The social lives of viruses | Asher Leeks | TEDxNewEngland

[Music] I would like you to picture a virus. What do you see. Perhaps you see a single viral particle infecting a cell.If you do, then you're not alone. The textbook image of a virus as a particle is taught in schools and in universities. that underpin scientific efforts to understand viruses as well as medical efforts to treat them.But today, I would like us to begin to paint a new picture of what a virus looks like. And the first change to this textbook image is that no virus is ever really alone. Because ...