Saturday, April 4, 2020

The Bubble Factory


A virus is “simply a piece of bad news wrapped up in protein,” the biologists Jean and Peter Medawar wrote in 1977.

Great article by Carl Zimmerman in the New York Times. The complete kitchen recipe instruction manual on how to assemble SARS-CoV-2. Or rather, a guide to how it dis-assembles you and your kind. The Bubble Factory refers to the NSP6 protein, which works with NSP3 and NSP4 to make virus factory bubbles.

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