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[–]yetanotherone_sigh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

10,000 hours? And you think viruses don't exist? We have photos of them.

[–]Alphix[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No, those are photos of exosomes. They made you believe exosomes are "viruses".

[–]yetanotherone_sigh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Okay, since I really do not want to go down a rabbit hole, explain to me what an exosome is. Obviously you are gonna say it's a thing with chromosomes in it that is external to a cell. And exactly how is that different than a "virus"?

[–]Alphix[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's a tiny vesicle containing genetic information that a cell naturally expresses in order to communicate to other cells about an attack it is being subjected to.

When you damage, stress, or poison a cell, or otherwise harm it, it will often express exosomes.

The early "virus" researchers used a variety of specific poisons and techniques in order to get cells to express specific exosomes. Later, these poisons were standardized into "test kits" which readily will cause a cell to express a given exosome. They call those "virus" "testing kits".