Unlocking knowledge about the vast and varied collection of viruses that live in and on our bodies is the goal of a $20 ...

You, my friend, are what scientists call a "holobiont"- an organism made up of human cells and the multiplicity of ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) hopes to change that with an ambitious project called the Human Virome Program. It seeks to map the many viruses that are part of the body’s ecosystem, similar ...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $20.6 million grant over five years to establish one of five Human Virome Characterization Centers, or HVCCs, leveraging UCLA leadership and the ...

They find that many types of bacteriophages are present and that each individual’s virome is stable over time and different from that of the other subjects. This study “generates an important database ...

These methods will also allow us to characterize and better understand the human virome and its role in human health and disease. Algorithmic approach to novel virus discovery. Clinical specimens ...

Caltech has joined a major program through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help characterize the trillions of viruses that live harmlessly ...

Recently, our labs have received significant NIH funding through the Human Virome Program (https://commonfund.nih.gov/humanvirome) to study how humans respond ...