician and researcher on the […]

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