How does one discover a virus in the ocean? Are there just viruses living in the ocean and scientists out there getting beakers of ocean water to microscope?
The virus she told you not to worry about.
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danc4498@lemmy.world 1 month ago
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Pretty much.
The ocean is a war zone, an endless battle between bacteria and viruses. Trillions of dead every day; weapons developed and discarded as the tide of battle ebbs and flows.
klemptor@startrek.website 1 month ago
Yeah but viruses are obligate intracellular parasites - they can’t survive for long outside of a host cell and have to reproduce using the machinery of a host cell. I’m curious what this virus is parasitizing.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This sounds like a game I would play the shit out of
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 month ago
eh pretty much the blood war then
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 1 month ago
Sounds like it.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
the ocean is filled with viruses, mostly for bacteriophages, archaea virus(viruses that infect archaea, and other organisms. and most viruses can only be seen with electron microscope, because they are smaller than the wavelength of light.
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 1 month ago
micrometer scale is massive for viruses, thats the size of a small cell.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Right?! A LifeStraw would catch that.
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nice.
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Sir, that’s a lollipop glued to your scanning machine.
Hupf@feddit.org 1 month ago
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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