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SINGULAR BEINGS. “Current negatively stranded RNA viruses have genome structures and replication patterns that are dissimilar to all known cell types. No similarity between RNA-viral replicases and those of any known cell types has been identified.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

ANCIENT BEINGS. “Since viruses with RNA genomes are the only living beings that use RNA as a storage medium, they are considered to be witnesses of an earlier RNA world.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

HUMAN-TO-RAT INTERFACE. "Non-Invasive Brain-to-Brain Interface (BBI): Establishing Functional Links between Two Brains. The implementation was aimed to non-invasively translate the human volunteer’s intention to stimulate a rat’s brain motor area that is responsible for the tail movement." https://lnkd.in/d4zKZAS View in LinkedIn

DRAMATIC CAPABILITY. “Viruses can parasitize almost any replication system - even prebiotic ones.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

HUMAN BRAIN INTERFACES. We have seen demonstrations of human to machine, rat-to-rat, monkey-to-Avatar, monkey-to-monkey interfaces. Now, we look at human-to-human and human-to-animal interfaces. View in LinkedIn

RNA FIRST VIEW. “The pre-cellular RNA world must have been dominated by quasi-species consortia-based evolution, as are current RNA viruses.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this second weekend focused on the impact of viral gene editing of their host genomes and the contribution of this to speciation in many lineages. This puts viruses at the forefront of evolutionary drivers. But such a paradigm shift will take decades more to filter down to general acceptance. We still live in an era where the debate as to whether viruses can be thought of alive or not is an active discussion. Science vigorously resists paradigm shifts. View in LinkedIn

RNA WORLD VIEW. “From the early RNA-world perspective, the whole diversity of processes within and between evolutionarily later-derived cellular life depends on various RNAs.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

INTERACTING GENOMES. “Without living and interacting organisms and cells, genomic creativity would only be a possibility that is restricted to mere RNA combinatorial events (in an early pre-cellular RNA world), which has no relevance to the generation of a biosphere.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

VIRAL EDITS. “Persistent viruses and virus-like agents do natural genome editing.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn