Every Man Is an Island (of Bacteria)

w1z4rd

w1z4rd

Karmic Sangoma
Joined
Jan 17, 2005
Messages
52,146
Reaction score
8,340
Location
127.0.0.1
"There are ten times more bacterial cells in our body than our own cells. Most of them are located in our guts, and they affect our well-being in many ways. A group at Washington University has recently reported that although our gut microbes perform similar functions, it appears that different people have completely different compositions of gut bacteria: every man is an island, a unique microbial ecosystem composed of completely different species. One conclusion is that the whole division of bacteria into species may well be over-used in biomedicine."
Click to expand...
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/27/2241227
 
Bacteria is the keystone life form to all life on this planet. What I find pretty interesting is that there is more life below ground.. than above ground. If all life had to be moved from below ground to above ground it would cover the whole earth to a depth of 150 meters.

Russians drilling down km`s into the ground have found bacteria no matter how deep they dig... and were not even talking about the new buggers... were talking old school bacteria that breath iron and poo chlorine or something insane like that.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X