"Recently, a team of researchers stumbled upon strange entities, or obelisks, living inside of human bodies that had escaped notice until now.

What researchers uncovered are entities they've chosen to call “obelisks.” They do not resemble typical life forms & their name comes from distinctive shape.

Unlike standard viruses, they do not appear to encode protein shells. These differences suggest that life’s definitions might need some rethinking.

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It is not just a single type of obelisk. Thousands of unique varieties have turned up when scientists comb through genetic datasets.

Obelisks don't fit neatly into existing categories. Not standard viruses, classic bacteria, & not exactly viroids. Discovery hints we may be missing entire classes of RNA-based life challenging current textbooks. This complicates efforts to catalog & understand the full range of microbial life."

https://www.earth.com/news/scientists-find-new-forms-of-life-inside-humans-rna-carriers-obelisks/

https://bsky.app/profile/johnhatchard.bsky.social/post/3ldubsiail62g

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/s/AX3pVnfU25

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