<story><title>Inside the Coronavirus</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/interactive/inside-the-coronavirus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gdubs</author><text>Around the point in the interactive where it shows how the virus swings sugar molecules around to distract the immune system I paused and marveled at the tiny universe inside our bodies.&lt;p&gt;The first time I recall feeling similarly was when I first watched Cosmos as a kid, and Carl Sagan juxtaposes time lapse photography of cities against the bustling activity of cells inside the human body.&lt;p&gt;We walk around every day thinking of ourselves as solid objects in a Newtonian world, like balls on a billiards table. But when we actually take a minute to reflect on all of it, it’s clearly so much more complex than that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Inside the Coronavirus</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/interactive/inside-the-coronavirus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acqq</author><text>One of very interesting properties of SARS-CoV (2003) and SARS-Cov-2 (2019) is that they have their &amp;quot;proofreading&amp;quot; replication mechanisms, or in the terms of people working with computers these viruses have an &amp;quot;error correction device&amp;quot; active during the copying that allows them to have a relatively long genome which won&amp;#x27;t mutate too fast:&lt;p&gt;NYT interactive April 2020, also a good visualization of some &amp;quot;building blocks&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;interactive&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;coronavirus-genome-bad-news-wrapped-in-protein.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;interactive&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;coron...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2015 paper:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pnas.org&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;112&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;9436&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pnas.org&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;112&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;9436&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2013 paper:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journals.plos.org&amp;#x2F;plospathogens&amp;#x2F;article?id=10.1371&amp;#x2F;journal.ppat.1003760&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journals.plos.org&amp;#x2F;plospathogens&amp;#x2F;article?id=10.1371&amp;#x2F;j...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2006 paper:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC1458802&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC1458802&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>