Brian Roemmele Retweeted Brian Roemmele
You are ~43% human cells the rest is bacteria, viruses, fungi, archaea. They account for ~5% of our body mass. However they make up about half of our body's waste. Biobanking this diversity is perhaps one of the most important goals for long term human survival.https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1047976003627184128 …
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This is the most important Biobank:
“There has been a progressive decline in human gut microbiota diversity with industrialization. Most urgently, we need to preserve the diversity of ancestral microbes from globally diverse human populations”
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6410/33 …
3:39 PM - 4 Oct 2018
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