Scientists Revive 48,500-year-old Viruses From Siberian Permafrost

[Oxytropidoceras]

Scientists Revived Ancient 'Zombie Viruses' Frozen For Eons in Siberia

By David Nield, ScienceAlert, Novmber 25, 2022

 

The paper is:

 

Alempic, J.M., Lartigue, A., Goncharov, A.E., Grosse, G., Strauss, J., 

Tikhonov, A.N., Fedorov, A.N., Poirot, O., Legendre, M., Santini, S. 

and Abergel, C., 2022. An update on eukaryotic viruses revived from 

ancient permafrost. bioRxiv.

 

PDF of preprint of paper

 

An earlier article is:

 

Scientists Are Reawakening a 'Giant Virus' Frozen in The Siberian Wilderness

By Peter Dockrill, ScienceAlert September 9, 2015

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

Edited November 30, 2022 by Oxytropidoceras
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[Tidgy's Dad]

Quite scary to think these slumbering viruses could make a comeback. 

As if we haven't got enough of 'em already. 

[Fossildude19]

This is EXACTLY how the zombie apocalypse begins.   

[piranha]

8 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

This is EXACTLY how the zombie apocalypse begins.