Viruses Are the Dark Matter of Biology
<p>Viruses are deceptively simple. Tiny genomes, barely considered alive (and not even alive, depending on your definition of life). But they are everywhere, at levels that you likely can’t even imagine.</p>
<p>And they play vital roles in the most basic aspects of your life — and in high level conversations about worldwide issues like climate change.</p>
<p>And even though we’ve known about their existence since the late 1800s, we’ve barely even begun to discover them.</p>
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