Researchers just discovered a new class of life living inside humans

This was a good thread on Obelisks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42547489

Obelisks eh? I wish this article had more on the dimensions of these little critters. Was hoping to read that they’re of 1:4:9 proportions, and thus the given name was a sort of hat tip…

Cue Zarathustra

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.20.576352v1

I had no idea the Boy Genius Report website was still around!

Give yourself a fighting chance - eat more yoghurt.

Midi-chlorians?

"...new life forms are called Obelisks..."

A never-before-seen class?

Seems like experts would need to consider any "inheritance" issues that might have been unexpected . . .