This is the coolest thing ever, not having to pay or go anywhere to learn stuff you are interested about, you can just sit in home and learn anything, this is the positive side of the internet
Thank you so much, Dr Racaniello. I'm a retired nuclear engineer who, when the Covid news first broke, decided I should know at least a little about virology. Never in a million years could I have imagined finding a full course of the quality of yours. I've taken the entire 28 hour course, the 10 hour Covid analysis and am now following your This Week in Virology. I lack the words to express my appreciation for your contribution to the greater knowledge.
this is a fascinating look at a hidden world . a few things have happened since my biology class in 69! i hope to hear all the lectures but i have to admit that Im relieved not to have to take an exam in the subject!
This is brilliant. I am 70 years of age with an inquisitive mind and I believe everyone who cares about this planet and what is on it, should watch and study this man's videos. Let up hope that when Covid 19 passes people realise that many material goods are not necessary to live a happy life. Also virogly should be compulsory in schools from an early age and encourage creative minds. What a fascinating subject and how good is it to be able to watch and learn from this person who has the gift of imparting knowledge? Thank you.
Thanks a lot for this new year of lectures. I am a PhD virologist in bordeaux and it is always a plessure to see them. I follow this Channel since 2016 and I am always surprise to learn some new details each year. Thanks
@@idrissyahmi52 yet if a virus is not living in the service in your cell then you can kill you cell my assumption is they degrade or become dormant (little info on this)... so what is a virus normally protected by? proton or possibly some kind of membrane? ..what brakes the protone shell I guess UV light need to see
@@simonsaas20 Protein coating can be degraded by UV-C light, concentrated proteolytic enzymes when taken on empty stomach, Argentyn 23 (silver hydrosol), without damaging the cell. Viral titer can be reduced by supporting patient's innate and acquired immune system via specific nutraceuticals. Must address dysbiosis in microbiome (75-80 % of immune system). I am a Functional Neurologist. You have to correct the gut to fix the brain.
Bonjour Guillaume, Je suis un etudiant americain qui va graduer avec un diplome de chimie et maths dans qqs semaines, et je pense aller en France la prochaine annee. J'ai fait mon recherche "undergraduate" dans la domaine de virologie et je me demandais ce sont quoi les opportunities de poursuivre les etudes superieures en France concernant la virologie. En fait, jai envoye une candidature de TAPIF (c'est un programme d'assistants de langue) et lorsque je suis en France j'aimerai bien explorer tous les choix a ma disposition. Est-ce que vous avez quelques conseils pour la suite? Je voudrais bien etre en contacte avec la communaute virologiste francaise et developper des connex. Et si jamais possible, j'aimerais apprendre de votre recherche et avoir l'occasion de travailler ensemble. Merci d'avance pour votre consideration, Evan
Back for another season of Racaniello's virology! I've been watching them since 2018 and now in my second course of virology at my own university (this time in my PhD in Immunology) Thanks for being so accessible (you've responded to me in the past) and for being an inspiration to the next generation of scientists. I pursued my dream of working with viruses and now happy to say that I'm in a lab studying HCMV :)
Can I ask what actually it means when they say "kill viruses"? As I know that we can't kill viruses it just inactivete. am i right? I'm confused with the word kill.
@@idrissyahmi52 You are absolutely right, we don't typically consider viruses alive (although I've had virology professors make the argument that you can consider them as part of life...albeit acellular life...) but "kill" gets tossed around when talking about viruses. My personal preference is to say inactivate or degrade because it removes ambiguity and the whole life debate. In practical terms, killed viruses cannot replicate to form new progeny however they may still elicit a strong immunological response as is the case in a "killed vaccine". So yes, I would say you are right but it is somewhat a debate of semantics, IMO. You can't kill what was never "alive" but you can inactivate or degrade it so that it can no longer cause disease if you were to put it into a new host. Hope that helps and if anyone has something to add or amend then I am open to suggestions :)
@@idrissyahmi52 I have been told that "correct" colloidal silver covers and smothers all single-cell pathogens I only get to learn about 650 germs and viruses & mold ..>>> tested so far , back in 2004
Thank you so much for your teaching! The excitement and love you have for the subject shines through in your lecture. I find it much easier to learn when the teacher is passionate about the subject they’re teaching.
Love his passion and the way he makes simple complicated subjects.! Thanks for posting it free. I am a physician far away from virology..and this is an excellent update to me.
Truly a great first lecture in the course. The lecture is very interesting and informative, and taught by a professor that obviously has an encyclopedic knowledge of virology.
This is extremely & timely & significantly important + comprehensive medical science subject that will enable us to be well informed and well equipped under such unprecedented situation for a long time. Thanks so much Prof. Racaniello to make this available to general public.
*Virology is not admissible in chemical police forensics in US an EU courts of law! The whole Covid-19 hype is because CHINA manufactures the "quinine" drug that Trump wants to sell. Quinine is called "chinin" in German and is extracted from the chinese "chincona tree bark". It is named after CHINA! The whole thing is Chinese. Quinine is made from the famous "China wood bark". But not because China wants to earn from thee West, but rather because CHINA is attacking the fraud of the UNAIDS, because of Chinese interests in Africa. Read more on ... **www.snake-antidote.com/coronavirus.html** Quinine is contained in Cobra Antidote and broad spectrum Snake Antidotes. They stop Malaria instantly.*
A big Thank you! Dr. Vicent Racaniello for giving us the opportunity to learn more about viruses in a way that is understandable and for making science available for anybody that wants to learn more.
