Washing Your Hands Might Be Hurting You

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By quantity, only about half of the cells in our bodies are human. The rest are microorganisms living on or in you, and science is only now catching up to the many ways they affect our health. Bloomberg QuickTake explains what the human microbiome is, and why we shouldn't be so scared of germs after all.

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