Microbes contribute more genes resp'ble for human survival than humans own genes

[Darren Dirt]

...and other fascinating surprises discovered by the HMP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Microbiome_Project#Milestones

https://commonfund.nih.gov/hmp/programhighlights


^ Far less publicly discussed, and yet far more right-away-practical** learnings, compared to the Human Genome Project.


Fox Mulder was right, we are not alone.
The "aliens" are just really @%&#ing small.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_microbiota




**considering so much of modern diet is vastly different than what hundreds of years has been the norm, who knows what kind of messing around we are doing in our gut and elsewhere? But we don't have to wait for "Microbiome Sequencers" to be invented to change things -- cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_flora -- once unbalances are discovered and identified and quantified... in theory #InPracticeWeAreLazyTho