The Viruses That Shaped Humanity

You might get the impression that all viruses are terrible, awful, no-good things that just wreak havoc on humanity. But, surprise: The truth is way more interesting! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- SOURCES https://www.healthline.com/health/what-is-a-retrovirus#treatment https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1187282/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25658370 https://www.pnas.org/content/111/34/12426 biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2019/02/04/318329.full.pdf https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Gene-Expression https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17339369/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.10384#sec1-4 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.10384 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879625717300226 (PDF) http://edoc.mdc-berlin.de/16686/1/16686oa.pdf https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/fub188/23526/Dissertation_Manu_2017.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519309004895 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4503379/ https://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6277/1083 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2018.02039/full http://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/6/8/1457.full.pdf https://academic.oup.com/molehr/article/14/9/513/1168808 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1471491418300315 http://edoc.mdc-berlin.de/15357/1/15357oa.pdf Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SEM_blood_cells.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sperm-egg.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%91%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0_%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0_5-%D0%B5_%D1%81%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray26.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray34.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salivary_alpha-amylase_1SMD.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neutrophil_with_anthrax_copy.jpg https://phil.cdc.gov/Details.aspx?pid=22345