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'Virophage' Suggests Viruses Are Alive
Friday, August 08, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
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The discovery of a giant virus that falls ill through infection by another virus is fuelling the debate about whether viruses are alive. "There’s no doubt this is a living organism," says Jean-Michel Claverie, a virologist at the the CNRS UPR laboratories in Marseilles, part of France’s basic-research agency. "The fact that it can get sick makes it more alive."    (source: nature.com)


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