Comment by ProjectArcturis
3 years ago
Many of the bacteria are certainly necessary. Healthy gut flora is very important. The viruses probably not.
3 years ago
Many of the bacteria are certainly necessary. Healthy gut flora is very important. The viruses probably not.
Without viral help, none of us would be here to have this conversation.
Retroviruses control gene expression in pregnancy - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6177113/
I had never heard of endogenous retroviruses before! They raise the question: if a virus writes itself into the genome, is it even a virus anymore?