The Virtually-Unkillable Virus That Makes Itself a Nucleus

In 2017, scientists discovered what appeared to be an unkillable virus that does something very un-virus-like... it builds its own nucleus inside its host's cells!

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Sources:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1894-8
https://viralzone.expasy.org/787
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1786-y#Bib1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-019-0612-5
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6321/194