[Rockhounds] Scientists Revive 48, 500-year old Viruses Frozen in Siberian Permafrost

[Paul]

Scientists Revived Ancient 'Zombie Viruses' Frozen For Eons in Siberia
By David Nield, ScienceAlert, Novmber 25, 2022
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-revived-ancient-zombie-viruses-frozen-for-eons-in-siberia

The paper is:

Alempic, J.M., Lartigue, A., Goncharov, A.E., Grosse, G., Strauss, J.,
Tikhonov, A.N., Fedorov, A.N., Poirot, O., Legendre, M., Santini, S.
and Abergel, C., 2022. An update on eukaryotic viruses revived from
ancient permafrost. bioRxiv.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.10.515937v1
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.10.515937v1.full.pdf

An earler article is:

Scientists Are Reawakening a 'Giant Virus' Frozen in The Siberian Wilderness
By Peter Dockrill, ScienceAlert, September 9, 2015
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-are-reawakening-a-giant-virus-frozen-in-the-siberian-wilderness

Yours,

Paul H.