PARIS: A 30,000-year-old giant virus has been unearthed in the frozen wastelands of Siberia and they said that they will reanimate it. Reanimate means restore to life or consciousness. Scientists have warned that climate change may awaken dangerous microscopic pathogens.
French researchers announced the discovery of Mollivirus sibericum, the fourth type of prehistoric virus found since 2003 this week in the flagship journal of the US National Academy of Sciences. In safe laboratory conditions, researchers will attempt to revive the newly discovered virus by placing it with single-cell amoeba, which will serve as its host.
Last year, the same team of French virus-hunters discovered another giant virus strain, Pithovirus sibericum, in the same sample of Arctic permafrost. Neither virus is harmful to humans or animals and both are hosted in common soil amoeba.
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