"Since humans depend on their microbiome for various essential services, including digestion, a person should really be considered a superorganism, microbiologists assert, consisting of his or her own cells and those of all the commensal bacteria. The bacterial cells also outnumber human cells by 10 to 1, meaning that if cells could vote, people would be a minority in their own body." --Bacteria Thrive in Inner Elbow; No Harm Done By NICHOLAS WADE Published: May 23, 2008 |
