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U.S. Immigrants Leave Country—and Microbes—Behind

11.15.2018 - By Scientific AmericanPlay

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Immigrants to the U.S. lose their native mix of gut microbes almost immediately after arriving in the U.S.—which researchers can't quite explain. Christopher Intagliata reports. 

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