Friday, May 30, 2008

Microbe Beat: A Huge Fan of Life at the Cellular Level

As Stephen Colbert admonishes the Martian microbes to remember 'who their friends are', I wonder how he would react if he knew that trillions of microbes live in our guts and other parts of our bodies, in a symbiotic relationship:




[Hat tip to Carl Zimmer]

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