Even Viruses Get the Blues

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Even Viruses Get the Blues

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/08/even-viruses-ge.html
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It's not only humans who suffer from the depredations of viruses. Viruses do, too. If that seems surprising, no wonder: until a team of French researchers watched one virus invade another, hijacking its genetic machinery and making copies of its victim's DNA, scientists didn't even know this was possible.

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