Ancient virus found hibernating in the human genome—and it might wake up

Ancient virus found hibernating in the human genome—and it might wake up | Ars Technica: "In the current era of microbiome research, we humans are already having to come to grips with the fact that ‘I’ is actually ‘we’. Instead of our bodies constituting a single life-form, we are each composed of complex and diverse ecosystems of microbes that have a profound influence on our existence."