At the School for Influenza in Brisbane, TWiV speaks with Kirsty, Erik and Rebecca about their careers and their research.
Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Kirsty Short, Erik Karlsson, and Rebecca Cox
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In response to the “why are RNA viruses generally more compact than DNA viruses”.
There was talk about the fact they are smaller may be because you want less room for error, as RNA is going to replicated less consistently. But isn’t this a falsehood when you a bigger virus may have the chance to encode multiple copies of genes, or a mechanism to make replication more accurate?
Is it not these smaller viruses that use techniques such as frame-shifting to get more proteins encoded from their less sequence? Wouldn’t this lead the sequence to be more prone to errors as well?
Re: Placentas
They don’t always go to medical waste. Some women have been following the habits of animals and opting to eat their placentas.
Some choose to have the placenta made into easy to swallow capsules, while others prefer a placenta smoothie, placenta lasagne, or a dinner of placenta sautéed with wine and shallots. (Think I’m kidding? Google “Placenta Recipes” and see for yourself!)
Done gagging yet?