Archive for the 'bacteria' Category

"Even human beings, Hugenholtz said, are subconsciously eavesdropping on chemical conversations between the inhabitants of our guts; this leads us to crave, say, potato chips when our microbes want salt. His eyes fell warily on his coffee. 'Do you think our stomach bacteria have trained us?'"

All of the bacteria in an adult human would fit into a half gallon jug, and surpass human cells in quantity by 10 times. Not only that, but some of our genes appear to be "bacterial in origin."