microbiome

Here’s a video of Doom running on gut bacteria, proving you really can play the game on anything

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An MIT biotechnology researcher was able to run the iconic computer game Loss using real gut bacteria. Lauren Ramlan didn't run the game on a digital simulation of bacteria, but turned real bacteria into pixels to display the 30-year-old FPS, as reported Paper-stone pump action shotgun. Specifically, Ramlan created a display inside a cell wall … Read more

Scientists discover weird virus-like ‘obelisks’ in the human gut and mouth

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We may have an adequate understanding of the human body to the extent that, well, we invented aspirin and sequenced the genome, but researchers are still discovering new things about the humble homo sapien. Concrete example ? Scientists which hangs around in the human intestine and mouth. Researchers call these virus-like structures “obelisks,” due to … Read more