THE VIRUS FACTORY. “On one side, the bacteria are metabolically active, stealing ATP and biochemical precursors from their hosts to transcribe their genomes, translate their proteins, replicate their DNA, and divide. On the other side, one sees a large but metabolically silent viral particle, not deserving to be described as living by most biologists. This traditional view might, however, be a case of ‘when the finger points to the stars, the fool looks at the finger’. Rather than comparing a parasitic cell to the virus particle, I believe we should compare it to the ‘virus factory’.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022