Thanks for posting this. I'm not a student but this is very useful AND educational. People need to turn off the news. All that does is instill fear and that's the goal. Instead, learn about these threats and take that knowledge and apply it to your own life as well as you loved ones. Whatever happens is going to happen and how you deal with it is what counts. Fear weakens the immune system which in itself can make you sick. Don't do it!
Thank you for doing this. I was in DC area when anthrax was released in the mail. As well as mad cows disease, chronic waste disease and all associated with zoonoses. It got me interested in microbiology and such. Its become a study hobby, though I have no one to talk to about what I do learn. I appreciate your full series posted so people like myself can continue to learn.
You have my greatest gratitude professor. Thank you for making these videos available to everyone. My research has been postponed until no one knows when, therefore I can't finish my degree. A little depressed yes.. but then i saw your videos on my recommendation, your videos sparks my curiosity and motivation and give me a reason to not to stop learning. Therefore, somehow, it lessen my depression. Understanding the virus turns out to be an unexpected cure.
Very generous Dr. Racaniello ! So clear and mesmerizing I am glued to the topic, and I do not even have a college degree but Biology in general is fascinating, and your topic encompasses all aspects of the science. Thanks for your taking us all into consideration.
If more humans pursued education *outside* of their careers, humans might actually survive our brutal ending of the Holocene (there's no geological precedent for what we've done to the planet).
I had initially said my good byes to my Molecular Biology profession, But with turn out of not so encouraging state of the world, this content is what i have been looking for. Now i can confidently offer a tangible solution. Thank you, from Kenya.
I am a student in Media Technology. Thanks for the wonderful manner you have of explaining things and for sharing this with the world. It's interesting to me to make analogies with computer viruses.
I'm one of an old generation who haven't had a privilege background in education but I'm so fascinated in learning about these viruses. Thank you for your lecturing.
This is much more interesting than any Rom-com on Netflix , Hulu , Prime or Apple TV ! Thank God i found you , I am a retired RN , and i have a good idea of what Virus is all about . Didn’t get a good teacher in Microbiology in my Nursing class in the 1960’s , no interactive illustrations , just like you have . we were only relying on our pictures in our books and looking through a microscope . Thank you
I really like the lecturer. He explains things well and has a genuine passion for the subject. I wish I had encountered more professors like him when I was in college.
Thank you for these lecture. Plenty of interesting information and very illustrative. I'm a Dentist/Orthodontist living in Florida learning more today with you
I am a retired electronic engineer and I have always wonder how is it possible for our planet to have developped such complex molecular processes, and assembled them to lead to us e.g. and to all other living organisms, This in less than 4.5 billion years ? A great mysterie.
Thanks for posting this. I’m a PhD Microbiologist from many years ago, but most of my experience is with anaerobic bacterial pathogens (botulism and it’s neurotoxin) and bacteriophages in lactic acid bacteria. I had one virology class and have pretty much forgotten all I ever learned. I so appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
Back in the dawn of time when I was a biochemistry/microbiology major, virology was ONE course. Now... virus junk fills the space allotted! Well, I know what my brain time will be filled with for the foreseeable future. Thanks so much for making this course available.
Thank you very much for posting these lectures. I wasn't able to afford to go to university, but I've had an avid interest in science all my life. I've always found viruses interesting, and these lectures have opened a whole new pathway for me to continue to learn, Sure, I'm going to have to do some in depth research on concepts that may come up in the course that I may not fully understand, but that's what the pause function is for (ie: go look up what the hell mRNA is (my guess; messenger RNA)). To me, this is what science is supposed to be all about..the sharing of knowledge. Again, thank you very much! :-)
Dan Strelek - Good for you, man. There's nothing like learning, improving and growing. I have had the good fortune to attend five universities in three countries - right through my Ph.D. - and let me tell you: 90% of what I have learned, I have learned myself through independent research. Good to start with the very basics. Short overviews, and then delve into the details, so you know which branch your on. And remember: everything is provisional. All science does is create provisional models of a part of the universe. As soon as a better model is created, the old ones are set aside. An exciting process of discovery. Happy Easter!
I took virology as a part of my Master's Degree about 15 years ago. I currently teach Science, and am brushing up on the topic for my students. Great opportunity for me, as well as for my students. Thanks for doing this!
Can I ask what actually it means when they say "kill viruses"? As I know that we can't kill viruses it just inactivete. am i right? Are we actually kill viruses. So they die?
Thank you sir ☺️ for this amazing video. I am a student of Veterinary from Nepal and want to drive my career to zoonotic virology . I believe including these ,upcoming videos will definitely help me
Me too, but why do you have to say 'God'? It's disappointing to me that someone with an interest in science is not smart enough to rise above the belief in supernatural beings... I hope it's just a figure of speech, so you say God and I'll say 'say10'. lol
@@mirceatube What a conceited and condescending comment. People choose what words they use to say what they want to say. You don't get to police other people's use of language.
@@mirceatube Dude are you aware, that saying 'God' in a sentence has been a figure of speech for like 40+ years? This is just a humble brag, but above all it's a weird flex, look at me, I'm so intelligent, I don't believe in God. There is an incredible ego behind your statements and it's not pretty...
Thank you for this lectures.. This is how I imagine that university would be like before I went to it... It was a disappointment but I am beginning to recover my faith after this lecture... Most enjoyable and free! Many thanks!
