Chile: the megavirus

Postby patagoniax » Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:18 pm

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Megavirus chilensis.
Largest virus ever discovered, and found in Chilean waters. More robust than the previous record-size megavirus.

How big? Run for your lives. You can see it a simple optical microscope. None of that fancy-schmanzy electron microscope stuff needed. That big.

Chilean megavirus. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.


http://technorati.com/lifestyle/article ... or=#80BFFF]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15242386
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Re: Chile: the megavirus

Postby Apapayado » Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:56 pm

Watch out all you amoebas out there!!!!

I love that there is a massive virus in Chile, to go with the massive sun, massive smiles and massive pisco sours :)
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