News, New meaning to 'navel-gazing': Scientists study belly button bacteria. (better, North Carolina)

[JD59]

A group of scientists at North Carolina State University is taking navel-gazing to another level.

Jiri Hulcr and his colleagues at the Raleigh, N.C., school recently launched the Belly Button Biodiversity project as a fun way to interest people in microbiology and teach them about the bacteria that's found on skin.

The Body Odd - New meaning to 'navel-gazing': Scientists study belly button bacteria

[purehuman]

WOW! can't think of a better way to spend hundreds of thousands of dollers than studying the good ole belly-button.