A very informative and useful series of lectures; despite the college senior level course number, the professor does not leave one in the dust as he explains everything and if one did a decent job of secondary school and undergraduate level biology it is easy to keep up and learn many new things. The professor's passion for the subject matter is, well, infectious . . .
I'm a first year med tech student and I want to learn more about these kind of things. I gotta say, your lectures fascinates me. Our educational curriculum sucks so I need to seek answers on the internet to learn more about my courses and then, I found you! Thank you for making this lectures for free and I hope to see more!
Vincent Racaniello your video is helping me so much and I'm sharing it with my fellow citizens of Roskilde, Denmark. How wonderful that people of knowlegde and you share your knowledge free to so many people world wide..! Your video helps the local society of Roskilde know about virus and will help us deal and collaborate with and about Covid-19..! Thank you for your great gift to humanity..!
I am a poet but I have studied telecommunications and other things including literature, art, etc. And at 72 I am still fascinated by viruses (it is true this coronavirus crisis or whatever it is has brought me here). I started getting interested about 1964 or so. At that stage there wasn't much about viruses. Although in an old book I saw electon micrographs of them on bacteria etc. My brother studied chem and biochem and I think he wrote where it says 'Viruses don't have enzymes'... "OUT OF DATE" so either he was right or the complexity of the mechanisms of the action of viruses were still not too clear. Still even that book is fascinating. Includes bacteria, fungi etc, and some types of viruses. Also then in Life mag. there were fascinating images or models of cells. I didn't continue with science but retain some interest. This was a great lecture. I was reading a book by Flaubert and get to this!
Thank you so much for uploading this. I did my undergrad in cell bio and this lecture series (and recent events...) has sparked me pursuing post graduate specialization in this area. Thats the plan anyway!
This is what they should tell us during the daily press release.Educate us and this will set us free not necessarily safe of course unless we follow the basic rules of prevention.
There are not enough hours in each day for me. This series is fascinating. Great Professor, thank you for the opportunity to learn about viruses, who would have thought them such fun!
I am a renewable energy student, but as a fan of life-long learning and learning diverse subjects and of course, given the current Corona situation.. I started this lecture and wow! You sir, are an amazing teacher. I understood everything! I will report to you once I finish the whole series :)
Go Quarantine!!! Marketing Manager here (development consultant turned, so, I'm not a total YKW, but yeah, unfortunately). Never studied a word of bio in my life, but reached here trying to understand the infection that seems to have almost killed Capitalism pretty much, (it's on a ventilator but it's not looking good at all, I don't think it'll make it through the night) but so far so good (re: Steve McQueen, Magnificent Seven). Thank you Professor! Please continue.
Watching this to study for molecular bio. Much more detail on viruses than I need for that course, but it’s such an amazing lecture that I couldn’t stop watching.
This is an enlightening video. Such enlightenment for me is propelled not only by the truth of the science of which you speak so well, but also by the compression of the dangers to mankind of such possible pandemics of the proportion we at this instant are trying to fathom and master in the Covid-19 outbreak. You are most generous to offer this, and I for one will be here to imbibe your lectures. You made me embrace theoretical biology conceptually in a new light, past "Invertebrates" by Brusca & Brusca that had previously deeply affected me and more fully opened my mind to geologic time as it relates to evolution. It is as if before hearing this science as you teach it, viruses were for me indeed the vacuity without which I could not understand so fully how life may really have evolved. Now I can see new ways life could have evolved via viruses partly since their outstanding attribute is to lie lifeless or disengaged over great time, yet enlivening when information compatibility with other entities becomes seemingly by happenstance available. One point, please: your idea of seeing viruses as bi-phasic as to biotic/abiotic is succinct in my way of thinking as well -- I had never heard it, and I harmonize with it. Maybe one day there will be a new classification of viruses in biology if scientists can unravel how viruses contributed to the birth of the living cell as if viruses could become traced somehow as an actual, real bridge from the dead to the living in the sense of origination of life itself evolutionarily. It is as if the world of the living speaks to the scientific mind through the agency of the "abiotic" entity, the virus, which can also hide in death, playing possum at it were, as we see it sometimes -- that is, to know something, consider also its opposite. Consider the living by knowing the lifeless phase of the simple virus but in geologic time and even in the famous primordial chemical soup. The loss of nucleic acids that do not last over time becomes the stumper in that regard; so even as the Scientific Revolution found its origins in knowledge of life's creatures as an evolving set of beings through the fossil record -- no longer were such beings to be so absolutely by dictate theologically disposed to creationism -- there can be no fossils available of the ancient viral genomes? What a loss. Sheer function is at hand, for the structure of a virus is not gross unto the human eye and contained in organic matter as in the other aisle of science -- rocks, the macroscopic upon the surface of this "living" planet; for it was the rocks of the Earth that turned the human intellect into what it became (besides astronomy.) Can information that is codified in the viral genome leave footprints of time using mathematical recession analyses back into time by certain laws of probability and a comparison of order to entropy tendencies? How would the factor of mutation be either factored in or out of such a brave analysis? My quest if I were actively working in science would be to see if there is some hidden information in a virus's genome that is primary as a determinant precisely to its biotic phase of existence; for if there were such a determinant of phasic realization or expression of the virus, the scientist could perhaps find and destroy that sequence or mosaic of sequences so as to block the rise of pandemics with no need for vaccines which must be periodically updated as the virus mutates. This quest for me in my mind to find the magic of the virus as it turns from docile virion to an active infestation came before I found your course in virology much as in the desperate defense of mankind' s world peace as I saw the Covid-19 pandemic rise; and I would pray that science would pioneer if it is not already doing so in that very quest. Information metadata in the world of virology would turn the microbial world into a world more akin to the expansive world of astronomy that was born of the human eye's kinship with light. Anyway, back to the practical! Many thanks to you, Professor Racaniello, for that knowledge I found as you introduce virology in this lecture. I am deeply inspired, Marilynn Stark Barnard '72
Super helpful, especially now. Wonderful to have this video course to inform and understand the mechanics. A much better option than fearing what we do not know - not to mention, it is fascinating. It is like discovering a new universe. Thank you for sharing!
