12 Ways Bacteria Improves Our Lives, From Hard Drives to Highrises

Photo by kaibara87 via Flickr Creative Commons When we think of bacteria, we usually think about the illness it can cause and our need to get rid of it. However, bacteria play enormously positive roles in our lives without us even thinking twice about it. As Bonnie Bassler of Princeton University put it in a TED talk , “When I look at you, I think of you as 1 or 10 percent human and either 90 or 99 percent bacterial.” And back in May, we found out about research that sho… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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12 Ways Bacteria Improves Our Lives, From Hard Drives to Highrises

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