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“我”是“我们”

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         我们人类的基因组有8%以上根本不是人类的,而是来自古老的病毒的(More than eight percent of the human genome is not human at allits from viruses),因此“我”实际上是“我们(我和病毒们)”。而且它们还有可能被“唤醒”。

 

Ancient virus found hibernating in the human genome-and it might wake up

In the current era of microbiome research, us humans are already having to come to grips with the fact that ‘I’ is actually ‘we’. Instead of our bodies constituting a single life-form, we are each comprised of complex and diverse ecosystems of microbes that have a profound influence on our existence. Our health and wellbeing is not just determined by what our own cells do, but what our trillions of invisible inhabitants do, too. And the genetic blueprints that govern our biology are partly carried in those microbial inhabitants, as well as in our own cells. But, as it happens, the DNA in our own cells isn’t solely ours, either. More than eight percent of the human genome is not human at all-it’s

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  1. A recent study revealed 19 new pieces of non-human DNA inside modern humans’genomes. The March 22 finding comes after researchers from Tufts and University of Michigan Medical School examined 2,500 people.

  2. Our DNA less 'human' than scientists previously thought!
    IANS India Private Limited via Yahoo! Singapore NewsMar 23 01:22 AM

    New York, March 23 (IANS) A significant portion of what we think of as our " human" DNA actually came from viruses, and a new discovery suggests that our DNA is even lesshuman than scientists previously thought. Nineteen new pieces of non- human DNA -- left by viruses that first infected our ancestors hundreds of thousands of years ago -- have just been found, lurking between our own genes. In...

  3. Brooks Hays ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 22 (UPI) -- Researchers have discovered 19 unique fragments and strands of ancient viral DNA in the genomes of modern humans.

 

 



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