Scientists have managed to revive a 700-year-old virus from ancient caribou feces and used it to infect a living plant. This was done mainly to show that global warming could do the same to a plethora of other infectious viruses that are believed to be extinct. Genetic engineering has helped scientists replicate extinct viruses and study them. Because there was no way to preserve ancient … [Read more...]
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