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Frozen Antarctic lakes yield new viruses

In the chilly depths of one of Antarctica's freshwater lakes, a surprising number of novel viruses thrive.

Researchers braved frigid temperatures to collect water samples from Lake Limnopolar, located on Livingston Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, and sequenced the genomes of the collected species. The new genetic study reveals some 10,000 species of viruses from a dozen families.

... The researchers also compared samples taken at different times of the year and found that come high summer (December in Antarctica), when the ice melts away from the lake's surface, many of the single-stranded DNA viruses had changed into double-stranded versions.

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Brain disease treated by gene therapy

Researchers have halted a fatal brain disease by delivering a therapeutic gene to the stem cells that mature into blood cells.

The gene was transferred using a virus derived from HIV, a technique that researchers have pursued for more than a decade but has not been successful in humans until now.

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  • moosl
    18 Nov 2010, 18:57
    Well I am sure Georgeanne knows the local crowd far better than I do, and what they might be likely to purchase.
  • moosl
    18 Nov 2010, 14:36
    Kiwi's sister, at whose home we're having the show, was strongly in favor of clock hands sweeping over body parts. She thinks it would sell well to the St Louis art crowd. I was initially putting the…
  • moosl
    18 Nov 2010, 14:05
    some of them are lovely photos, but the clock doesn't fit in well (e.g. kwan yin - there's no place for the clock to go). the chihuly tentacle is great in that respect, because there is a natural hub…
  • moosl
    18 Nov 2010, 12:48
    Geoff might well like to have this!! Some amazing pix came out of that day :) And I like the implied comparison of a clock=time with soap bubble=ephemerality... (is that a word??)

    It's pretty hard…
  • moosl
    16 Nov 2010, 20:01
    priceless :)
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