Can I ask what actually it means when they say "kill viruses"? As I know that we can't kill viruses it just inactivete. am i right? I'm confused with the term kill
Been said but worth saying again, thank you so much for providing this important, high quality information for free on RUclips. That is a great service!
wow....if only I found you a long time ago. I am doing short courses through the universities and I find them bias and not teaching correctly. This is brilliant.
Absolutely fascinating. Somehow makes me regret that I didn't take the chance to study medicine in the early 90s. Thank you very much for sharing this.
I can't believe I'm assisting to an amazing virologist and scientist from an american University. Thank you for making this amazing course online, it will definitely help me understand more about this integrative science "Virology".I wouldn't know about your book of "Principles of Virology" without my professor of Molecular Virology who recommended to us to read your book, and which we have exam on it. I also want to add something, my mind can't believe what is happening right now!, your way of explaining viruses shows that you are very passionate about them. I have one only question out of the subject, and weird too... And I hope I get an answer from you, why you are doing this and you are putting your AMAZING EXPLANATIONS online?, because lot of professors in my university don't even accept to share their slides or put them online to the public. Thank you again for this great job!
Professor Vincent Racaniello, thank you for your in depth lectures about viruses. I find them absolutely fascinating, so far I am up to Lecture 6. Cheers
This is the coolest thing ever, not having to pay or go anywhere to learn stuff you are interested about, you can just sit in home and learn anything, this is the positive side of the internet
Thank you so much, Dr Racaniello. I'm a retired nuclear engineer who, when the Covid news first broke, decided I should know at least a little about virology. Never in a million years could I have imagined finding a full course of the quality of yours. I've taken the entire 28 hour course, the 10 hour Covid analysis and am now following your This Week in Virology. I lack the words to express my appreciation for your contribution to the greater knowledge.
This is the most professional, comprehensive, and valuable video instruction on virology.
We do appreciate your contributions!
Thank you, we are so lucky to have this course made public!
Thank you so much for making this available online for free!
this is a fascinating look at a hidden world . a few things have happened since my biology class in 69! i hope to hear all the lectures but i have to admit that Im relieved not to have to take an exam in the subject!
Exactly what I was thinking. This is the lecture series I've been waiting years for.
I second that thanks!👌👌
You can say that multiplied many times over constantly using a host subject.
We three
Some people just have a talent for explaining really difficult concepts in a very digestible fashion! Hats off to you, sir :-)
This is brilliant. I am 70 years of age with an inquisitive mind and I believe everyone who cares about this planet and what is on it, should watch and study this man's videos. Let up hope that when Covid 19 passes people realise that many material goods are not necessary to live a happy life. Also virogly should be compulsory in schools from an early age and encourage creative minds. What a fascinating subject and how good is it to be able to watch and learn from this person who has the gift of imparting knowledge? Thank you.
wow, outstanding, IM applying medical school in 2023 as a Respiratory therapist for 23 years I see this is helpful in my next Biochem class
Thanks a lot for this new year of lectures. I am a PhD virologist in bordeaux and it is always a plessure to see them. I follow this Channel since 2016 and I am always surprise to learn some new details each year. Thanks
Hmm can we kill a virus?
@@idrissyahmi52 yet if a virus is not living in the service in your cell then you can kill you cell my assumption is they degrade or become dormant (little info on this)... so what is a virus normally protected by? proton or possibly some kind of membrane? ..what brakes the protone shell I guess UV light need to see
@@simonsaas20 Protein coating can be degraded by UV-C light, concentrated proteolytic enzymes when taken on empty stomach, Argentyn 23 (silver hydrosol), without damaging the cell. Viral titer can be reduced by supporting patient's innate and acquired immune system via specific nutraceuticals. Must address dysbiosis in microbiome (75-80 % of immune system). I am a Functional Neurologist. You have to correct the gut to fix the brain.
Bonjour Guillaume
Quel est votre position actuelle sur l'évolution de la pandémie et sur les perspectives liées au déconfinement français ?
Bonjour Guillaume,
Je suis un etudiant americain qui va graduer avec un diplome de chimie et maths dans qqs semaines, et je pense aller en France la prochaine annee. J'ai fait mon recherche "undergraduate" dans la domaine de virologie et je me demandais ce sont quoi les opportunities de poursuivre les etudes superieures en France concernant la virologie. En fait, jai envoye une candidature de TAPIF (c'est un programme d'assistants de langue) et lorsque je suis en France j'aimerai bien explorer tous les choix a ma disposition. Est-ce que vous avez quelques conseils pour la suite? Je voudrais bien etre en contacte avec la communaute virologiste francaise et developper des connex. Et si jamais possible, j'aimerais apprendre de votre recherche et avoir l'occasion de travailler ensemble.
