Some idiot from France is reviving 48,000 year old viruses

[EvilWayz]

In 2014, he (Jean-Michel Claverie, an Emeritus professor of medicine and genomics at the Aix-Marseille University School of Medicine in Marseille, France) managed to revive a virus he and his team isolated from the permafrost, making it infectious for the first time in 30,000 years by inserting it into cultured cells. For safety, he’d chosen to study a virus that could only target single-celled amoebas, not animals or humans.

He repeated the feat in 2015, isolating a different virus type that also targeted amoebas. And in his latest research, published February 18 in the journal Viruses, Claverie and his team isolated several strains of ancient virus from multiple samples of permafrost taken from seven different places across Siberia and showed they could each infect cultured amoeba cells.

What the actual fcuk.

Scientists have revived a 'zombie' virus that spent 48,500 years frozen in permafrost | CNN

Warmer temperatures in the Arctic are thawing the region's permafrost — a frozen layer of soil beneath the ground — and potentially stirring viruses that, after lying dormant for tens of thousands of years, could endanger animal and human health.

www.cnn.com

 

[NavigatorII]

In 2014, he (Jean-Michel Claverie, an Emeritus professor of medicine and genomics at the Aix-Marseille University School of Medicine in Marseille, France) managed to revive a virus he and his team isolated from the permafrost, making it infectious for the first time in 30,000 years by inserting it into cultured cells. For safety, he’d chosen to study a virus that could only target single-celled amoebas, not animals or humans.

He repeated the feat in 2015, isolating a different virus type that also targeted amoebas. And in his latest research, published February 18 in the journal Viruses, Claverie and his team isolated several strains of ancient virus from multiple samples of permafrost taken from seven different places across Siberia and showed they could each infect cultured amoeba cells.

What the actual fcuk.

Scientists have revived a 'zombie' virus that spent 48,500 years frozen in permafrost | CNN

Warmer temperatures in the Arctic are thawing the region's permafrost — a frozen layer of soil beneath the ground — and potentially stirring viruses that, after lying dormant for tens of thousands of years, could endanger animal and human health.

www.cnn.com

Interesting thread. I didn't see it earlier because of all of the shitposting today, but ignore fixed that! 😂 When I was a kid I was interested in science. My first experiment was burning off insect legs with a magnifying glass and then feeding it to a stirred up anthill. I moved on to freezing bugs in jars and removing them several days later to thaw out. It's amazing how many of them survived!

 

[instaGATOR]

EW, I just hope that my hereditary 'natural immunity' is still good after all this time.... 😉

 

[NavigatorII]

Interesting thread. I didn't see it earlier because of all of the shitposting today, but ignore fixed that! 😂 When I was a kid I was interested in science. My first experiment was burning off insect legs with a magnifying glass and then feeding it to a stirred up anthill. I moved on to freezing bugs in jars and removing them several days later to thaw out. It's amazing how many of them survived!

In retrospect, I was a "Young Dr Fauchi". 😂

 

[Gator Fever]

Doesn't sound too smart to be doing that.

 

[NavigatorII]

Doesn't sound too smart to be doing that.