MICROBES - BACTERIA SHARE DEFENSE WEAPONS WITH WEAKER COMPANIONS

Bacteria help each other defeat antibiotics by sharing weaponry with weaker members.

 

They plot, they 'think', they strategize, they evolve - These tiny things can defeat the most powerful human army.

 

New study reveals that the more antibiotic resistant cells within a bacterial population produce and share small molecules with less resistant cells, making them more resistant to antibiotic killing. 

 

This reveals not only communication between bacteria, but intelligent communication with a strategic aim of defeating antibiotic weaponry.  This is nothing less than amazing. 

Read more here -  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130704095130.htm

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While they are often our enemies, microbes can also be our allies and friends - 90% of our body's cells are microbes.

Our bodies are 90% microbial and 10% human. Human cells are larger so we look human, but in numbers alone microbes outnumber our human component 9 to 1! - Links to pictures here - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/05/psychology-issues-who-is-in-charge-of.html


Amazing pictures of microbes inside the human body - Worth seeing!  - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2335596/Photographs-reveal-alien-planet-No--breathtaking-animated-simulations-world-HUMAN-BODY.html

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