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BBC News: Human gut microbes hold ‘second genome’.

”There is a huge diversity. We have about 100 times more microbial genes than human genes in the body. We also have 10 times more bacterial cells in our body than human cells.” There’s a fungus among us.  I tell you, if I had things to do over again, I’d go into bacterial research.

03/03/10 • 01:40 PM • Nature • Science • No Comments

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