Each human gut has a viral “fingerprint”

Tuesday, August 25, 2020 - 09:10 in Biology & Nature

Each person’s gut virus composition is as unique as a fingerprint, according to the first study to assemble a comprehensive database of viral populations in the human digestive system. An analysis of viruses in the guts of healthy Westerners also showed that dips and peaks in the diversity of virus types between childhood and old […]

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