OMG OMG OMG, I'm so fascinated!

I've always been fascinated by how viruses work. Essentially, they are a bundle of genetic material (DNA or RNA) inside of a durable capsule that binds to a host cell, fuses or injects its genetic material into the cell, and causes the cell to begin replicating altered (viral) DNA or RNA of it's own. Some of these ( Read more... )