You, my friend, are what scientists call a “holobiont”— an organism made up of human cells and the multiplicity of microscopic species living inside you and on your body. Many of these microorganisms ...

A major new effort at Weill Cornell Medicine seeks to catalog the normal human virome, the immense ecosystem of viruses that lives in and on us. The work, part of a multi-institution collaboration ...

The NIH's Human Virome Program aims to fill the great gap in our knowledge about viruses that "call us home". The main focus is on beneficial viruses that are persistent in the human body, not on ...

Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. —Augustus De Morgan The thirty trillion bacteria living in your gut? Old news. As we ...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $20.6 million grant over five years to establish one of five Human Virome Characterization Centers, or HVCCs, leveraging UCLA leadership and the ...

Although it well known that the human gut contains a large and diverse array of bacteriophages, a functional understanding of the phage–host interactions is limited. This is, in part, due to a lack of ...

Under the Human Virome Program, launched last year by the NIH Common Fund, the NIH anticipates funding five research centers seeking to characterize the human virome across the lifespan through ...

(via Kurzgesagt) You’ve got trillions of viruses inside you – right now! But these aren’t the viruses you fear. Some of them are your body’s secret protectors, keeping deadly bacteria in check and ...