Unlocking the diversity of microbial communities may benefit biofuel production, global carbon storage, and bioremediation.
Scientists estimate that there are approximately 4 × 1030 microbes living on the planet. To put this number into perspective, there are 4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 microbes living on the planet compared to a mere 6,793,220,750 humans.
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