By the way, hunting for these giant viruses would be an awesome and very accessible DIYbio project!
-- They're essentially just growing amoebas in a Petri dish, and then looking for viruses that will kill the amoebas. Many of those amoeba killing viruses turn out to be giant viruses. They're chock full of genes we've never seen anywhere before, *and* you can see them with a good light microscope!
Patrik
On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 3:09:32 PM UTC-8, John Griessen wrote:
On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 3:09:32 PM UTC-8, John Griessen wrote:
Why do you think this ancient virus stayed viable?
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/03/giant-virus-revived- after-more-30000-years?et_cid= 3803146&et_rid=54736597& location=top
Did it maybe have so much redundant DNA that it is hard to really kill it?
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