Why Does This Matter? (VIDEO)

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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A newly discovered family of viruses appears to play a major role in killing marine bacteria and maintaining the ocean's ecology. Preliminary evidence suggests that related bacterial viruses also occur in the human gut.

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Albert Einstein College of medicine

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