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Model of how a Virus Works

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greybeh

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Of course, this is talking about an airborne virus, not something like XMRV (which the Whittemore Peterson Institute has clearly stated is NOT airborne).

I would think the cell processes would work similarly, but the method of entrance would just be different.

Here's a video animation with narration of how someone can become infected with a virus (in this case, again, an AIRBORNE virus):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114075029

OKAY, so can anyone tell me if the "big pink thing" is reverse transcriptase? I know nothing about viruses, but found this link fascinating and thought it might help spark discussion. Thanks, folks.
 

Kati

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OKAY, so can anyone tell me if the "big pink thing" is reverse transcriptase? I know nothing about viruses, but found this link fascinating and thought it might help spark discussion. Thanks, folks.


Reverse transcriptase is different since we'd be talking about a retrovirus in the case of XMRV.
The guy just explained the mechanism of viruses. I would suspect the big pink thing is transcriptase.

Kati