Viruses with Deboki Chakravarti
Viruses with Deboki Chakravarti  
Podcast: SciShow Tangents
Published On: Tue Mar 03 2020
Description: Viruses are the subject of confusion & misinformation. Luckily, we have a friend who knows a lot about them! We sit down with microbiology genius Deboki Chakravarti to talk viruses. Be sure to check out more of Deboki’s work on Journey to the Microcosmos, and the upcoming Crash Course Organic Chemistry! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Tulipshttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/science/broken-tulips.htmlhttps://amsterdamtulipmuseumonline.com/blogs/tulip-facts/broken-tulips-the-beautiful-curseCoffinshttps://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/2016/12/21/then-there-were-no-coffinshttps://www.acf.org/the-american-chestnut/[Fact Off]Multicomponent Viruseshttps://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(16)30310-9https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160825141714.htmPolydnaviruseshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4424053/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758193/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123846846000264https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123848581000096https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553618/[Butt One More Thing]Caribou poop frozen virushttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/10/virus-resurrected-700-year-old-caribou-dunghttps://www.pnas.org/content/111/47/16842