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Discovering Man's Other Half
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Dec 21, 2016 | 16:45 GMT
![The technology and techniques designed to sequence the human genome have unlocked a new avenue for disease research outside of that genome.](https://worldview.stratfor.com/sites/default/files/styles/2x1_full/public/main/images/germs.jpg?itok=BRhhxsp8)
A handout from the Helmholtz Center for Research on Infectious Disease shows the Enterohemorrhagic E. coli bacteria. Recent discoveries have given us some insight into the intriguing interplay between our bodies and the germs that surround them.
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