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I am an ecosystem
If the human body contains about 100 trillion cells, how many of these are human cells? All of them? Not quite. Not even close. Only 10 trillion, or about 10 percent, are human cells. The rest are microbes. That’s right: … Continue reading
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Tagged antibiotics, bacteria, Bonnie Bassler, community, microbes, microbial, microbial communities, microbiology, Noah Fierer, science
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