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.
  • mesa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    103·
    8 个月前

    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

      • Orbituary@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        8 个月前

        It’s not a virus, and I think that @TachyonTele@lemm.ee was saying that they’d like the study reproduced, not the Obelisks.

        • thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
          46·
          8 个月前

          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·
        8 个月前

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

    • TH1NKTHRICE@lemmy.caEnglish
      21·
      8 个月前

      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
      14·
      8 个月前

      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·
        8 个月前

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  • Zier@fedia.io
    21·
    8 个月前

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

    • unyons@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      8 个月前

      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.