{"id":75626,"date":"2018-01-29T02:43:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T10:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/never-before-seen-viruses-with-weird-dna-were-just-discovered-in-the-ocean"},"modified":"2018-01-29T02:43:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T10:43:24","slug":"never-before-seen-viruses-with-weird-dna-were-just-discovered-in-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/never-before-seen-viruses-with-weird-dna-were-just-discovered-in-the-ocean","title":{"rendered":"Never-Before-Seen Viruses With Weird DNA Were Just Discovered in The Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/never-before-seen-viruses-with-weird-dna-were-just-discovered-in-the-ocean.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ocean is crowded. As many as 10 million viruses can be found squirming in a single millilitre of its water, and it turns out they have friends we never even knew about.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a previously unknown family of viruses that dominate the ocean and can\u2019t be detected by standard lab tests. Researchers suspect this viral multitude may already exist outside the water \u2014 maybe even inside us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t think it\u2019s ocean-specific at all,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2018\/new-type-virus-found-ocean-0124\">says<\/a> environmental microbiologist Martin Polz from MIT.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/new-ocean-viruses-weird-dna\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/new-ocean-viruses-weird-dna\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ocean is crowded. As many as 10 million viruses can be found squirming in a single millilitre of its water, and it turns out they have friends we never even knew about. Scientists have discovered a previously unknown family of viruses that dominate the ocean and can\u2019t be detected by standard lab tests. Researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75626","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}