[Rockhounds] 15, 000 year-old viruses reported from Tibetan glacier

[Paul]

Ancient viruses found in Tibetan glacier
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkebx9/scientists-found-ancient-never-before-seen-viruses-in-a-glacier?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/ancient-viruses-found-tibetan-glacier
https://www.livescience.com/unknown-viruses-discovered-tibetan-glacier.html

Another article is:
Giant Virus Resurrected from Permafrost After 30,000 Years
By Tia Ghose March 03, 2014
https://www.livescience.com/43800-giant-virus-found-permafrost.html

The unreviewed paper is:

Zhi-Ping Zhong, Natalie E. Solonenko, Yueh-Fen Li, Maria C. Gazitúa,
Simon Roux, Mary E. Davis, James L. Van Etten, Ellen
Mosley-Thompson, Virginia I. Rich, Matthew B. Sullivan, Lonnie G.
Thompson, ip, Glacier ice archives fifteen-thousand-year-old viruses
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.03.894675
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.03.894675v1.full

Defrosting Ancient Microbes by Scott Rogers and John D. Castello
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50199089-defrosting-ancient-microbes

I have ask myself: "What can go wrong?"

Yours,

Paul H.