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Plumbing the depths of women's bladders may shower researchers with viral gold.
In a wee survey, Loyola University Chicago researchers found the sac-like organ brimming with never-before-seen viruses that can kill and manipulate bacteria. Their findings, published this week in the Journal of Bacteriology, offer a first-pass catalogue of the rich diversity of bacteria-infecting viruses—aka "phages" or "bacteriophages"—in the bladder microbiome. The researchers suggest that further studies into the streaming viral content could one day lead to phage-based methods to void bacterial infections and identify disorders.
"The thought that there's not bacteria in urine is false," Catherine Putonti told Ars straight away. Putonti, a bioinformatics researcher and microbiologist at Loyola, is the leading author of the study. "The big picture is that there are a lot of viruses that are part of these bacterial communities as well."
With an early hold on what viruses are present in the bladder, the researchers are excited for more urinary deep dives to see if there's a core "bladder phageome" and what those viruses might be doing—or be able to do. "Now we can start asking questions," Putonti said.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:41PM (5 children)
God the Ars Technica staff have the most punchable faces and the cringiest bios. I bet they eat more shit than the staff of Der Spiegel. They're like Chihuahuas or pugs, animals people hate just for being alive.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @07:09PM (2 children)
https://arstechnica.com/author/jonathan-m-gitlin/ [arstechnica.com]
https://arstechnica.com/author/diana-gitig-2/ [arstechnica.com]
https://arstechnica.com/author/samuelaxon/ [arstechnica.com]
https://arstechnica.com/author/ronamadeo/ [arstechnica.com]
https://arstechnica.com/author/annalee/ [arstechnica.com]
https://arstechnica.com/author/laserboy/ [arstechnica.com]
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 04 2018, @07:43PM (1 child)
Laserboy quit drinking. Good for him! I've known so many people that were so strong and so powerful but they were unable to stop drinking.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 04 2018, @07:59PM
WHAT? Ars writers crampin' my style?!
This means war. I've played with more lasers than you have, laserboy. I'm gonna see to it that you get a CO₂ drive laser burst so far up your ass that your molars will vaporize before you have time to flinch.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @08:08PM (1 child)
Ars Technica
Ars used to be pretty decent on tech dissections. If you saw an Ars article from ~2000 it was usually worth reading. They slowly evolved into a semi click baity thing. The SCO and GIF things are what did it. They found it was more interesting to talk about politics and law than tech. The articles while usually written semi decently are usually very shallow. It used to be one of the first things I would hit every day. For example the recent CPU thing. Ars of old would have had diagrams about what is going on and a 20 page tome on why it is and how it works. The Ars of today screams about how doomed we are and very little on they whys and hows it works. I have been watching a lot of linus tech tips on youtube. It has more of the old school Ars feel for doing bonkers things. But that was just one aspect of what I miss about them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @02:36AM
They also have several folks who are rabidly anti-FOSS.
Very often not a useful, unbiased source of information on topics that interest me.
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