Peering into the jungle of microbes that live within us, researchers have stumbled across what seem to be an entire new class of virus-like objects.
    • unyons@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      10 hours ago

      From what AI understood, yes. Scientists are not yet sure exactly what they are, and they have no apparent way to survive outside of a cell like viruses, but they also seem to be more complex than plasmids.

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1011·
    2 days ago

    Hopefully it gets peer reviewed soon. It’s interesting but I would like to see it reproduced before we say it was discovered.

    In a study that has yet to be peer reviewed

    • TH1NKTHRICE@lemmy.caEnglish
      20·
      2 days ago

      This article is from January. It has since been peer reviewed and published in Cell. But, having been peer reviewed has no bearing on reproducibility unless within this study they were to have multiple independent groups repeat their experiments. Which I don’t think they did. Still, good study I think.

    • SplashJackson@lemmy.caEnglish
      144·
      2 days ago

      I’m a peer. I pee at least 6 times a day; more if I’d had a lot of water that day. Can I review it?

      • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        As a for-profit company that publishes scientific papers FOR MONEY, youre a perfect fit for our org. Welcome aboard!

        • thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
          451·
          2 days ago

          I know that my comment deserved an “/s” since I was playing off of unclear pronouns and the article’s use of “virus-like,” but I felt that admitting that I was in on the joke undermined the humor. I stand by my choice and accept my downvotes for the chuckles.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        2 days ago

        Because they’re not a virus. And they’re a new discovery, we don’t know how they reproduce.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    211·
    2 days ago

    It’s an alien invasion. And you all thought they would be Human sized. mwahahahaha