The business part of the virus is an RNA plan. Superficially it is indistinguishable from any of the other RNA working blueprints that are floating around, after being run off the bacterium’s DNA master. But if you read the small print of the viral RNA you will find something devilish written there. The letters spell out a plan for making RNA-replicase: for making machines that make more copies of the very same RNA plans, that make more machines that make more copies of the plans, that make more …
