Lcm-lassa complex viruses

... of evolution and NS. It is also interesting to think whether (some?) viruses have also evolved in a similar manner: they were originally more complex, but they've given up every part from their structure whose function the target cell ...

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... a gradual formation of self-replicating molecules that became more complex due to competition of free building blocks for their copies. There ... can be said "this is life now, it's not inorganic anymore." Viruses even today blur the line between live and inanimate particles. Prions ...

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... of borderline cases like everybody knows. I usually like to think that viruses (here, virions) are 'false dead' when they are outside cells, and ... This being said, they (or some of them) have possibly evolved from more complex viruses, so if those were alive, why wouldn't viroids be - life probably ...

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I voted not alive. Yes they are complex things but it's just not the same as lets say a bacterium. Virions, viruses and prions are just made up of some proteins and nucleic acid, which are equivalent to a small ...

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... beneficial molecules can enter a cell. A virus is blocked. So good, viruses aren't really a threat. I spent a truckload of money on Tamiflu for ... the DNA strand into two.(before transcription) Simply wrong. This so complex system could not have originated by chance. When the details of cell ...

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