We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.

- Carl Zimmer

When you get sick with the flu you get infected with flu viruses and they make lots of new flu viruses, but those new viruses are not exact copies of…

- Carl Zimmer

The only kinds of ways we have to deal with viruses are old school, so vaccines for example are very effective, but the first vaccines were invented …

- Carl Zimmer

About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is about 8.3% that's a viru…

- Carl Zimmer

The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.

- Carl Zimmer

There is some research that suggests that viruses like the flu are really actually kind of at the razor's edge when it comes to mutation. They're mut…

- Carl Zimmer

If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a…

- Carl Zimmer

Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that se…

- Carl Zimmer

Viruses don't just make us sick. They can actually sometimes end up in our genomes.

- Carl Zimmer