Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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I agree. I'm only going on what is reported but by all means this could be a lot more serious and dangerous than we are led to believe. Not ruling that out at all.

For example all the actual people from around the grenfall tower said the death count there was a lot higher than what was being reported from knowing how many people were in there beforehand.

Just going on everything I could possibly know about it not being Chinese or in China right now, it's a bad flu. If there is more information that suggests it's a really serious thing, we haven't been told about it , despite the hysteria.

I'd rather not get it thanks.
 
This may be a bit of a weird question and I should probably know the answer already as my degree was in biology, but why is it a DNA sequence for an RNA virus? Would have expected to see U rather than T. Is it just a case of converting all U’s to T’s?

In sequencing a RNA strand, you use an enzyme called reverse transcriptase (RT), which allows you to go from RNA to DNA (recall that most genes, when making proteins, go from DNA to RNA not vice versa). With RT, you get a copy of the RNA virus in DNA form, called copy-DNA (cDNA). So in sequencing what you'd be actually measuring and sequencing is the cDNA produced by RT from the viral RNA.

^^^^^^I'm pretty sure that's generally correct, though I could be wrong.

More generally, I find it amazing that different combinations of A's, C's, T's, G's direct and specify all life forms and their traits, from eye color we find alluring to viruses that can wipe out half the earth.
 
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In sequencing a RNA strand, you use an enzyme called reverse transcriptase (RT), which allows you to go from RNA to DNA (recall that most genes, when making proteins, go from DNA to RNA not vice versa). With RT, you get a copy of the RNA virus in DNA form, called copy-DNA (cDNA). So in sequencing what you'd be actually measuring and sequencing is the cDNA produced by RT from the viral RNA.

^^^^^^I'm pretty sure that's generally correct, though I could be wrong.
I’ll take your word for it. Thanks!;)
 
In sequencing a RNA strand, you use an enzyme called reverse transcriptase (RT), which allows you to go from RNA to DNA (recall that most genes, when making proteins, go from DNA to RNA not vice versa). With RT, you get a copy of the RNA virus in DNA form, called copy-DNA (cDNA). So in sequencing what you'd be actually measuring and sequencing is the cDNA produced by RT from the viral RNA.

^^^^^^I'm pretty sure that's generally correct, though I could be wrong.


 
In sequencing a RNA strand, you use an enzyme called reverse transcriptase (RT), which allows you to go from RNA to DNA (recall that most genes, when making proteins, go from DNA to RNA not vice versa). With RT, you get a copy of the RNA virus in DNA form, called copy-DNA (cDNA). So in sequencing what you'd be actually measuring and sequencing is the cDNA produced by RT from the viral RNA.

^^^^^^I'm pretty sure that's generally correct, though I could be wrong.

More generally, I find it amazing that different combinations of A's, C's, T's, G's direct and specify all life forms and their traits, from eye color we find alluring to viruses that can wipe out half the earth.

I‘m with you lads......
 
We are saved a breakthrough in tackling the virus. Our PM has gathered the great and good of British minds standing alone in the world in the face of adversity. Get your tissues out and catch those sneezes and put the GREAT back into Britain, it's the brave new innovative Britain.

 
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