What's on your skin? Archaea, that's what: Study on human skin microbiome finds archaea abundance associated with age -- ScienceDaily

 "It turns out your skin is crawling with single-celled microorganisms -- and they're not just bacteria. A study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Medical University of Graz has found that the skin microbiome also contains archaea, a type of extreme-loving microbe, and that the amount of it varies with age."



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