30,000 Year Old Virus Revived (Don't These People Ever Watch Sci-Fi Movies?)

[Scylla]

Sounds scary...

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-giant-virus-revived-20140302,0,4662287.story#axzz2uw18b9D3

[Oxytropidoceras]

Below are some additional articles:

Out of Siberian Ice, a Virus Revived, Time Magazine, March 3, 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/science/out-of-siberian-ice-a-virus-revived.html?rref=science&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Science&pgtype=article

30,000-year-old giant virus 'comes back to life' by Rebecca Morelle,

BBC News, March 4, 2014, http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26387276

30,000 year-old giant virus found in Siberia, Science Daily

March 4, 2014, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140304071433.htm

the paper is:

Legendre, M., J. Bartoli, L. Shmakova, S. Jeudy, K. Labadie,

A. Adrait, M. Lescot,O. Poirot, L. Bertaux, C. Bruley, Y.

Couté, E. Rivkina, C. Abergel, and J.-M. Claverie, 2014,

Thirty-thousand-year-old distant relative of giant icosahedral

DNA viruses with a pandoravirus morphology. Proceedings of

the National Academy of Sciences. published ahead of print

March 4, 2014, http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/02/26/1320670111

Yours,

Paul H.

[Scylla]

thanks Paul

[Fossildude19]

And thus, ... the Zombie Apocalypse begins.

Thanks for the nightmares, guys...

And the links.

Regards,