The “First Replicon” on Earth? A Chat With Virologist Ricardo Flores

Ricardo Flores thinks viruses may be  “the most important faction of the [planet’s] biomass” and that a viroid-like entity is a prime candidate for the first replicon on Earth. Viroids are subviral world parasites, non-protein coding RNAs. Excerpts of our interview follow.

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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