Wired News: People Are Human-Bacteria Hybrid

Wired News: People Are Human-Bacteria Hybrid

we are best viewed as walking "superorganisms," highly complex conglomerations of human cells, bacteria, fungi and viruses...we are somewhat outnumbered by the [microbes].

Nicholson's colleague, professor Ian Wilson from Astra Zeneca, believes the "human super-organism" concept "could have a huge impact on how we develop drugs, as individuals can have very different responses to drug metabolism and toxicity."

the human genome does not carry enough information on its own to determine key elements of our own biology.