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New Delhi: A team of scientists have discovered nearly 15,000-year-old viruses in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China and most of them are unlike any viruses that have been catalogued to date.
For this study, the scientists also created a new method of analysing microbes and viruses in ice without contaminating it. The findings may help scientists understand how viruses evolved over centuries.
These glaciers were formed gradually, and along with dust and gases, many viruses were also deposited in the ice. Ice cores are like time capsules that scientists have used to understand more about climate change, microbes, viruses and gases throughout history.
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