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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by ip26 on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:18PM (#33135146)
In a sense that’s very true. However the biggest wrinkle is that most of your cells share a single common ancestor cell. If your body is a community of microbes, it’s mostly a village of close relatives, not a symbiote like coral.
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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by jvanderbot on Saturday October 08, 2022 @04:03PM (#33135546)
Ah, I heard quite differently when including microbiome.

For example: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-43674270 "More than half your body is not human"

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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by pmayrgundter on Saturday October 08, 2022 @04:44PM (#33135848)
I believe that's incidental. There are abiotic mice which seem basically the same but require smth like 20% more calories in their diet for same metabolic level.
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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by lioeters on Sunday October 09, 2022 @12:18AM (#33138232)
> most of your cells share a single common ancestor cell

We call her LUCA, last universal common ancestor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor

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