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This is pretty wild...they have been studying things with high powered microscopes for how many years and nobody ever noticed these??
Apparently they are bits of genetic material that have no detectable sequences or even structural similarities to other biological agents...
They are roughly 1000 nucleotide structures of RNA which are very tiny and likely why they have gone undetected for so long.
Some think they more closely resemble RNA Plasmids than viruses although they have not been able to determine or define the impacts of these 'Obelisks' on the host bacterial cells.
Apparently they are bits of genetic material that have no detectable sequences or even structural similarities to other biological agents...
They are roughly 1000 nucleotide structures of RNA which are very tiny and likely why they have gone undetected for so long.
Some think they more closely resemble RNA Plasmids than viruses although they have not been able to determine or define the impacts of these 'Obelisks' on the host bacterial cells.