Editor’s note: researchers were surprised recently when an unexpected and rather novel biological structure was found inside the cells of the human gut. Nicknamed “obelisks” due to their shape, these […]
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Viruses in Polar Oceans Follow Rhythms Of Earth’s Seas
Viruses in the cold waters of the Arctic are strongly seasonal and are also detected in the Antarctic.
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Desert Lichen Offers New Evidence For The Possibility Of Life On Other Planets
Lichen from the Mojave Desert can survive, and replicate, under levels of extreme solar radiation found on Earth-like planets in other solar systems.
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Virolithopanspermia: Might Viruses Be Transported In Rocks Through Space?
Material can apparently move between planets, at least on rare occasions. For example, meteorites have been found on Earth that appear to have originated on Mars, or even outside our […]
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230 New Giant Viruses Discovered That Shape Earth’s Oceans
Giant viruses play a role in the survival of single-celled marine organisms called protists. These include algae, amoeba, and flagellates, that form the base of ocean food webs. And since […]
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Viral Activity In Lake Analogs Of Anoxic Early Earth Oceans
Background Meromictic lakes, with their stratified water columns, are modern analogs for ancient euxinic (anoxic and sulfidic) oceans, where anaerobic sulfur-oxidizing purple and green sulfur bacteria (PSB and GSB) dominated […]
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New Giant Virus Jyvaskylavirus Isolated In Finland
For the first time in Finland, researchers at the Nanoscience Center in University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have isolated a giant virus, which was named Jyvaskylavirus. The discovery shows that giant […]
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Cosmic Radiation From A Supernova Altered Virus Evolution In Africa, Study Proposes
Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. Over 400 miles long, it is the continent’s deepest lake and accounts for 16% of the world’s available freshwater. […]
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Offworld Life Science: Brain Organoids Grown In Microgravity
Did you know some viruses don’t cause illness and can instead be used to treat disease? Biotechnology startup Axonis Therapeutics reprogrammed a virus to carry a novel gene therapy to […]
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AI Discovers Over 160,000 New Virus Species On Earth
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to reveal details of a diverse and fundamental branch of life living right under our feet and in every corner of the globe.