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What i have always found fascinating is how the biology of macroscopically large beings is so intimately intertwined at so many levels with that of the microsco
by throwaway32 15y ago
What i have always found fascinating is how the biology of macroscopically large beings is so intimately intertwined at so many levels with that of the microscopic. For instance, the average human contains/carries 10x more nonhuman cells than human ones.
- sosuke 15y agoDo you have a source for the nonhuman cell count? That would be an excellent water cooler topic to read up on.
- throwaway32 15y agoI managed to find this http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/dec96/840131722.Dv.r.html http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/dec96/840131722.Dv.r.ht... but unfortunately it also does not cite a source :)
- nitrogen 15y agoSee the second paragraph of this Wikipedia article: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Intestinal_flora https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Intestinal_fl...