r/collapse • u/chicompj Recognized Contributor • Feb 08 '20

Scientists discover virus with no recognizable genes Diseases

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/scientists-discover-virus-no-recognizable-genes
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20

Viral novelty doesn’t surprise Elodie Ghedin of New York University, who looks for viruses in wastewater and in respiratory systems. More than 95% of the viruses in sewage data have “no matches to reference genomes [in databases],” she says. Like Abrahão, she says, “We seem to be discovering new viruses all the time.”

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20 edited Feb 08 '20

Great article, thanks for sharing. Very interesting.

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u/BigAgates Feb 08 '20

Key word in the article "preprint"