Babies get their intestinal viruses in stages
A fascinating new paper by Guanxiang Liang and coworkers in Nature looks at how infants end up with a community of viruses in their guts: “The stepwise assem...
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Link: Zika virus set to infect up to a fourth of Puerto Ricans
Donald McNeil, Jr., reports in the New York Times on the impending spread of Zika virus into Puerto Rico:
Link: Evolutionary rate of viruses within our genomes
Carl Zimmer has a nice post today discussing the evolution of endogenous retroviruses in primates: “Our Inner Viruses: Forty Million Years In the Making”. Fr...