article_snippet.sent: The latest work, published today in the journal Cell Reports, compared the bacteria in the guts of people from the US and Papua
article_snippet.sent: New Guinea - one of the least industrialised nations on Earth.
article_snippet.sent: The research, by Canadian and Australian scientists, found that people in the US had far smaller collection of bacteria - called the ‘microbiome’ - than people from Papua New Guinea.
article_snippet.sent: The research team found that Papua New Guineans have vastly different compositional profiles compared with US residents.
article_snippet.sent: Americans lacked 50 different bacterial types present in most Papua New Guineans.
highlights_snippet.sent: People in the US had far smaller collection of bacteria - called the 'microbiome' - than people from less sanitised Papua New Guinea .