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At the heart of the human microbiome, a team of researchers from Stanford University has recently made a rather surprising discovery: the presence of a class of unprecedented...
Stanford University scientists say they’ve discovered virus-like agents in the body that are unlike anything seen before.
Scientists have discovered mysterious virus-like ‘obelisks’ in the human gut and mouth. These tiny structures fall into the viroid class and seem to hang out inside of certain strains of bacteria, though not always.
E-Mail From the perspective of A. Murat Eren, PhD, the mouth is the perfect place to study microbial communities. "Not only is it the beginning of the GI tract, but it's also a very special and small environment that's microbially diverse enough that we can really start to answer interesting questions about microbiomes and their evolution," said Eren, an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago. "There's a surprising amount of site specificity, in that you find defined patterns of microbes in different areas of the mouth -- the microbes associated with...