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November 02, 2006

Viral Fossil Brought Back to Life

A several million year old human endogenous retrovirus that is now part of our genome has been resuscitated (kind of - it was mostly rebuilt from intelligent guesswork). There's a bit of worry about how such resurrections may endanger the current human race. I'm sure that's the plot of a sci-fi or zombie film, or if not soon will be.

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Posted by samwebster at November 2, 2006 03:18 PM
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