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[Still Waters]

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"When I get up from my chair, ten times more bacterial cells get up than human ones," says Dr Bruce Birren.

He is one of the hundreds of US scientists involved in the world's most extensive map of the microbes that live in and on us.

The Human Microbiome Project has catalogued the genetic identity of many bacteria, viruses and other organisms that live in intimate contact with us.

They are not germs that need eliminating but a fundamental part of what makes us human, researchers say.

Yet until recently, little was known about the identity of trillions of the microbes populating our bodies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...health-18422288

[ThickasaBrick]

Symbiosis is great, just a good time. It would be exciting if the scientists could figure out if/how good micro-organisms can keep the bad ones away. Instead of having man-made "drugs" to deal with disease you could just take a bacteria pill and re-establish the balance which is required for a healthy human.