Christy Esmahan
THE LAPTEV VIRUS
A Novel For Dr. John R. Stevenson, and in memory of Drs. Donald C. Cox, Robert J. Brady and Jnanendra K. Bhattacharjee. They were truly outstanding Microbiology professors, my mentors whom I hold fondly in my heart “Strange things are slumbering in the permafrost—and some of them are able to wake up”
—Veronique Greenwood PROLOGUE On March 3, 2014, Geoffrey Mohan from the Los Angeles Times reported: A 30,000-year-old giant virus has been revived from the frozen Siberian tundra, sparking concern that increased mining and oil drilling in rapidly warming northern latitudes could disturb dormant microbial life that could one day prove harmful to man. The latest find, described online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, appears to belong to a new family of [giant viruses] that infect only amoeba. But its revival in a laboratory stands as “a proof of principle that...
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