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How life is encoded? Why are viruses mutating? How to compare two viruses, and where is the boundary between a new variant and a new virus? How did we find new strains of Covid? How do we know whether our vaccine is going to work against a new variant? We've discussed it with molecular biologist Laura Armbruster.

In this episode, I question a molecular biologist Laura Armbruster from Heidelberg University.  What does a typical virus look like? How big are viruses? Viruses are not living, what does that really mean? How to "kill" a virus? Where viruses come from if they a so different? Antibiotics vs viruses?  Vaccination vs bacteria? 

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