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Infectious enthusiasm – MSU scientists discover new microbes in Yellowstone

November 25, 2007 /

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Scientist Mark Young brought out a small bag of green- and yellow-coated chocolate candies to explain something cool about viruses.

“A virus is an M&M,” Young said. “It has a hard shell on the outside made of protein, and inside, the soft gooey stuff is DNA or RNA.”

Young, a 50-year-old professor of plant science at Montana State University, grinned as he got into one of his favorite subjects.

By GAIL SCHONTZLER Chronicle Staff Writer

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