{"id":40640,"date":"2024-07-27T13:33:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T18:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40640"},"modified":"2024-07-27T13:33:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T18:33:51","slug":"word-of-the-day-975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/07\/27\/word-of-the-day-975\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Virome<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The human body hosts vast microbial communities, termed the microbiome. Less well known is the fact that the human body also hosts vast numbers of different viruses, collectively termed the \u2018virome\u2019. Viruses are believed to be the most abundant and diverse biological entities on our planet, with an estimated 10<sup>31<\/sup> particles on Earth. The human virome is similarly vast and complex, consisting of approximately 10<sup>13<\/sup> particles per human individual, with great heterogeneity.<em> [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41579-021-00536-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The human virome: assembly, composition and host interactions<\/a>,&#8221; Guanxiang Liang &amp; Frederic D. Bushman,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41579-021-00536-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>nature reviews\/microbiology<\/strong><\/a><em>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26334991-200-the-vital-viruses-that-shape-your-microbiome-and-your-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The vital viruses that shape your microbiome and your health<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Linda Geddes, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (13 July 2024, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat is interesting about bacteriophages and other viruses in the gut is that every person has their own unique set, with almost no overlap between different people,\u201d says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/quadram.ac.uk\/people\/evelien-adriaenssens\/\">Evelien Adriaenssens<\/a>\u00a0at the Quadram Institute in Norwich, UK. One of her interests is understanding where these viruses come from, which she is investigating by analysing stool samples from women and their newborn infants and following them over time. \u201cWhat we see is that healthy infants are born without a noticeable virome, then,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32461640\/\">in the first couple of weeks of life, they acquire one<\/a>, together with the bacteria and all of the other components of the microbiome,\u201d says Adriaenssens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fascinating stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virome: The human body hosts vast microbial communities, termed the microbiome. Less well known is the fact that the human body also hosts vast numbers of different viruses, collectively termed the \u2018virome\u2019. Viruses are believed to be the most abundant and diverse biological entities on our planet, with an estimated \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/07\/27\/word-of-the-day-975\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40641,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40640\/revisions\/40641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}