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Your Skin's Secret Gardeners: Meet the Archaea That Live on Your Face

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We've always known about bacteria on skin—they're the well-studied neighbors everyone talks about. These newly characterized archaea are the quiet roommates you never knew you had, silently doing their own thing.

This means our understanding of skin health and the natural microbiome is incomplete, and that could reshape how we think about skin disease and even basic hygiene.

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