{
  "id": 17115094,
  "title": "Common gut virus infects bacteria—not human cells",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/common-gut-virus-infects-bacteria-not-human-cells",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-29T20:00:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-common-gut-virus-infects-bacteria.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Thriving alongside trillions of bacteria in the human digestive tract is a vast population of viruses. Ever since one such denizen of the gut microbiome, known as picobirnavirus, was first spotted decades ago, researchers thought it directly infected human tissue and played a role in gastrointestinal illness. But researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}