More than 54,000 viruses living in human poop, 92% of which unknown to scientists
Posted onResearch published in Nature Microbiology has identified 54,118 species of virus living in the human gut – 92 per cent of which were previously unknown. But as we and our colleagues from the Joint Genome Institute and Stanford University in California found, the great majority of these were bacteriophages, or “phages” for short. These viruses […]