Merci d'avance pour votre consideration,
Evan
I'm a master student in mechanical engineering, I came for fun and stayed for pleasure!
Thanks a lot for the lecture :)
Back for another season of Racaniello's virology! I've been watching them since 2018 and now in my second course of virology at my own university (this time in my PhD in Immunology) Thanks for being so accessible (you've responded to me in the past) and for being an inspiration to the next generation of scientists. I pursued my dream of working with viruses and now happy to say that I'm in a lab studying HCMV :)
Can I ask what actually it means when they say "kill viruses"? As I know that we can't kill viruses it just inactivete. am i right? I'm confused with the word kill.
@@idrissyahmi52 You are absolutely right, we don't typically consider viruses alive (although I've had virology professors make the argument that you can consider them as part of life...albeit acellular life...) but "kill" gets tossed around when talking about viruses. My personal preference is to say inactivate or degrade because it removes ambiguity and the whole life debate. In practical terms, killed viruses cannot replicate to form new progeny however they may still elicit a strong immunological response as is the case in a "killed vaccine". So yes, I would say you are right but it is somewhat a debate of semantics, IMO. You can't kill what was never "alive" but you can inactivate or degrade it so that it can no longer cause disease if you were to put it into a new host. Hope that helps and if anyone has something to add or amend then I am open to suggestions :)
@@ianmatthewkline8279 thanks for explanation
What's it like being a virologist? I wonder a lot about it
@@idrissyahmi52 I have been told that "correct" colloidal silver covers and smothers all single-cell pathogens I only get to learn about 650 germs and viruses & mold ..>>> tested so far , back in 2004
Thank you so much for your teaching! The excitement and love you have for the subject shines through in your lecture. I find it much easier to learn when the teacher is passionate about the subject they’re teaching.
You're beautiful. Wanna be pen pals? 😷👨⚕️
Love his passion and the way he makes simple complicated subjects.! Thanks for posting it free. I am a physician far away from virology..and this is an excellent update to me.
The fact that this kind of materials made available by prof Vincent Racaniello is insane, thank you so very much!
Moving forward, I think virology 101 should be something EVERY student has to study before graduating HS. Along with several finance classes
I vaguely recall seeing critters in my junior high school biology class, but then, boys were much more interesting than cells and such.
Yeah but too bad finances don't replicate as fast as viruses do!
Im With You On This... :)
I learned about viruses in biology class
EEEEEYH,i dont want critical thinkers! you moron!
i need obedeant workers....SLAVES!
greets,Rothschields.
Truly a great first lecture in the course. The lecture is very interesting and informative, and taught by a professor that obviously has an encyclopedic knowledge of virology.
Thank you Professor - you're a gifted and generous man. I'm learning a LOT about viruses from you. Respect from Santa Monica, California.
This is extremely & timely & significantly important + comprehensive medical science subject that will enable us to be well informed and well equipped under such unprecedented situation for a long time. Thanks so much Prof. Racaniello to make this available to general public.
What an incredible resource to share for free. Amazing!
there are tons of these on every subject. youtube is an amazing resource. its been feeding my brain for many years :)
*Virology is not admissible in chemical police forensics in US an EU courts of law! The whole Covid-19 hype is because CHINA manufactures the "quinine" drug that Trump wants to sell. Quinine is called "chinin" in German and is extracted from the chinese "chincona tree bark". It is named after CHINA! The whole thing is Chinese. Quinine is made from the famous "China wood bark". But not because China wants to earn from thee West, but rather because CHINA is attacking the fraud of the UNAIDS, because of Chinese interests in Africa. Read more on ... **www.snake-antidote.com/coronavirus.html** Quinine is contained in Cobra Antidote and broad spectrum Snake Antidotes. They stop Malaria instantly.*
Knowledge is there for humanity to gain and to give. The problem is that "educational" institutions want to have monopoly over it.
@@Mathin3D *Yepp! You are right, but natural nature fights back!*
Not incredible remarkable
Amaze the informed and frighten the uninformed. Well said Professor. 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽👏🏾👏🏾
A big Thank you! Dr. Vicent Racaniello for giving us the opportunity to learn more about viruses in a way that is understandable and for making science available for anybody that wants to learn more.
I am taking Prof. Racaniello' s course this year. very good video , always be helpful to clarify things after each class.
I have a fascination for viruses. I just found your channel and an obsessed. Thank you so much for making your channel available.
I feel exactly the same. So much fascination
Thanks for posting this. I'm not a student but this is very useful AND educational. People need to turn off the news. All that does is instill fear and that's the goal. Instead, learn about these threats and take that knowledge and apply it to your own life as well as you loved ones. Whatever happens is going to happen and how you deal with it is what counts. Fear weakens the immune system which in itself can make you sick. Don't do it!
F. Crazybone: Your wise comment is one of the very best here imho. Lol
Every teacher should record these lectures like this.
Thx. Never thougth i would say this one day but : more virology! You're an excellent teacher.
Thank you for doing this. I was in DC area when anthrax was released in the mail. As well as mad cows disease, chronic waste disease and all associated with zoonoses. It got me interested in microbiology and such. Its become a study hobby, though I have no one to talk to about what I do learn. I appreciate your full series posted so people like myself can continue to learn.
