But I haven’t been able to find anything concrete about what this facility was. From my experience, they’re not creatures with “no microorganisms at all” but just “extremely controlled microorganisms” and germ free mice often lack, for example, things like gut fauna. It’s not a pleasant life for the mice.
What exactly did they mean by “germ-free”? Over half the cells in our bodies are non-human microbes.
I’m guessing they meant this:
But I haven’t been able to find anything concrete about what this facility was. From my experience, they’re not creatures with “no microorganisms at all” but just “extremely controlled microorganisms” and germ free mice often lack, for example, things like gut fauna. It’s not a pleasant life for the mice.
Did we know that in 1950?
He’s in some kind of air tight suit by the looks of it