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Jennifer DeBruyn

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Professor of Environmental Microbiology at the University of Tennessee
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After you die, bacteria harvest your body for the nutrients that help push daisies.

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When You Die, Your Necrobiome Recycles You

An environmental microbiologist explains why an individual's death is a new lease on life for an entire ecosystem.

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