Hookworms successfully prevent type 2 diabetes in human trialono@lemmy.ca to Science@beehaw.org – 116 points – 1 years agonewatlas.com50Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsSo possibly, in a thousand years or so, we could have parasites that improve our lives in every conceivable way. Just need to eat an egg salad sandwich from a truckstop restroom coin op machine. Edit: I'm a little busy at work, so maybe I read the replies wrong - but this was a Futurama reference.Why wait? You can do that today!At.that point wouldn't they be symbiotes?Wouldn't it be a symbiote and not a parasite if it benefits us?Let me know when we get translator microbes.serious: i love truck stop egg salad sandwiches. don’t tempt me!
So possibly, in a thousand years or so, we could have parasites that improve our lives in every conceivable way. Just need to eat an egg salad sandwich from a truckstop restroom coin op machine. Edit: I'm a little busy at work, so maybe I read the replies wrong - but this was a Futurama reference.Why wait? You can do that today!At.that point wouldn't they be symbiotes?Wouldn't it be a symbiote and not a parasite if it benefits us?Let me know when we get translator microbes.serious: i love truck stop egg salad sandwiches. don’t tempt me!
So possibly, in a thousand years or so, we could have parasites that improve our lives in every conceivable way.
Just need to eat an egg salad sandwich from a truckstop restroom coin op machine.
Edit: I'm a little busy at work, so maybe I read the replies wrong - but this was a Futurama reference.
Why wait? You can do that today!
At.that point wouldn't they be symbiotes?
Wouldn't it be a symbiote and not a parasite if it benefits us?
Let me know when we get translator microbes.
serious: i love truck stop egg salad sandwiches. don’t tempt me!