Strange bacteria trapped in Neanderthals' teeth may one day help researchers develop novel antibiotics, according to a study published May 4 in the journal Science, which used dental plaque from ancient and modern humans to investigate the evolution of mouth microbes.
Every person has their own oral microbiome — a set of hundreds of species of microscopic organisms that colonize our mouths. With hundreds of different species of microorganisms at any given time, the oral microbiome is large and diverse, and it varies based on a person's lived environment.
