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← 30,000-year-old giant virus — let us reanimate

tcr! tcr! · Sep 9, 2015 at 11:58 pm

Frankenvirus emerges from Siberia's frozen wasteland

Frankenvirus emerges from Siberia’s frozen wasteland

Scientists said they will reanimate a 30,000-year-old giant virus unearthed in the frozen wastelands of Siberia, and warned climate change may awaken dangerous microscopic pathogens.

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keamoose · Sep 10, 2015 at 10:20 am

Neat. It’s interesting that the ice age viruses were so much more genetically complex. I guess being simpler and more specialized ended up being the more viable evolutionary path for viruses, which sounds like kind of the opposite of what humans did.

tcr! tcr! · Sep 10, 2015 at 2:06 pm

Humans always just gotta complicate the shit outta everything.