You have my greatest gratitude professor. Thank you for making these videos available to everyone. My research has been postponed until no one knows when, therefore I can't finish my degree. A little depressed yes.. but then i saw your videos on my recommendation, your videos sparks my curiosity and motivation and give me a reason to not to stop learning. Therefore, somehow, it lessen my depression. Understanding the virus turns out to be an unexpected cure.
Very generous Dr. Racaniello ! So clear and mesmerizing I am glued to the topic, and I do not even have a college degree but Biology in general is fascinating, and your topic encompasses all aspects of the science. Thanks for your taking us all into consideration.
I don’t need to go back to school just to get educated about virus. Thank you for uploading videos.
If more humans pursued education *outside* of their careers, humans might actually survive our brutal ending of the Holocene (there's no geological precedent for what we've done to the planet).
Thank you for being so passionate about what you do and sharing it with the world.
I love the drone catching whale breath samples for study of viruses
Yeah, who woulda thought they had something like that? What will they think of next? lol
How can you not love this guy for sharing such valuable information. Awesome!
I have been following your lectures for some time, and I look forward to this year's, Prof. Racaniello.
I’m a nurse. Thank you for giving me understandable information I can pass on to others.
I had initially said my good byes to my Molecular Biology profession, But with turn out of not so encouraging state of the world, this content is what i have been looking for. Now i can confidently offer a tangible solution. Thank you, from Kenya.
And yet, there is a whole new world when considering the utility of viruses in biotechnology! Thank you so much for this interesting lesson Professor!
I am a student in Media Technology. Thanks for the wonderful manner you have of explaining things and for sharing this with the world. It's interesting to me to make analogies with computer viruses.
I love this course. I am not a med student. I am a pharmaceutical sales rep. I sell an anti-viral. Thanks so much. Awesome.
I'm one of an old generation who haven't had a privilege background in education but I'm so fascinated in learning about these viruses. Thank you for your lecturing.
This is much more interesting than any Rom-com on Netflix , Hulu , Prime or Apple TV ! Thank God i found you , I am a retired RN , and i have a good idea of what Virus is all about . Didn’t get a good teacher in Microbiology in my Nursing class in the 1960’s , no interactive illustrations , just like you have . we were only relying on our pictures in our books and looking through a microscope . Thank you
Thank you for recording and providing this for free. I am a housewife with no college degree but I love learning and I love viruses too! Who knew?! 😃
I really like the lecturer. He explains things well and has a genuine passion for the subject. I wish I had encountered more professors like him when I was in college.
Thank you for these lecture. Plenty of interesting information and very illustrative. I'm a Dentist/Orthodontist living in Florida learning more today with you
I am a retired electronic engineer and I have always wonder how is it possible for our planet to have developped such complex molecular processes, and assembled them to lead to us e.g. and to all other living organisms, This in less than 4.5 billion years ? A great mysterie.
This is amazing! very easy to understand and fun course to watch !
I’ve listen to the other previous playlists before covid, just to fall asleep. Yeah the Professor is the truth.
A new year and an updated course. Look forward to following along again.
Learning about viruses makes them seem less scary to me. I don't think many others share my point of view. Thank you for posting these lectures.
Your lectures are going strong prof. Racaniello . I am not a virologist but took this course it 20 years ago as an undergraduate student.
Thanks for posting this. I’m a PhD Microbiologist from many years ago, but most of my experience is with anaerobic bacterial pathogens (botulism and it’s neurotoxin) and bacteriophages in lactic acid bacteria. I had one virology class and have pretty much forgotten all I ever learned. I so appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
Back in the dawn of time when I was a biochemistry/microbiology major, virology was ONE course. Now... virus junk fills the space allotted! Well, I know what my brain time will be filled with for the foreseeable future. Thanks so much for making this course available.
Thank you very much for posting these lectures. I wasn't able to afford to go to university, but I've had an avid interest in science all my life. I've always found viruses interesting, and these lectures have opened a whole new pathway for me to continue to learn, Sure, I'm going to have to do some in depth research on concepts that may come up in the course that I may not fully understand, but that's what the pause function is for (ie: go look up what the hell mRNA is (my guess; messenger RNA)). To me, this is what science is supposed to be all about..the sharing of knowledge. Again, thank you very much! :-)
Dan Strelek - Good for you, man. There's nothing like learning, improving and growing. I have had the good fortune to attend five universities in three countries - right through my Ph.D. - and let me tell you: 90% of what I have learned, I have learned myself through independent research. Good to start with the very basics. Short overviews, and then delve into the details, so you know which branch your on. And remember: everything is provisional. All science does is create provisional models of a part of the universe. As soon as a better model is created, the old ones are set aside. An exciting process of discovery. Happy Easter!
@@virvisquevir3320 Thank you for your comment, and Happy Easter to you as well! :-)
I took virology as a part of my Master's Degree about 15 years ago. I currently teach
Science, and am brushing up on the topic for my students. Great opportunity for me, as well as for my students. Thanks for doing this!
Can I ask what actually it means when they say "kill viruses"? As I know that we can't kill viruses it just inactivete. am i right? Are we actually kill viruses. So they die?
@@idrissyahmi52 They mean inactivate in such a way that they cannot infiltrate or replicate.
