We can say that the human body is impressive, surprising and arousing, as well as disturbing in many ways. At any time, millions of tiny life form both in and outside your body visits. Now, researchers say that they discover a completely new class of life in our digestive system in the human body. These new forms of life are called Obelisks, and researchers say they first believe that they may be a virus.
However, after examining these forms of life a little deeper, researchers say that even though they resemble viruses in some ways, they find that they do not have sequences and even structural similarities with other known biological examples we encounter. In other words, even if these beings are viruses, they are completely new viruses that we have not encountered before.
However, researchers say that this new class of life in the human body is very weak. According to the study, at least 30,000 different Obelisk species have been defined so far. These were found in about 10 percent of the human microbiomas that the team studied on the pre -printing article. Researchers say this supports the idea that obelisks can contain colonists of these different microbiomas.
No one knows where they come from
It is still unknown where these obelisks come from. Researchers are still not sure of what is exactly what is “hosting” on these different genetic materials. Nevertheless, the entire new class seems to contain codes for a new protein class where researchers begin to call Oblins.
It seems that the instructions to build these proteins cover at least half of the genetic material in this new class of life. In addition, researchers, proteins coding ability to make obelisks viroids are very different from other known RNA rings, he said.
They do not seem to have the genetic structure they use to form protein shells known to have RNA viruses and allow them to live outside their cells. Researchers’ article is in the pre -printing server in Biorxiv, and more referee assessments should be made to determine the real value of these findings.