How viruses and bacteria balance each other in the gut microbiome

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The adage ‘all things in moderation’ applies not to just to food and drink, but also to the legions of bacteria inside our guts helping us digest that food and drink. It turns out the rule may also extend to the lesser understood bacteriophages, which are viruses that infect the bacteria living inside us. Like Russian nesting dolls, our bodies host close to 100 trillion bacterial cells that make up our microbiomes — and those bacterial cells have their own inhabitants. “We’re appreciating more and more that the most abundant microbial entities in the human gut are actually viruses,” says …read more

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