"Species" living on Belly Buttons

<br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rob Dunn and his team of ecologists aren't your average navel gazers. They're professional navel gazers, thank you very much, and their new study details the microbial contents of 60 volunteers' belly buttons.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The upshot? Belly buttons, it turns out, are a lot like rain forests.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXD0JiKMGKlgUNWX6w9Gdx12bkoMpMWZaHGfjksIXjIqI-jpfOP08CCQ1NL_IZ3-ICpRawfo0vj67vOGTBNQOZVmpX4ssbocvbiYrB_aTYnN6XXMUJaWS3b2b3vzL_Bi02IbhNm70gnNKv/s1600/weird+news+belly+button+bacteria.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXD0JiKMGKlgUNWX6w9Gdx12bkoMpMWZaHGfjksIXjIqI-jpfOP08CCQ1NL_IZ3-ICpRawfo0vj67vOGTBNQOZVmpX4ssbocvbiYrB_aTYnN6XXMUJaWS3b2b3vzL_Bi02IbhNm70gnNKv/s320/weird+news+belly+button+bacteria.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The whole thing started about two years ago. An undergrad's only-in-a-biology-lab idea—sampling colleague's navel bacteria for a holiday card—struck a chord with the North Carolina State University team, which had adopted a new focus on citizen science.</span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span> <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/11/121114-belly-button-bacteria-science-health-dunn/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Read More...</span></a><br />

"Species" living on Belly Buttons

Rob Dunn and his team of ecologists aren't your average navel gazers. They're professional navel gazers, thank you very much, and t...

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