Covered Quote by Francis Collins

“Most people think of viruses as parasites, but they aren't parasites at all. An organism has to be considered alive to be classified as…

— Christian Cantrell

“Because the thing about viruses is that they're easily manipulated. The DNA they inject doesn't have to be destructive. It can be replaced with…

— Christian Cantrell

A virus has three purposes: to duplicate, to infiltrate and to spread from one host to the next. Ultimately, even a single virus can…

— Wayne Dyer

It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although…

— Francis Crick

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

— Craig Venter

DNA is the master blueprint for life and constitutes the genetic material in all free-living organisms and most viruses. RNA is the genetic material…

— Richard J. Roberts

“When a virus enters a cell, it sheds its coat, and begins to use the cell as a factory to copy its genes, and…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“A “better” biological virus — like a computer virus — will perhaps just make its host sick, but still well enough to keep spreading the virus”

— Peter H. Gregory

If the structure that serves as a template (the gene or virus molecule) consists of, say, two parts, which are themselves complementary In structure,…

— Linus Pauling

It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's…

— Carl Zimmer

It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of…

— William S. Burroughs

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

— E. O. Wilson