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Virus Talk with Josh and Chuck

Stuff You Should Know

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The Hostile Takeover of Viruses

Once inside the cell, you'll see a lot that the virus hijacks the cells processes. The enzymes are focused on transcribing the DNA, which ultimately just makes more DNA or RNA for the virus. And then assembling it with proteins that the enzymes are now making. So they're now making more and more and more viruses. It's a hostile takeover. That's one way to go. There's another thing called a retrovirus, which is ironic because they actually have the softest impact on the host cell. A retrovirus goes in very quietly hangs around. With their 80s clothing. Yeah. Because HIV is a retrov Virus. But I think flu, flu is

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