Natural gut viruses join bacterial cousins in maintaining health and fighting infections
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 18:31
in Health & Medicine
Microbiologists at NYU Langone Medical Center say they have what may be the first strong evidence that the natural presence of viruses in the gut -- or what they call the 'virome' -- plays a health-maintenance and infection-fighting role similar to that of the intestinal bacteria that dwell there and make up the "microbiome."