The Human Genome Is Full of Viruses

Your body requires viruses, but viruses don’t always require a body

Ben Callif
Medical Myths and Models
Published in
6 min readJan 3, 2020

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Viruses use cellular mechanisms of transcription and translation (turning DNA to RNA and RNA to proteins) to replicate themselves and infect all kinds of living things. Image Credit: Arizona State University

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Ben Callif
Medical Myths and Models

Written by Ben Callif

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Author of Organumics: An Epigenetic Re-Framing of Consciousness, Life, and Evolution.

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