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Earth Microbiome: macro science for microbes

On November 17, 2011 By Max Bingham

Big is not something you would immediately place in the same sentence as microbe. However if your ambition is to catalog all microbes on earth it is probably wise to think very big. That is exactly what the Earth Microbiome Project aims to do in what we can rightly call massively [...]

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