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The real concern that security departments have is designer
viruses.
If that research is truly discontinued, there should be very little activity on the know-how to make designer
viruses
in the future.
We're in a constant arms race with bacteria and
viruses.
Now if we had an undo button, and we could go back and isolate it and grab it when it first started, if we could find it early and we had early detection and early response, and we could put each one of those
viruses
in jail, that's the only way to deal with something like a pandemic.
But there were 30 to 50 novel
viruses
that jumped into human beings.
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is one of many
viruses
whose protective outer surface is made of a lipid bilayer.
Coronaviruses are a group of
viruses
covered in little protein spikes that look like a crown— or "corona" in Latin.
These seasonal variations matter more for established
viruses.
All
viruses
are either RNA
viruses
or DNA
viruses.
RNA
viruses
tend to be smaller, with fewer genes, meaning they infect many hosts and replicate quickly in those hosts.
In general, RNA
viruses
don’t have a proofreading mechanism, whereas DNA
viruses
do.
This is true of the RNA
viruses
that caused the Ebola, Zika, and SARS epidemics, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coronaviruses have a few key differences from most RNA
viruses.
This makes coronaviruses much more stable, with a slower mutation rate, than other RNA
viruses.
I expect some of you remember the ILOVEYOU virus, one of the very great worldwide
viruses
that came.
Breakthroughs in treatment and prevention of symptoms can make
viruses
much less dangerous, and therefore require less extreme containment measures.
The viruses, those quasi-organisms among which are the prophages, the gene weavers that promote the continued evolution in the lives of the bacteria, are a virtually unknown frontier of modern biology, a world unto themselves.
But this much we can say: the variety of genes on the planet in
viruses
exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
So I'm here to report some really fun games with students who come pre-installed with these
viruses
day one of the class.
In the vaccine area, Synthetic Genomics and the Institute are forming a new vaccine company because we think these tools can affect vaccines to diseases that haven't been possible to date, things where the
viruses
rapidly evolve, such with rhinovirus.
The principal challenge for both of these
viruses
is that they're always changing.
In the video a moment ago, you saw fleets of new
viruses
launching from infected cells.
Now, in the 27 years since HIV was identified as the cause of AIDS, we've developed more drugs to treat HIV than all other
viruses
put together.
Viruses
only grow in living things, and so it turned out that, for flu, chicken eggs worked really well.
While overall new cases of HIV continue to drop in the world, this trend may be short-lived when the next wave of more aggressive and resistant
viruses
arrive.
Within a person infected with HIV, the genetic difference between an infecting mother virus and subsequent daughter
viruses
has been shown to be as much as five percent.
We need to think of HIV not as a single virus that we think we've figured out, but as a collection of rapidly evolving and highly unique viruses, each of which can set off the next deadly epidemic.
You know that Africa is being affected by these
viruses.
We can also see blooms of bacteria, blooms of
viruses
in the ocean.
I've got an idea, we found this egg-shaped thingie from outer space so why don't we thaw it out and open it up?" "Yes, I know that would be the dumbest thing a scientist could do, and it could be filled with contaminating bacteria or
viruses
unknown to earth and could potentially wipe out the human race, but hey, I want to know what's in it".
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