'Obelisks', a new class of life living inside humans
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#2"...new life forms are called Obelisks..."
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#3Midi-chlorians?
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#4Give yourself a fighting chance - eat more yoghurt.
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#5I had no idea the Boy Genius Report website was still around!
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#7Obelisks eh? I wish this article had more on the dimensions of these little critters. Was hoping to read that they’re of 1:4:9 proportions, and thus the given name was a sort of hat tip…
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#8This was a good thread on Obelisks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42547489
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#9A never-before-seen class?
Seems like experts would need to consider any "inheritance" issues that might have been unexpected . . .
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#10Although the title says "just discovered", obelisks were discovered a year ago. Obelisks are RNA elements inside bacteria inside humans. Here are some links for more information:
The publication in Cell: https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(24)01091-2
The preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.20.576352v1
An article about obelisks in Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/it-s-insane-new-viru...
An article in Derek Lowe's popular "In the Pipeline": https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/what-s-obelisk-any...