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How the COVID-19 Virus Hijacks Your Cells
1:07:07 - 1:12:25 (05:17)
The COVID-19 virus hijacks human cells by cutting and cleaving negative strand RNAs resulting in the production of positive strand RNAs that make up the virus, replicating and creating new viral envelopes in the process.
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The viruses that spread most effectively and don't kill the host are the ones that are most likely to survive over evolutionary time, according to Stephanie Desmon, a science writer for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as mutations in viruses can often make them more transmissible.
1:07:07 - 1:09:23 (02:15)
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The viruses that spread most effectively and don't kill the host are the ones that are most likely to survive over evolutionary time, according to Stephanie Desmon, a science writer for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as mutations in viruses can often make them more transmissible.
ChapterHow the COVID-19 Virus Hijacks Your Cells
Episode#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The virus hijacks the host cells in order to create proteins for the virus and produce partial negative strand RNAs that make positive strand RNAs that look like any other human mRNA, thus preventing cells from translating their own RNA.
1:09:23 - 1:12:25 (03:01)
Summary
The virus hijacks the host cells in order to create proteins for the virus and produce partial negative strand RNAs that make positive strand RNAs that look like any other human mRNA, thus preventing cells from translating their own RNA.