'Virus-eater' discovered in Antarctic lake

Nature News ^ | 28 March 2011 | Virginia Gewin

[allmendream]

When dyslexia attacks.

Jonathan SWIFT.

[crazydad]

The Thing. Que Kurt Russell.

[JoeProBono]

[MacMattico]

My husband's the joke teller. A “B-” is actually good for me in the “attempting to be amusing” category!

[The Sons of Liberty]

“parasitic parasites”

You don't have to go all the way to Antarctica to find parasitic parasites - check out DC.

[dljordan]

““parasitic parasites”? Who wrote this twaddle?”

You beat me.

[neocon1984]

Thanks Redneck,

I appreciate your informatve post. I suspect that most of the rest of the posters are JR HS students.

[dljordan]

“If we find a virus that attacks other viruses,
that may open the door to treating a lot of
diseases...”

Only if the FDA never has to approve it.

[Patton@Bastogne]

not bad ... but don’t give up your day job ...

[varyouga]

Yep. Exactly my thought. The scumbags in DC are lower than all the parasites feeding off dead-end entitlements. Many of those people are surrounded by urban ghetto and have known nothing else for generations (thanks to DC).

I'd say a good deal of DC bloodsuckers know they are destroying the country to line their own pockets.

[neverdem]

All this reproducing of the ‘virophage’ during its own infection of Zooplankton really messes up the virus - and allows the Zooplankon to thrive more than it would if the virus went unchecked.

Maybe the virophage is able to use the Zooplankton to reproduce. I'm no virologist or microbiologist, but this is certainly new.

[Sergio]

If cancer is a virus as some suggest...

[allmendream]

Yes, it piggybacks on a megavirus. The megavirus then infects a Zooplankton and injects its DNA into the cell. Inside the cell are the molecules and resources to reproduce more megavirus AND more virophage.

So it is a virus that piggybacks onto a megavirus that piggybacks onto a Zooplankton that reproduces ALL three actors in our little drama of reproduction.

[hosepipe]

[ I know what a parasite is, but it seems to me that a “parasitic parasite” is redundant. ]

Then you got your Kuncinch parasitizing Obama..
-OR- your Micheal Moore's parasitizing any restaurant..

AND democrats parasitizing Washington D.C....
AND Rinos parasitizing them...

Theres a whole lot of freeloading going on..

[dangerdoc]

“What else do you call a parasite that goes after parasites?”

Lobbyist?

[dangerdoc]

Eastern Europe has spent decades developing bacteriophages as an alternative to western medicine antibiotics.

[WL-law]

“There’s something back there, I don’t know what it is, but it’s weird and pissed off.”

[bert]

-——a new virophage — a virus that attacks viruses. ——

If I were a dualist, a believer in the ying and the yang, good and evil , black and white, then I would think “but of course”

For an evil virus, there has to be a good antivirus. That is just the way things are.

[Radix]

"I know what a parasite is, but it seems to me that a “parasitic parasite” is redundant."

"A government employee at the welfare office would fit the bill."

This site needs a "like button" feature.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem. MiB III might be able to work this into the story.

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