Monday, March 19, 2012

Genetic Variation in Human Gut Viruses Could Be Raw Material for Inner Evolution

Refernce:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120319134212.htm\

Summary:
 A growing body of evidence underscores the importance of human gut bacteria in modulating human health, metabolism, and disease. Yet bacteria are only part of the story. Viruses that infect those bacteria also shape who we are. Frederic D. Bushman, PhD, professor of Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, led a study published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that sequenced the DNA of viruses -- the virome -- present in the gut of healthy people.

Impact:
Bacteria could lead to many other diseases and sicknesses to the human race.

Critique:
Find what bacteria is capable of, and how we can stop it without anitbiotics, inn ammore healthier way.

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