Staph meeting.

S. epidermidis is getting work done on your skin. This normal skin flora was shown to produce the molecule 6-HAP that works sorta like cytarabine to inhibit DNA polymerase. Indeed, mice colonized with 6-HAP-producing S. epidermidis developed fewer UV-induced cancers. More evidence that microbiomes are mega important. | Nakatsuji, Sci Adv 2018