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Message 1392522 - Posted: 19 Jul 2013, 19:13:22 UTC

Giant viruses open Pandora's box

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Message 1392549 - Posted: 19 Jul 2013, 20:59:57 UTC - in response to Message 1392522.  

Thanks for that one. Very interesting.


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Message 1392643 - Posted: 20 Jul 2013, 0:21:50 UTC

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Message 1392687 - Posted: 20 Jul 2013, 1:45:43 UTC - in response to Message 1392643.  

The pandoravirus, as they’ve dubbed it, is 1,000 times bigger than the flu virus by volume and has nearly 200 times as many genes — 2,556 all told.

Scary.

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Message 1392913 - Posted: 20 Jul 2013, 17:36:19 UTC

A little off topic perhaps---where do they come from, viruses that is.

Deep space and hitch a ride here on a rock?
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Message 1393085 - Posted: 21 Jul 2013, 0:50:07 UTC - in response to Message 1392913.  

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Message 1393262 - Posted: 21 Jul 2013, 15:20:00 UTC

That John Carter formerly of Earth!

Just going to another planet can kill us all!
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Message 1393440 - Posted: 22 Jul 2013, 1:51:20 UTC

Wouldn't a virus that big have a hard time penetrating our cells and infecting us?
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Message 1393679 - Posted: 22 Jul 2013, 18:11:46 UTC - in response to Message 1393440.  

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Message 1393718 - Posted: 22 Jul 2013, 20:58:14 UTC - in response to Message 1393440.  

Wouldn't a virus that big have a hard time penetrating our cells and infecting us?

I would think so. But Id reckon stranger things have happened.
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Message 1393719 - Posted: 22 Jul 2013, 20:58:33 UTC - in response to Message 1393679.  

update.


Virus Genome Finding Points To New Branch In Tree Of Life


Thanks for the link. ;-)
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