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🧬 The River Beneath the City Knows What's Coming: We are only now, finally, beginning to listen.
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Flowing through our sewers, right now, is the largest known collection of bacterial predators ever catalogued. Phages that have spent billions of years evolving the precise molecular keys to unlock and destroy the very bacteria that are killing us.
The next generation of targeted phage therapy — the medicine that might replace antibiotics — could be waiting in the water we flush away every morning without a second thought.
We built the sewer to carry away what we no longer need. It turns out, the sewer may be carrying something we desperately need toward us.
The city's hidden river knows things. We are only now, finally, beginning to listen.
A genome-resolved view of the wastewater RNA virome
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