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☆ Our toothbrushes are home to hundreds of new viruses. They could be the future of biotech.
  + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
A new study found hundreds of unique viruses called bacteriophage on toothbrushes and shower heads. A recent study found hundreds of viruses on samples from toothbrushes and shower heads, including many that have never been seen before, let alone examined. These are not viruses that are going to infect you, these are viruses that are potentially cool," Hartmann said. In the future, phage might be a rich source of biotech innovations like phage therapy, in the same way pharmaceuticals have developed medicines from plants or animals. Advertisement"There are a lot of things waiting to be discovered just under our noses or on our toothbrushes," Hartmann said.
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☆ Your showerhead and toothbrush are teeming with viruses. But don’t panic – these microbes could save lives
  + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
These viruses, however, are not the kind that will give you the common cold or flu (or worse). It’s amazing how much untapped biodiversity is all around us.”The study identified more than 600 viruses found in the samples taken from showerheads and toothbrushes. And for every bacterium, there’s potentially tens or hundreds or even thousands of viruses that infect it,” Hartmann said, noting that viruses mutate very quickly, too. She hypothesized that a bacterium in your mouth could transfer to your toothbrush, taking its viruses with it – and these could keep evolving on the toothbrush. “Microbes are everywhere all the time … We wouldn’t be able to digest our food or fend off infection if we didn’t have our microbes,” Hartmann said.
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