Viruses don't just make us sick. They can actually sometimes end up in our genomes. — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
We may be sucking in all sorts of viruses and we really don't know the full range of them. Maybe we've got… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
When you get sick with the flu you get infected with flu viruses and they make lots of new flu viruses, but… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
There is some research that suggests that viruses like the flu are really actually kind of at the razor's edge when it… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
We have Borna virus genes. We're part Borna virus, which is weird, but apparently our cells and our genomes in a weird… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Parasites are not only incredibly diverse; they are also incredibly successful. There are parasitic stretches of DNA in your own genes, some… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Borna virus is not a retrovirus. It doesn't actually insert its own genes into our cells. What it does is just hangs… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us.… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
The only kinds of ways we have to deal with viruses are old school, so vaccines for example are very effective, but… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
At long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
“The extra clutter adds no important insight; instead, it offers more clutter in which erros can lurk.” — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well. — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Medicine allows people to live who would otherwise die, so antibiotics will let people survive infections that they might be otherwise very vulnerable to… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
“Two hallmarks of Homo Sapiens are decoration and self-identification.” — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable as viruses… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
“[Writing to Lucretius, on Epicurus' belief that the soul was no different from the rest of the cosmos; made of atoms] "Death is therefore… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
We may be sucking in all sorts of viruses and we really don't know the full range of them. Maybe we've got flu virus… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
“It may be hard to imagine a world before antibiotics, but now we must imagine a world where antibiotics are not the only weapon… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
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