The virus before 30,000 can still infect – Onet.pl

 
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  Scientists virus they recover from before 30,000 years
 
 
 

Before scientists make waking want to make sure that the virus is not able to cause disease in humans or animals. Discovered in northeastern Russia, the virus has a size of 0.6 microns. It is called Mollivirus sibericum. This is the fourth prehistoric virus that could be found since 2003.

Its size does not, however, any significance for threat that may be. The most important thing is whether a potential carrier of the virus is susceptible to it. Determining whether the virus is not dangerous, it is also crucial because in parts of Siberia, where he was found, carried out mining of natural deposits.

Artificial heating these areas through their industrialization may lead to the awakening of dangerous microorganism and, consequently, to unpredictable consequences.

Waking up from a coma virus is not only possible, but even already been made. In 2013, in the same regions of Siberia Pithovirus sibericum discovered the virus, which has managed to thaw. Animated virus is then placed near pojedyncznej cell amoeba to check whether it infects.

Thus, What surprised the researchers is the fact that the virus before 30,000 years is not quite similar to those with whom we have to do now. It is not only bigger, but also more complex genetically. This seems to be a feature of prehistoric microbes. For comparison, the flu virus has eight genes and outdoor M. sibericum is their 500th revival of the virus enables researchers to closely monitor the way in which it infects other organisms.

(NG)