Thursday, January 25, 2018

Researchers discover a new family of viruses swimming in the ocean

Scientists at MIT and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have identified a new family of ocean-dwelling viruses that cannot be detected using standard lab tests. Despite their previously hidden existence, these tail-less viruses are quite common. Scientists suspect that these kinds of viruses may be abundant everywhere, even inside the human body. "We don't think it's ocean-specific at all," MIT environmental microbiologist and study leader Martin Polz told ScienceAlert. This discovery...

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