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Viral Fossil Brought Back to Life

Wow...

"In a controversial study, researchers have resurrected a retrovirus that infected our ancestors millions of years ago and now sits frozen in the human genome."  That really amazing, at some point in history a virus has successfully added itself to the DNA of a germ-line cell that has gone on to become a human, and this has been passed on.

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