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There’s a ‘double-edged sword’ in your stomach
Scientists are studying the bug linked to stomach ulcers for means to fight Alzheimer’s disease.
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Scientists are just beginning to understand the microbes that have been with us for millennia – the so-called microbiome.
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F. D. Flam
It’s not always obvious which of the multitude of species of bacteria riding around in us should be classified as germs and attacked, and which are essential workers that should be nurtured.
One that’s particularly hard to classify is H. pylori, which was the subject of the 2005 Nobel Prize for the discovery that it causes peptic ulcers.
