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99 percent of microbes in your body are completely unknown to science (newatlas.com)
2 points by credo 3214 days ago
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From the abstract: "Analyzing cumulative sequence data from 1,351 blood samples collected from 188 patients enabled us to assemble 7,190 contiguous regions (contigs) larger than 1 kbp, of which 3,761 are novel with little or no sequence homology in any existing databases. "

I don't understand where the "99%" figure in the article comes from.