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  • 07 Aug 08
    umjeremy
    Jeremy Smith
    • Prof La Scola and his colleagues were surprised to spot a smaller type of virus attached to the virus-making factory inside infected cells. The new virus - Sputnik - was unable to infect cells by itself but seemed to hijack the larger to achieve its infectious aims.
  • 06 Aug 08
    baldie
    Rahul Das

    Giant viruses are infected with smaller viruses. (or is that virii?)

    studies news science biology

    • the discovery of a giant virus that itself falls ill through infection by another virus
  • andymatic
    andymatic

    But the discovery of a giant virus that itself falls ill through infection by another virus seems to suggest they too are alive, highlighting how there is no watertight definition of what exactly scientists mean when they refer to something as "living".

    genetics biology science

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