Saw this today on @MedicalTerms :
"A handful of bacteria!!!
This is the handprint of an 8-year-old boy covered in bacteria.
The boy came in from playing outside, and his mom decided to put his hand print inside a large Petri dish, incubated it for two days, and ended up with a colorful germ garden! "
Made me think of how we are more bacteria than cells ...
The number of bacteria living within the body of the average healthy adult human are estimated to outnumber human
cells 10 to 1. Changes in these microbial communities may be responsible for digestive disorders, skin diseases, gum
disease and even obesity. Despite their vital importance in human health and disease, these communities residing within
us remain largely unstudied and a concerted research effort needs to be made to better understand them, say
researchers June 3 at the 108th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080603085914.htm
