Episode 1 - What is a Virus?
Episode 1 - What is a Virus?
Episode 1 - What is a Virus?
What are viruses? Are they alive? Should we care? Listen to this episode to discover these tiny organisms and learn more about their biology.
Takeaways:
- 1) Viruses are organisms that can spread between individuals; 2) That take the resources to spread and reproduce from other organisms; 3) that must get inside the cells of the organisms they infect to reproduce; 4) That are made of DNA or RNA contained within a coat of proteins.
- Viruses are fundamentally dead (except when they are intracellular).
- We should not humanize them. Viruses are passive agents.
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What is a virus? What does spillover mean? How can viruses infect humans? If these are things that you would like to know but lack the time or energy to research them, then welcome to The Viral Talk, the show which gives brief, direct and easy-to-understand answers to the big questions in virology. I am your host Federico De Angelis, a PhD student studying SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses at the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh. Join me every other week to discover all the aspects of these obscure but fascinating organisms. Join in and Let's Go Viral.Join Podchaser to...
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