Multiple new strains of bacteria discovered in the human belly button
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 05:30
in Biology & Nature
(Medical Xpress) -- New research released this week may find you spending a few extra minutes in the shower scrubbing your belly button. Researchers from the Belly Button Biodiversity project, led by Jiri Hulcr from North Carolina State University, have revealed their first round of DNA results and reveal the discovery of some 1,400 strains of bacteria living inside volunteers belly buttons, and 662 of those are unrecognized strains.