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Gene experts said that we are not entirely human. “We are somehow like an amalgam,” said one molecular biologist, “a mix of bacteria and human cells. There are some estimates that say 90 percent of the cells in our body are actually bacteria.”

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Gene experts said that we are not entirely human. “We are somehow like an amalgam,” said one molecular biologist, “a mix of bacteria and human cells. There are some estimates that say 90 percent of the cells in our body are actually bacteria.”

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