# @seed on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BhKTWxnHSN_
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34247992-seed-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-04-04T19:53:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Seed (@seed) — https://gondola.cc/seed

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If #microbes have evolved to survive the most extreme conditions, then what about the ones brave enough to hitch a ride on our #morning #commutes? Showtime 🤸🏻‍♂️, anyone?⠀
#Urban #metagenomics (the study of genetic material recovered directly from a #city #environment) will clue us into just how wonderfully populous and #diverse the array of our microbial neighbors are, and how they’ve shifted and adapted to city life alongside us. ⠀
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#Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College mapped the #DNA found in New York’s #subway system—a #subterranean behemoth that carries 5.5 million riders on an average #weekday. Almost half of the DNA found on the system’s surfaces did not match any known #organism and just 0.2 percent matched the #human #genome. 🤭⠀
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❗️Newsflash: our microbial friends are everywhere. 🤗⠀

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morning, microbes, metagenomics, city, human, urban, researchers, subterranean, weekday, subway, diverse, genome, commutes, environment, organism, dna

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