100 Trillion Bacteria Make Up Human Microbiome & Biologists Say It's A Good Thing

The New York Times:

I can tell you the exact date that I began to think of myself in the first-person plural ? as a superorganism, that is, rather than a plain old individual human being. It happened on March 7. That?s when I opened my e-mail to find a huge, processor-choking file of charts and raw data from a laboratory located at the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado, Boulder. As part of a new citizen-science initiative called the American Gut project, the lab sequenced my microbiome ? that is, the genes not of ?me,? exactly, but of the several hundred microbial species with whom I share this body.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/18/bacteria-human-microbiome_n_3293348.html

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