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An entertaining read, but I have no doubt that there will be a mundane explaination eventually.
by woleium 5y ago
An entertaining read, but I have no doubt that there will be a mundane explaination eventually.
- gus_massa 5y agoI always recommend to wait like 5 years until the dust settles and you can see pass the overhype of the authors and the overhype of the university press release, but after reading about megavirus[1], transposon[2], plasmids[3] and other stuff, this new category does not look impossible. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandoravirus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandoravirus [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposable_element https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposable_element [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmid