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What's So Important About Cave Microbes?

What could possibly be interesting about cave microbes? Some cave microbes appear to have fascinating defenses to fight off neighboring and rival microbes in order to survive. Caves are such a hard environments to live in these microbes actually produce chemicals to protect themselves. Humans may be able to use these chemicals to protect themselves from disease and to clean the air.

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