Bizarre Obelisk Shaped RNA Bits Disovered in Human Gut By Stanford Scientists
Scientists at Stanford University have discovered a new “viruslike entity” that is shaped like obelisks.’
Science Magazine reported that a group of scientists from Stanford University unearthed obelisk-shaped viruslike entities that dwell in the human gut and mouth.
According to the team at Stanford, the “obelisks” have genomes that consist of loops of RNA, and sequences belonging to them have been discovered all around the globe.
Gizmodo reported the scientists uncovered almost 30,000 of these special sequences by “analyzing databases that categorized the active genes of gut and mouth microbes, using an algorithm to look for unknown genetic sequences that could represent independent viroid-like loops of RNA.”
In human guts a @Stanford research team found,
