Category: Viruses
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An unseen organism and a hypothesis about the origin of viruses
What is a parasite? A definition that often comes up is this one: Parasites, in a phrase, are predators that eat prey in units of less than one. Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence (2014) The sentence is funny, but in my opinion it’s not really a good definition. First, what about “units…
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Dead gods
Following is an extract from André Lwoff‘s lecture “The Concept of Virus“, given before the Society for General Microbiology on April 15th, 1957. I attempted to translate it into French just after. If you want to read the entire lecture (which I can only recommend), you can access it here : The Concept of Virus…
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Phycoplankton 