Simple questions: Recent Episodes
Aleksei Dudchenko
How life is encoded? Why are viruses mutating? How to compare two viruses, and where is the boundary between a new variant and a new virus? How did we find new strains of Covid? How do we know whether our vaccine is going to work against a new variant?
We've discussed it with molecular biologist Laura Armbruster.
In this episode, I question a molecular biologist Laura Armbruster from Heidelberg University.
What does a typical virus look like?
How big are viruses?
Viruses are not living, what does that really mean?
How to "kill" a virus?
Where viruses come from if they a so different?
Antibiotics vs viruses?
Vaccination vs bacteria?