Written and illustrated by: Madison Pletan
Edited by: Sarah Bassiouni, Claire Shudde, Sophie Maxfield, and Jennifer Baker
Imagine you’re a virus—a tiny shell of proteins surrounding some DNA or RNA. Your one mission is to infiltrate a living cell, navigate through its complicated compartments, and ultimately hijack it to make hundreds or even thousands of copies of yourself to perpetuate infection. As a virus, you are unable to multiply on your own. Since you lack the machinery to make new proteins and genetic material, you must enter a cell if you are to survive.
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