4 ms·
Article doesn't match the headline at all. The study seems to say "Hey, when your body produces and injects viruses into a host, you can transfer genes", which
by ergothus 11y ago
Article doesn't match the headline at all. The study seems to say "Hey, when your body produces and injects viruses into a host, you can transfer genes", which is obviously a small subset of biological interactions.
It also casually lumps horizontal transfer between bacteria into the same category as multicellular life. We _know_ how bacteria do it, and it's not how most eukaryotic cells are built.