I am a 66YO former Caltech Molecular Biologist/CFO and just want to extend my knowledge
Thank you sir ☺️ for this amazing video. I am a student of Veterinary from Nepal and want to drive my career to zoonotic virology . I believe including these ,upcoming videos will definitely help me
Unlike love, herpes is forever. God I love when he throws in some humor in the lectures. xD
tears in my eyes
Me too, but why do you have to say 'God'? It's disappointing to me that someone with an interest in science is not smart enough to rise above the belief in supernatural beings...
I hope it's just a figure of speech, so you say God and I'll say 'say10'. lol
@@mirceatube What a conceited and condescending comment. People choose what words they use to say what they want to say. You don't get to police other people's use of language.
@@mirceatube Dude are you aware, that saying 'God' in a sentence has been a figure of speech for like 40+ years? This is just a humble brag, but above all it's a weird flex, look at me, I'm so intelligent, I don't believe in God.
There is an incredible ego behind your statements and it's not pretty...
He said "Jehovah!" Stone him!
"I absolutely love viruses" - Dr. Vincent Racaniello
I think he lies to persuade his students.
Scary
Thank you for this lectures.. This is how I imagine that university would be like before I went to it... It was a disappointment but I am beginning to recover my faith after this lecture... Most enjoyable and free! Many thanks!
A very informative and useful series of lectures; despite the college senior level course number, the professor does not leave one in the dust as he explains everything and if one did a decent job of secondary school and undergraduate level biology it is easy to keep up and learn many new things. The professor's passion for the subject matter is, well, infectious . . .
I'm a first year med tech student and I want to learn more about these kind of things. I gotta say, your lectures fascinates me. Our educational curriculum sucks so I need to seek answers on the internet to learn more about my courses and then, I found you! Thank you for making this lectures for free and I hope to see more!
Vincent Racaniello your video is helping me so much and I'm sharing it with my fellow citizens of Roskilde, Denmark.
How wonderful that people of knowlegde and you share your knowledge free to so many people world wide..!
Your video helps the local society of Roskilde know about virus and will help us deal and collaborate with and about Covid-19..!
Thank you for your great gift to humanity..!
I am a poet but I have studied telecommunications and other things including literature, art, etc. And at 72 I am still fascinated by viruses (it is true this coronavirus crisis or whatever it is has brought me here). I started getting interested about 1964 or so. At that stage there wasn't much about viruses. Although in an old book I saw electon micrographs of them on bacteria etc. My brother studied chem and biochem and I think he wrote where it says 'Viruses don't have enzymes'... "OUT OF DATE" so either he was right or the complexity of the mechanisms of the action of viruses were still not too clear. Still even that book is fascinating. Includes bacteria, fungi etc, and some types of viruses. Also then in Life mag. there were fascinating images or models of cells. I didn't continue with science but retain some interest. This was a great lecture. I was reading a book by Flaubert and get to this!
Thank you so much for uploading this. I did my undergrad in cell bio and this lecture series (and recent events...) has sparked me pursuing post graduate specialization in this area. Thats the plan anyway!
This is what they should tell us during the daily press release.Educate us and this will set us free not necessarily safe of course unless we follow the basic rules of prevention.
There are not enough hours in each day for me. This series is fascinating. Great Professor, thank you for the opportunity to learn about viruses, who would have thought them such fun!
I am a renewable energy student, but as a fan of life-long learning and learning diverse subjects and of course, given the current Corona situation.. I started this lecture and wow! You sir, are an amazing teacher. I understood everything! I will report to you once I finish the whole series :)
Same! I am doing my thesis on estuaries (environmental engineering) but I stumbled upon this whilst on quarantine.
Go Quarantine!!! Marketing Manager here (development consultant turned, so, I'm not a total YKW, but yeah, unfortunately). Never studied a word of bio in my life, but reached here trying to understand the infection that seems to have almost killed Capitalism pretty much, (it's on a ventilator but it's not looking good at all, I don't think it'll make it through the night) but so far so good (re: Steve McQueen, Magnificent Seven). Thank you Professor! Please continue.
The coolest thing that exists? Hes passionate.
i get what he means, but it seems a bit of a dark thing to say these days now lol
I discovered your lectures/podcasts early last year and have never been disappointed.
Watching this to study for molecular bio. Much more detail on viruses than I need for that course, but it’s such an amazing lecture that I couldn’t stop watching.
