Parasites, bacteria, and viruses have been the scourge of humanity as long as we have been here, but disease has reshaped our…
Viruses
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You are not going to make it through life without getting sick. It happens to the best of us. What kind of…
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Viruses challenge our definition of life. Neither dead nor alive, they are simply functional or not. Viruses do not possess the machinery…
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Virus. The word is usually met with fear and understandably so. These microscopic collections of biological chemicals have been responsible for countless…
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Scientists are at it again. This time, they’re creating new viruses and bacteria in their laboratories. Scientists usually prefer altering already-existing or…
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In a world full of extraordinary things viruses might just be the strangest. They are intimately involved in the lives of all…
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Viruses are a particularly fearsome “germ.” Though viral infections may resemble bacterial infections, antibiotics are useless against viruses. There are very few…