Comments on: Our Viral Future: Video of My Recent Talk http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/10/27/our-viral-future-video-of-my-recent-talk/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Claudiu Bandea http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/10/27/our-viral-future-video-of-my-recent-talk/#comment-19114 Claudiu Bandea Fri, 02 Nov 2012 12:00:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=6378#comment-19114 Carl, I enjoyed your talk about the future of viruses, as well as your book ‘A Planet of Viruses.’ In a comment to a review of your book in Nature by Robin Weiss, I asked: “What is a virus Dr. Weiss?” (<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v474/n7351/full/474279a.html?wt.ec_id=nature-20110616" rel="nofollow">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v474/n7351/full/474279a.html?wt.ec_id=nature-20110616</a>). This question has its roots in a paper I published almost three decades ago in the Journal of Theoretical Biology (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6672474" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6672474</a>) in which I outlined the scientific and academic constrains associated with the dogma of viruses as virus particles, and proposed a new model for the origin and nature of viruses (an open access update of this model is available at: <a href="http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3886/version/1" rel="nofollow">http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3886/version/1</a>). Given you interest and fascination with viruses, I wonder what do you think about the comment and about the alternative paradigm on the nature and evolutionary origin of viruses? Carl,

I enjoyed your talk about the future of viruses, as well as your book ‘A Planet of Viruses.’
In a comment to a review of your book in Nature by Robin Weiss, I asked: “What is a virus Dr. Weiss?” (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v474/n7351/full/474279a.html?wt.ec_id=nature-20110616).

This question has its roots in a paper I published almost three decades ago in the Journal of Theoretical Biology (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6672474) in which I outlined the scientific and academic constrains associated with the dogma of viruses as virus particles, and proposed a new model for the origin and nature of viruses (an open access update of this model is available at: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3886/version/1).

Given you interest and fascination with viruses, I wonder what do you think about the comment and about the alternative paradigm on the nature and evolutionary origin of viruses?

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