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title: "2 Microbial Partners Quotes by 1 author"
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> [“The world around us is a gigantic reservoir of potential microbial partners. Every mouthful could bring in new microbes that digest a previously unbreakable part of our meals, or that detoxify the poisons in a previously inedible food, or that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-yong/the-world-around-us-is-a-gigantic-reservoir-of-potential-microbial/)

[Ed Yong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-yong/)

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> [“We have already seen how pliable the microbiome can be. It can change with a touch, with a meal, with a parasitic incursion or a dose of medicine, or simply with the passage of time. It is a dynamic entity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-yong/we-have-already-seen-how-pliable-the-microbiome-can-be-it-can-change/)

[Ed Yong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-yong/)

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