For billions of years, viruses and bacteria have been locked in a never-ending arm’s race, and it has caused one predator to evolve “a monster of a tail”. The unique bacteria-devouring virus, or bacteriophage,...
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Ancient ‘Zombie’ Virus Revived Almost 50,000 Years Later Is Still Infectious : ScienceAlert
From a horror movie plot to real life: Scientists have revived ancient ‘zombie’ viruses from permafrost and discovered they could still infect living single-celled amoebae. The chances of these viruses infecting animals or humans...
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Black Swans Could Be Entirely Wiped Out by a Single Virus, Scientists Warn : ScienceAlert
The genetic make-up of the iconic Australian black swan (Cygnus atratus) leaves it extremely vulnerable to viruses such as avian flu, research from the University of Queensland reports. The threat is thought to be...
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COVID Autopsies Reveal The Virus Spreading Through The ‘Entire Body’ : ScienceAlert
COVID-19 is defined as a respiratory infection, but the effects of the novel coronavirus are certainly not confined to any one organ. Dozens of recent autopsies show persistent evidence of SARS-CoV-2 throughout the body,...
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Scientists Record a Virus ‘Prowling’ Cells in Search of a Way Inside : ScienceAlert
For the first time, scientists have been able to make a three-dimensional, real-time recording of the moment a virus hijacks a cell, giving us a deeper level of understanding of how infections take hold...
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New Hybrid Virus Discovered as Flu And RSV Fuse Into Single Pathogen : ScienceAlert
Researchers have witnessed two viruses – influenza A and respiratory syncytial virus – fuse together to form a single, hybrid virus. While competition between viruses has been researched in some detail, this new finding...
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