#Viruses

Hi-Science time. Everyone is all worried about COVID variants. And they should be. RNA viruses mutate. A lot. Most mutations don't lead to anything. But some....well...they can be bad. However.....
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@Luma923 @VoteoutTrudeau @GolfQFloG @FrothyFatCoffee What is mRNA?It is a message, an egregore with a purpose, cut from the DNA in polyemerase, sent out from the nucleus, and contains a message.Now
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How viruses doesn’t exist! SIMPLIFIED (Thread) Am gonna explain how-Viruses don’t exist-What a “virus” really is-Why a “virus” is not contagious -Why your own body creates a “virus”- First, you
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HOT from the press @NatureMicrobiol: SARS-CoV-2 is likely to have diverged from the most closely related bat viruses 40–70 years ago. The findings suggest that the lineage giving rise to
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Questions for the day. What if viruses are formed by the body as a sort of cleaning messenger and are being mistakenly blamed for disease? The lipid envelope contents are
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But NB that for the virus to escape our immunity, that selection pressure is not enough. We also need diversity. A new virus type that better evades immunity needs to
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It looks like the universe will not let me have a day off.@Nature just released an Addendum on the WIV's first paper about COVID, explaining what's up with RaTG13, the
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I'm back and this time I'm loath to explain that SARS-CoV-2 ≠ influenza. This is really exhausting. Can people please just not opine on subjects they don't know about. Stop
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This is not correct. SARS-CoV-2 is nothing like influenza virus from a virological or evolutionary standpoint. A short thread on some big differences:https://twitter.com/drtomfrieden/status/1353020200757686276 Mutation drives evolution. All
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A thread on variants for non scientists - what are they, why do they happen, what does it mean for the pandemic? 1/7 Very simply - variants are what happens
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Why do so many pandemics originate in southern China? It is possible to answer this question without being xenophobic or promoting conspiracy theories. It boils down to two main reasons.1.
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Many scientists believe that the rise of novel viruses like SARS-CoV-2 is being driven by rising resource extraction. If that's the case, we will likely see many more pandemics in
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It is now abundantly clear China tried to cover up COVID-19 for weeks by confiscating samples and data, punishing outspoken scientists, and ordering others into silence. The implications are profound.
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1/ Lockdowns were ordered last March because “exponential” growth in Covid cases was going to overwhelm hospitals. Within months, if not weeks, it was clear that all of the modeling
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1/ Today has brought a lot of news about 'variants', as we discover community transmission of B.1.351 (SA variant) in the UK. But some of the people who study these
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I'm so damn mad... I'm actually sarcastic today.I want to know one thing...Last time yall saw viral engineers or scientists working with viruses like they tell us to dress and
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