This is an enlightening video. Such enlightenment for me is propelled not only by the truth of the science of which you speak so well, but also by the compression of the dangers to mankind of such possible pandemics of the proportion we at this instant are trying to fathom and master in the Covid-19 outbreak. You are most generous to offer this, and I for one will be here to imbibe your lectures. You made me embrace theoretical biology conceptually in a new light, past "Invertebrates" by Brusca & Brusca that had previously deeply affected me and more fully opened my mind to geologic time as it relates to evolution. It is as if before hearing this science as you teach it, viruses were for me indeed the vacuity without which I could not understand so fully how life may really have evolved. Now I can see new ways life could have evolved via viruses partly since their outstanding attribute is to lie lifeless or disengaged over great time, yet enlivening when information compatibility with other entities becomes seemingly by happenstance available. One point, please: your idea of seeing viruses as bi-phasic as to biotic/abiotic is succinct in my way of thinking as well -- I had never heard it, and I harmonize with it. Maybe one day there will be a new classification of viruses in biology if scientists can unravel how viruses contributed to the birth of the living cell as if viruses could become traced somehow as an actual, real bridge from the dead to the living in the sense of origination of life itself evolutionarily. It is as if the world of the living speaks to the scientific mind through the agency of the "abiotic" entity, the virus, which can also hide in death, playing possum at it were, as we see it sometimes -- that is, to know something, consider also its opposite. Consider the living by knowing the lifeless phase of the simple virus but in geologic time and even in the famous primordial chemical soup. The loss of nucleic acids that do not last over time becomes the stumper in that regard; so even as the Scientific Revolution found its origins in knowledge of life's creatures as an evolving set of beings through the fossil record -- no longer were such beings to be so absolutely by dictate theologically disposed to creationism -- there can be no fossils available of the ancient viral genomes? What a loss. Sheer function is at hand, for the structure of a virus is not gross unto the human eye and contained in organic matter as in the other aisle of science -- rocks, the macroscopic upon the surface of this "living" planet; for it was the rocks of the Earth that turned the human intellect into what it became (besides astronomy.) Can information that is codified in the viral genome leave footprints of time using mathematical recession analyses back into time by certain laws of probability and a comparison of order to entropy tendencies? How would the factor of mutation be either factored in or out of such a brave analysis? My quest if I were actively working in science would be to see if there is some hidden information in a virus's genome that is primary as a determinant precisely to its biotic phase of existence; for if there were such a determinant of phasic realization or expression of the virus, the scientist could perhaps find and destroy that sequence or mosaic of sequences so as to block the rise of pandemics with no need for vaccines which must be periodically updated as the virus mutates. This quest for me in my mind to find the magic of the virus as it turns from docile virion to an active infestation came before I found your course in virology much as in the desperate defense of mankind' s world peace as I saw the Covid-19 pandemic rise; and I would pray that science would pioneer if it is not already doing so in that very quest. Information metadata in the world of virology would turn the microbial world into a world more akin to the expansive world of astronomy that was born of the human eye's kinship with light. Anyway, back to the practical! Many thanks to you, Professor Racaniello, for that knowledge I found as you introduce virology in this lecture. I am deeply inspired, Marilynn Stark Barnard '72
I started at lecture #5 and watched a few. This is an amazing resource for curious people! Thank you very much!
Super helpful, especially now. Wonderful to have this video course to inform and understand the mechanics. A much better option than fearing what we do not know - not to mention, it is fascinating. It is like discovering a new universe. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you prof, i'm a Phd student in virology and i love your courses!!
What's studying viruses like? I wonder about virology a lot.
Another wonderful set of lectures ahead. I hope you will spend more time on the origin and evolution of our little friends. Thank you.
Thank you for making these resources available to us! I really appreciate it!
taking a virology course this semester i cant thank you enough for simplifying it for me for free
thanks you its a great ofer indeed
Can I ask what actually it means when they say "kill viruses"? As I know that we can't kill viruses it just inactivete. am i right? I'm confused with the term kill
This is perfect! Thank you so much for making this public!
Amazing! Thank you so much for this wonderful lecture.
Thanks for sharing your life’s hard work and bringing understanding on a fascinating subject
Been said but worth saying again, thank you so much for providing this important, high quality information for free on RUclips. That is a great service!
Thank You SOOOO SOOOO Much!!! WOW, I am in shock with this first lecture and cant wait to see the rest of the lectures!!!
Although I'm 13 and won't go to college for maybe 5 more years, I am really fascinated by diseases. I really want to become a Virolgist at the CDC
wow....if only I found you a long time ago. I am doing short courses through the universities and I find them bias and not teaching correctly.
This is brilliant.
I'm here for revision and CPD. What a goldmine!!
Absolutely fascinating. Somehow makes me regret that I didn't take the chance to study medicine in the early 90s. Thank you very much for sharing this.
Dr. Racaniello you really are one of the coolest people EVER.
I can't believe I'm assisting to an amazing virologist and scientist from an american University. Thank you for making this amazing course online, it will definitely help me understand more about this integrative science "Virology".I wouldn't know about your book of "Principles of Virology" without my professor of Molecular Virology who recommended to us to read your book, and which we have exam on it.
I also want to add something, my mind can't believe what is happening right now!, your way of explaining viruses shows that you are very passionate about them. I have one only question out of the subject, and weird too... And I hope I get an answer from you, why you are doing this and you are putting your AMAZING EXPLANATIONS online?, because lot of professors in my university don't even accept to share their slides or put them online to the public.
Thank you again for this great job!
Can I ask what actually it means when they say "kill viruses"? As I know that we can't kill viruses it just inactivete. am i right?
Outstanding presentation and wonderful use of digital technology to share timely and important information.
Took 1 microbiology course and here I am watching this for fun very informative thank you.
Brilliant lecture and overview. So grateful to have access to this. Thank you Professor Vincent Racaniello.
Thank you Prof. Racaniello, my perspective on viruses have completely changed in a good way...
Yay! My new RUclips profesor:)
Great to thing to study and pass the time while you're sheltering in place from Covid-19. Thanks.
Professor Vincent Racaniello, thank you for your in depth lectures about viruses. I find them absolutely fascinating, so far I am up to Lecture 6. Cheers
An amazing survey delivered by an exceptional lecturer.
Thank you so very much for making this course available. I also enjoy your podcasts very much.
Vincent Racaniello.............The GOD of Virology..Excellent.
Kindly prof point with your mouse while explain the lecture because in some points it’s so hard to focus on which part you are talking about
this really should have 3.3 hundred million views, not 3.3 thousand. Thank you for this, amazing!!!