{"id":153813,"date":"2022-12-29T09:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/researchers-discovered-a-microscopic-organism-that-eats-viruses"},"modified":"2022-12-29T09:29:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:29:38","slug":"researchers-discovered-a-microscopic-organism-that-eats-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/researchers-discovered-a-microscopic-organism-that-eats-viruses","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discovered a microscopic organism that eats viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cz_VJTpfjQ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oto_feja\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>John DeLong and his colleagues at the University of Nebraska have discovered that a species of Halteria\u2014microscopic ciliates prevalent in freshwater habitats worldwide\u2014can consume a sizable number of infectious chloroviruses. For the first time, the team\u2019s laboratory tests have also demonstrated that a virus-only diet, or \u201cvirovory,\u201d can support an organism\u2019s physiological growth and even population increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oto_feja\/iStock. John DeLong and his colleagues at the University of Nebraska have discovered that a species of Halteria\u2014microscopic ciliates prevalent in freshwater habitats worldwide\u2014can consume a sizable number of infectious chloroviruses. For the first time, the team\u2019s laboratory tests have also demonstrated that a virus-only diet, or \u201cvirovory,\u201d can support an organism\u2019s physiological growth and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}