You're the micro guy here, wouldn't the size of the virus hinder its choice of cells it can enter?
Let's hope that virus doesn't adapt to human DNA.It would, but the way this thing replicates is creepy. It makes a little "trojan" cell full of its DNA which is swallowed up by an amoeba. The trojan cell then grows until the amoebal host cell bursts and then it repeats the cycle. The reason it's so big is because of all the DNA created while in the amoeba. Wow.
Another interesting fact. The Black Death started began in 1346. In 2012, that will have been 666 years ago. Now we find a giant scary virus hidden in the abyssal depths of the sea.
Coincidence....
Most likely, yes.t:
Is that serious or you thinking of the spores changing John Jameson?On a sorta related note, I sometimes think how irresponsible it was to land people on the Moon and then bring them back to Earth. It's just luck we didn't bring back some deadly Mooninite virus.
Amoebas are pretty big cells though, aren't they? It seems like it'd take some extreme adaptions to have this thing affect humans.
Amoebas are the largest single-celled organisms we know of. They can be big enough to see without a microscope. So even though this is a very large virus it's odds of actually becoming weaponized against anything but amoebas are slim.
Damn ocean, you scary!![]()
It's like the movie Contagion.
How so?
I sure hope it to be disappointingProbably because it seems frightening at first glance, but will ultimately be disappointing.
I smell virus propaganda films coming our way.![]()