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White House Begins New National Microbiome Initiative To Understand Benefits Of Bacteria
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/158178/20160514/white-house-begins-new-national-microbiome-initiative-to-understand-benefits-of-bacteria.htm#sthash.PThMpqw4.dpuf ^

Posted on 05/14/2016 12:46:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The White House will announce the initiative on May 13 to jumpstart microbe research that would encompass all those that are found in animals, air, plants, soil and water. The government is hoping that gaining more information would give insight on how to fight disease, increase food production, and fight climate change.

The National Microbiome Initiative (PDF) will work with other organizations interested in the research, including University of Michigan and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), One Codex, The BioCollective, the University of California, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The program will have a total of $521 million in funding, with $121 million from the federal government and $400 million funding from private organizations.

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Some experts believe that understanding microbiomes could also help solve crimes. Forensic scientists can use the microbial trail left by people as they go places, much like how detectives solve crime using DNA and fingerprints left behind by criminals.

(Excerpt) Read more at techtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bacteria
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1 posted on 05/14/2016 12:46:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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2 posted on 05/14/2016 12:50:13 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon sThailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Profoundly stupid. Bacteria comprises the largest phylum of life on the planet by a factor of millions, perhaps billions. Attacking the science of bacteria as a single study can only derive from the mind of bureaucrats bent on running the world.
Try this, with no justification the government can require special licensure for any process involving bacteria. Nothing escapes that trap, not going to the potty, not breathing, not eating, not sex, nothing.


3 posted on 05/14/2016 12:53:17 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: BenLurkin

Now Obola discovered bacteria!

Smartest. pResident. Evah.


4 posted on 05/14/2016 12:55:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Feminists are nothing more than politically-correct sexists.)
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To: BenLurkin

We have two parasites, Barry and Mooch, living in the White Crib - study them.


5 posted on 05/14/2016 12:57:01 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: BenLurkin

It shouldn’t be hard to track the spirochete clown in the White House then.


6 posted on 05/14/2016 12:57:02 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
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To: BenLurkin

I don’t know the technical merits, but I do know they’ll find all the really bad stuff along with the good.

Sounds like Biowarfare to me.


7 posted on 05/14/2016 12:57:03 PM PDT by Fhios (Going Donald Trump is as close to going John Galt as we'll get.)
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To: BenLurkin

fecal matter = obama dna


8 posted on 05/14/2016 1:07:13 PM PDT by zzwhale
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9 posted on 05/14/2016 1:11:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SERKIT

I would classify them as viruses, bacteria are far more personable.


10 posted on 05/14/2016 1:11:20 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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I’d say parasites.


11 posted on 05/14/2016 1:27:09 PM PDT by EEGator
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Obama & Harvard Law suggests that bacteria have rights
under the US Constitution.

They are people, too, and entitled to invade and
colonize all immune deficient bodies (the very young,
the very old, the infirmed, those inject by
terrorists brought in by the DO”J”)
except, of course, the very special
in America: the EXEMPT
(Congress, SCOTUS and the White Mosque).


12 posted on 05/14/2016 1:29:27 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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OH great!! Now we can not discriminate against bacteria.


13 posted on 05/14/2016 1:39:16 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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OH great!! Now we can not discriminate against bacteria.

#BlackteriaMatter

14 posted on 05/14/2016 1:52:17 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: BenLurkin

More countercultural medical fads.

just eat yogurt and you will live forever.


15 posted on 05/14/2016 2:28:57 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people..)
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just eat yogurt and you will live forever.

The yogurt will live forever anyway.


16 posted on 05/14/2016 2:31:12 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Another scam people! lets look behind the curtain and see where the money goes. Global warming, high speed rail, solar and now bacteria. Are they still killing babies and selling thier parts?


17 posted on 05/14/2016 2:44:20 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: BenLurkin

Pond Scum will study Pond Scum


18 posted on 05/14/2016 3:00:16 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Great...now bacteria want Special Rights too.
Gay Bacteria is next....


19 posted on 05/14/2016 3:12:38 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: BenLurkin

Thats a dung beetle isn’t it?


20 posted on 05/14/2016 4:34:19 PM PDT by DannyTN
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