So, these guys discover that 99% of the things floating around in our blood are things we didn’t know were there.
Stop! We don’t know a single thing about them.
Wow. Now, that’s scary! Don’t you agree?
I thought these scientist people knew pretty much all about our blood and what was in it.
They don’t.
Here’s the story:
More than 99 percent of the microbes inside us are unknown to science, Stanford University, Science News, 23 Aug 2017.
"A new survey of DNA fragments circulating in human blood suggests our bodies contain vastly more diverse microbes than anyone previously understood. What's more, the overwhelming majority of those microbes have never been seen before, let alone classified and named, Stanford researchers report August 22 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."
"We found the gamut," said Stephen Quake, a professor of bioengineering and applied physics, a member of Stanford Bio-X and the paper's senior author. "We found things that are related to things people have seen before, we found things that are divergent, and we found things that are completely novel."
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