Study: People Emit a "Germ Cloud" of Bacteria As Unique As a Fingerprint

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @09:27PM from the I-got-your-smell dept.

An anonymous reader writes: According to a new study, we are all surrounded by a personal "germ cloud" as unique as a fingerprint. Lead author of the study Dr James Meadow says: "We expected that we would be able to detect the human microbiome in the air around a person, but we were surprised to find that we could identify most of the occupants just by sampling their microbial cloud. Our results confirm that an occupied space is microbially distinct from an unoccupied one, and demonstrate for the first time that individuals release their own personalized microbial cloud." The findings were published today in the journal PeerJ.

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Pig-Pen by The+Grim+Reefer · 2015-09-22 21:41 · Score: 5, Funny

So we're all just like Pig-Pen from the Peanuts cartoon strips.
Ha, so it turns out by Rik+Sweeney · 2015-09-22 21:55 · Score: 4, Funny

6 year olds are right after all, there IS such a thing as cooties.

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Re:Follow up will be interesting. by Mr+D+from+63 · 2015-09-23 00:25 · Score: 3, Funny

Does this "fingerprint" bacterial cloud change with time?
This method of identification can be defeated by eating a taco.
The real iCloud by rvw · 2015-09-23 00:48 · Score: 3, Funny

Something tells me that this is the real iCloud. Now we need an app to connect to it!