Is This How Viruses Actually Formed? Groundbreaking Biological Discovery

Anton Petrov July 2, 2025
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Anton Petrov

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My name is Anton and I explain science, math or other complicated topics using simulations, video games and easy to understand words. This is a (mostly) family friendly channel with the focus on science education. All of the videos are meant to be informative and will teach you fun facts about science you probably didn't know. So subscribe and stuff Because people keep asking me about background: -Bachelor of Science, McGill University (2006) -Worked as Astrobiology researcher in the Dr Hojatollah Vali lab at McGill -Master of Science and Math Education, University of Toronto (2014) -Math/Science/Coding teacher since 2007 in various schools, currently South Korea If you want to help this channel grow and want to donate a bitcoin or a satoshi, here's my wallet: bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF (send me a private message so I can put you in the permanent list of contributors) Thank you!

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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a discovery of a strange organism or ...something that is not bacteria and not a virus Links: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651781v1 #virus #archaea #biology 0:00 Question of the day: what is life? 1:20 Historical definitions and DNA discovery 2:10 Toxins that were too small 2:50 Crystallization of viruses and discovery of what they are 4:10 Bizarre new discovery - what exactly is this? 5:10 What the study was about 6:10 Strange new cellular entity 8:10 So what is this?? 10:10 Problems this creates 11:30 Conclusions Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: (Takuro Nakayama/University of Tsukuba Filip Husnik et al https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2821%2900747-8?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

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