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Four people are standing and sitting inside a lab. A man in the front wears a white lab coat and black gloves, and is holding a plastic circular object with yellow writing on it. It contains phage, organisms that are too tiny to be seen by the naked eye. Phages affect bacteria in our bodies.
Spencer Coppage
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Virginia Tech
Scientists continue to learn more and more about bacteria that exists naturally inside our gut. Researchers at Virginia Tech recently made a new discovery about treating chronic illness by changing the bacteria inside our stomachs.
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