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Ancient viruses found in Tibetan glacier


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"For the past 15,000 years, a glacier on the northwestern Tibetan Plateau of China has hosted a party for some unusual guests: an ensemble of frozen viruses, many of them unknown to modern science.

"Scientists recently broke up this party after taking a look at two ice cores from this Tibetan glacier, revealing the existence of 28 never-before-seen virus groups."

Full monty at Live Science: https://www.livescience.com/unknown-viruses-discovered-tibetan-glacier.html

"Glacier ice archives fifteen-thousand-year-old viruses"

Jan 7th Paper at Biorxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.03.894675v1.full

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