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Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome (Complete sequence of the genome and the proteins it codes for)
NYTimes ^ | April 3, 2020 | Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer

Posted on 04/04/2020 11:59:22 PM PDT by aquila48

A virus is “simply a piece of bad news wrapped up in protein,” the biologists Jean and Peter Medawar wrote in 1977.

In January, scientists deciphered a piece of very bad news: the genome of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. The sample came from a 41-year-old man who worked at the seafood market in Wuhan where the first cluster of cases appeared.

Researchers are now racing to make sense of this viral recipe, which could inspire drugs, vaccines and other tools to fight the ongoing pandemic.

A String of RNA

Viruses must hijack living cells to replicate and spread. When the coronavirus finds a suitable cell, it injects a strand of RNA that contains the entire coronavirus genome.

The genome of the new coronavirus is less than 30,000 “letters” long. (The human genome is over 3 billion.) Scientists have identified genes for as many as 29 proteins, which carry out a range of jobs from making copies of the coronavirus to suppressing the body’s immune responses.

The first sequence of RNA letters reads:

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: genome
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To: datura
There is no way in Hell that this thing is zoonotic.

No effing way.

Weapon. After reading the source article, how can there be any other conclusion???

Always remember 1 thing concerning communications from the federal government. IT's what they DON'T say that is typically the facts. They thing the FedGov is definitively not saying is this virus is an intentional biological warfare weapon. To cover the attack, they were okay with killing 10's of 1000's of their own people to make it LOOK like it came from nature. Those Chinese killed were the diversion and propaganda pawns to die in the Banzai charge over the crest of the hill. This is war.

41 posted on 04/05/2020 3:55:48 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: familyop
Thanks. We were eating very few carbs, but there’s a meat shortage in the supermarkets here. Will try to do it again as soon as possible. In the meantime, about an hour of exercise in a day decreases the craving for food, too.

If you want to kill carbohydrate pangs, eat about 3 tablespoons of all natural peanut butter that has no sugar added. It then takes 15-20 minutes for your body to react and stop the craving. It stops for a good 3-4 hours after the wait (which is hard to do).

42 posted on 04/05/2020 4:02:05 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: datura

This SHOULD be a wakeup; Come to JESUS; call for those who; at this moment; have no hope for eternity.


43 posted on 04/05/2020 4:31:07 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: PA Engineer
Please trust me.

But WHY?!?

You're an engineer!



44 posted on 04/05/2020 4:36:35 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: familyop
Here’s why more men have been dying in some areas (but not all).

I'm not sick!!

Hold ma beer.

45 posted on 04/05/2020 4:38:12 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: CptnObvious

I would guess most elderly in nursing homes are taking multiple prescriptions daily. If so, their immune systems are very compromised.


46 posted on 04/05/2020 5:17:28 AM PDT by captain_dave
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To: PA Engineer
Explains a great deal about this virus. This was a bioweapon that escaped. No doubt in my mind.

China is Asshoe.™

Nuke China.

Oh, and burn Bill Gates alive. One kitchen match at a time.

47 posted on 04/05/2020 5:43:43 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: familyop
To lose weight rapidly, try one of the following:

1) Ketogenic diet (like Atkins) -- extreme low carb
2) Intermittent fasting -- eat only in a 4-hour window each day
3) Intermittent fasting: 24 hour fast every other day (remarkably easy to stick to after the first few days). If you have problems at the beginning, eat a little salt.

48 posted on 04/05/2020 5:45:48 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: PA Engineer
Move more and eat less was a horrible punishment for people who were fed the entire food pyramid scheme. Just cut the carbs to less than 20 grams a day and restrict your eating to an 8 hour window. It just works. Please trust me.

This did not work as well for me as alternate-day fasting or carb cycling with intense exercise. (Lifting + "long, slow" cardio).

49 posted on 04/05/2020 5:47:48 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Pelham

You’re way, Way, WAY behind the curve.


50 posted on 04/05/2020 5:48:44 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: familyop
On cases by sex, have a look at this (”biological sex data”). I wonder if some decision makers might be concerned about allowing public panic.

Please see the below: ;-)

https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FTitaniaMcGrath%2Fstatus%2F1245065686424203265&widget=Tweet

51 posted on 04/05/2020 5:52:41 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: USCG SimTech
DAFUQ.

Disagree only in that it looks like Winnie the Flu and the other Chicom leaders panicked when someone finally braved the firing squads enough to get it through their thick skulls that this was a bioweapon.

I think they did *both*, btw -- kill innocents and treat it as more "out of control" than it was.

But it's funny, yesterday the news came out that one Chinese province or whatever they call it, ordered 200,000 body bags.

52 posted on 04/05/2020 5:56:01 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: aquila48

There aren’t 100 people in the viewing area of this article that can understand what they are showing. So this is a way to continue the sky is falling by telling us what the cloud content is. Must have been a slow news day...the market is returning, normal accounting for deaths by gunshot, trying to cover Cuomo’s keyster for getting caught with the ventilators and lying about it, and trying to hide Biden from saying anything that will further make him look stupid. That would be a normal full plate if they were honest.

rwood


53 posted on 04/05/2020 6:00:59 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: aquila48

Not that it has any value, but I did my own calculations regarding the relative sizes of virons, cells, and atoms.

Winds up that there are less than 1 million atoms in a viron, and 1 million virons could fit in an average human cells. To put it another way, cells are far, far, more complex than virons.


54 posted on 04/05/2020 7:19:07 AM PDT by BobL
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To: Elsie
But WHY?!?

You're an engineer!


You're an idiot.

Oh, I left out the good part favored by you fury types. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
55 posted on 04/05/2020 11:42:18 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: datura
I do believe that 🇨🇳 China put this together as a biological weapon. Because it spread too fast to otherwise doubt.
56 posted on 04/05/2020 1:16:46 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: grey_whiskers

From the link:

“According to these statistics, non-binary people are totally immune.”

That’s profoundly weird. ;)


57 posted on 04/05/2020 3:35:24 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: grey_whiskers
You’re way, Way, WAY behind the curve.

That's from the CDC dated March 26th. You'll need to take it up with them.

58 posted on 04/05/2020 3:41:42 PM PDT by Pelham (Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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To: Pelham

ROFLMAO.
“Never believe anything until it has been officially denied” and all that.


59 posted on 04/05/2020 3:48:10 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

So with regard to post #26, what’s your update to that CDC information?


60 posted on 04/05/2020 3:52:04 PM PDT by Pelham (Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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