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Coronaviruses 101: Focus on Molecular Virology

Open jsekamane opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Glaunsinger explains the evolution, genetics, and virulence of coronaviruses
(skip the first 10 minutes/introduction):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_bOhZd6ieM

Timestamps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_bOhZd6ieM&lc=UgyZB35CfH70Xwgrtb14AaABAg

Slides: slides.pdf

Fore instance, she talks about CoVs being unusually large (~30kb) compared to other viruses – in fact, CoVs are above the theoretical limit – because they proof-read (exonuclease) the replicated RNA.

jsekamane avatar Apr 08 '20 13:04 jsekamane

Watching now, looks good!

geohot avatar Apr 14 '20 09:04 geohot