Over 50% of Bacteria and Viruses inside Human Body are Unknown to Science
Aug 28, 2017 by News Staff / Source
A new survey of DNA fragments circulating in human blood suggests the bacteria and viruses living within us are vastly more diverse than previously known. In fact, more than 50% of that DNA has never been seen before.
Kowarsky et al discovered that the human body contains a vast and unexpected diversity of microbes, many of which have highly divergent relationships to the known tree of life. Image credit: Arek Socha.
“We found things that are related to things people have seen before, we found things that are divergent, and we found things that are completely novel,” said senior author Professor Stephen Quake, of Stanford University.
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/bacteria-viruses-human-body-unknown-to-science-05170.html
