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I think the connection between gut bacteria and human health is one of the great developing medical stories of the current time. It is almost on par with the d
by dzdt 6y ago
I think the connection between gut bacteria and human health is one of the great developing medical stories of the current time. It is almost on par with the development of the germ theory of disease. Scientists are aware that most of the cells in your body are not human, but the role of bacteria in your body's function is only slowly being uncovered.
- hutzlibu 6y ago" Scientists are aware that most of the cells in your body are not human" I guess that depends on the definition. How do you define a cell in the body as human and another cell as not human, when both are necessary for the human as a whole?
- 082349872349872 6y ago> How do you define a cell in the body as human and another cell as not human ... by their genomes?
- tcbawo 6y agoThe human genome is complicated. Mitochondrial DNA is distinct from nuclear DNA. For the most part, people only get mitochondrial DNA from their mothers.
- bergstromm466 6y ago> How do you define a cell in the body as human and another cell as not human, when both are necessary for the human as a whole? On that note, 'I' am in many ways a 'we'. I am an orchestra, a beautifully complex and rich interchange. As are you.