Personal Journal

The “Spongivirus”: Charming Little Menace Every now and then, a class project produces a virus so weirdly creative you almost want to root for it. The Spongivirus (officially D. spongiae Variant-1) is exactly that. Picture a virus with a sponge-like outer shell full of tiny pores and a yellow protective core inside. It’s basically the kitchen sponge of the microscopic world, just… a lot less helpful ` This thing runs on RNA, which means it mutates fast and never sits still.