‘Someone’s in my fruit cellar!’ –Henrietta
As newborns, we encounter our first microbes as we pass through the birth canal. Until that moment, we are 100 percent human.
Thereafter, we are, numerically speaking, 10 percent human, and 90 percent microbe.
Our microbiome contains at least 150 times more genes, collectively, than our human genome.
{ Mother Jones | Continue reading | via Sunday Reading/TNI }
photo { Matthu Placek }
