The human #OAS1 protein restricts #SARSCoV2 replication, but #HorseshoeBat OAS1 has lost this ability. @spyroslytras @WilsonLabCVR &co resurrect the 60,000,000 yr old ancestral bat OAS1, revealing how this ancient #antiviral mechanism was lost #PLOSBiologyhttps://plos.io/3N6fWPx
Fediverse applications are frequently designed to be #antiviral - that is, to prevent spectacular spreads of information across the system.
It's possible - likely, even - that future Fediverse servers *will* be operated by commercial operators seeking to maximize attention in order to maximize revenue.
This may be what a very very very slow pandemic looks like. 🦠 As a step towards the development of an #antiviral, (Peng et al., 2022) recently elucidated the structure of the mpox DNA polymerase:
