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Your Feces Is a Wonderland of Viruses

Posted by timothy on from the and-so-can-you dept.

sciencehabit writes "Thanks to an anlaysis of fecal samples from four sets of Missouri-born female identical twins and their mothers, researchers have concluded that human guts harbor viruses as unique as the people they inhabit; the viral lineup differs even between identical twins. Even more surprising? These viruses may be doing good work inside of us."

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  1. Evolution by dward90 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From my understanding of evolution, I think it would be more surprising if something we all have inside of us was doing something bad.

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