People Are Human-Bacteria Hybrid
Oct. 17th, 2004 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupA surprising article from wired starts:
The surprising part is not that this is true, I would expect anyone with even a basic knowledge of biology to know this, but that scientists are only now getting around to investigating it. Have the tools for research not been heretofore available, has medicine and biology overlooked the whole human ecoshpere, or is it just another case of bad reporting? I gotta wonder.
Most of the cells in your body are not your own, nor are they even human. They are bacterial. [...] we are best viewed as walking "superorganisms," highly complex conglomerations of human, fungal, bacterial and viral cells.
The surprising part is not that this is true, I would expect anyone with even a basic knowledge of biology to know this, but that scientists are only now getting around to investigating it. Have the tools for research not been heretofore available, has medicine and biology overlooked the whole human ecoshpere, or is it just another case of bad reporting? I gotta wonder.
