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40-year mystery solved: common gut virus targets bacteria
Original: 40-year mystery solved: Common gut virus infects bacteria, not human cells
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have resolved a decades-old question about a common virus found in the human gut, showing that it infects bacteria rather than human cells. The finding clarifies how the widespread microbe interacts with the body and could reshape understanding of gut health and disease.
Why now: A long-standing scientific mystery about a virus present in most people has just been resolved.
Washington University in St. Louis
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