Antibiotic Resistance Found in Isolated Amazonian Tribe

People with no known contact with Western civilization nonetheless harbored microbes carrying genes that disarm the most modern antibiotics.   That's one finding from new research in the journal Science Advances that studied the bacteria, fungi and other microbes living in and on Yanomami people in a remote Amazon village. The Yanomami present one of the last chances to see what microbes likely shared our bodies before humans settled down and evolved civilizations. As...

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