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c0nc0rdance
@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
Molecular biologist from Texas, here to share my meanderings on nature, science, history, politics, and zombies. Long threads a specialty. Let's learn new things together!
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It's a mind-shift from thinking of viruses as *just* disease agents. They're *US*. We're *made of* virus. Archaic retroviruses made the placenta possible, their ancient remnants control the patterns of gene expression, probably gave rise to our immune repertoire. We're human *because of them*.
Or mammals, anyway 😁
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c0nc0rdance
@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
Molecular biologist from Texas, here to share my meanderings on nature, science, history, politics, and zombies. Long threads a specialty. Let's learn new things together!
15.7k followers947 following13.5k posts