Scientists find bacterial zoo thrives in our skin

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Thu, 05/28/2009 - 14:25

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eeeww. There's a zoo full of critters living on your skin - a bacterial zoo, that is. Consider your underarm a rain forest.

Healthy skin is home to a much wider variety of bacteria than scientists ever knew, says the first big census of our co-inhabitants.

And that's not a bad thing, said genetics specialist Julia Segre of the National Institutes of Health, who led the research....

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