Virus frozen in permafrost in Siberia comes back to life after 48,500 years

Seven viruses frozen and stored for thousands of years in the Siberian permafrost. They were discovered by a group of researchers from the French University of Aix-Marseille. Scholars brought them back to life in the laboratory, where they replicated. An intervention that might seem risky but which, according to experts, is essential when it comes to climate change, given that the ice is melting quickly.