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  1. Viruses: Impact on Science and Society

    Abstract. We examine the inter-relationships between viruses and human society. Following a short discussion of the etymology of the word "virus", we consider the mutual impact of viruses and science, including the relationship between technological developments and virus discovery, advances in other biomedical sciences gained through ...

  2. Investigating the Concept and Origin of Viruses

    Viruses replicate using the macromolecular machinery of other biological entities. This prong establishes absolute parasitism, which is a hallmark of viruses and virus-like genetic elements. Another feature of viruses is the ability to encapsulate and disseminate genomes in metabolically inert structures.

  3. Dengue virus: A global human threat: Review of literature

    INTRODUCTION. The dengue virus, a member of the genus Flavivirus of the family Flaviviridae, is an arthropode-borne virus that includes four different serotypes (DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, and DEN-4).[1,2] The World Health Organization (WHO) consider dengue as a major global public health challenge in the tropic and subtropic nations.Dengue has seen a 30-fold upsurge worldwide between 1960 and 2010 ...

  4. Investigating the Concept and Origin of Viruses

    The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has piqued public interest in the properties, evolution, and emergence of viruses. Here, we discuss how these basic questions have surprisingly remained disputed despite being increasingly within the reach of scientific analysis. We review recent data-driven efforts that shed light into the origin and evolution of viruses and explain factors that resist the ...

  5. Viruses and disease: emerging concepts for prevention ...

    Viruses / pathogenicity*. Viruses cause a wide range of human diseases, ranging from acute self-resolving conditions to acute fatal diseases. Effects that arise long after the primary infection can also increase the propensity for chronic conditions or lead to the development of cancer. Recent advances in the fields of virol ….

  6. Virology

    Virology articles from across Nature Portfolio. Atom; RSS Feed; Definition. Virology is the scientific discipline concerned with the study of the biology of viruses and viral diseases, including ...

  7. Virus Research

    Virus Research is a broad-scope and inclusive journal which provides a means for fast publication of original research papers in the field of virology. We deal with viroids and all kinds of viruses, whether they infect bacteria, fungi, plants, animals or humans, and all aspects of virology, from mo…. From January 1, 2023, Virus Research will ...

  8. Human Virology and Viral Diseases

    Feature papers represent the most advanced research with significant potential for high impact in the field. A Feature Paper should be a substantial original Article that involves several techniques or approaches, provides an outlook for future research directions and describes possible research applications. ... Viruses have caused some of the ...

  9. COVID research: a year of scientific milestones

    The team looked at how long the virus persisted, and the amount of virus present at each time point. In people infected with B.1.1.7, infections lasted an average of 13.3 days, compared with 8.2 ...

  10. Viruses

    Feature papers represent the most advanced research with significant potential for high impact in the field. A Feature Paper should be a substantial original Article that involves several techniques or approaches, provides an outlook for future research directions and describes possible research applications. ... Viruses is a peer-reviewed ...

  11. Viral infection

    Breaking through the concept barrier to develop broad-spectrum antiviral counter-measures. In this Journal Club, Yi Shi discusses a paper reporting that influenza virus infection in humans induces ...

  12. Virals: an Essay on VIRUSES: The History and Threats of Viruses in

    This essay is designed to investigate the mystery of the virus: the smallest form of organic material that is able to replicate itself by following a parasitic approach that needs an external ...

  13. Biology of Viruses and Viral Diseases

    These observations were quickly followed by the discovery of yellow fever virus and the seminal research on the pathogenesis of yellow fever by Walter Reed and the U. S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. 1 By the end of the 1930s, tumor viruses, ... Bacteriophage: an essay on virus reproduction. Science. 1950; 111:507-511. [Google Scholar]

  14. Paper Topics for Microbiology: Bacteria and Viruses

    Paper Topics for Microbiology: Bacteria and Viruses. You may want to start your paper by choosing a specific bacterium, Archean, or virus and subsequently focus to something you find particularly interesting about that organism. Alternatively, you may want to choose a current issue or problem in microbiology and focus on the problem, covering ...

  15. computer viruses Latest Research Papers

    This paper seeks to define a virus and explain its related terms such as malicious software, worms, and Trojan horses. ... This study aims to model the pattern of the spread of computer viruses. The method used in this research is the analytical method with the probability of mathematical immunity. Based on the analysis of the model, two ...

  16. PDF White Paper: Addressing Challenges Across The Virus Like Particle

    Virus like particles are an increasingly popular platform for vaccine manufacturing because of their rapid production and the strength of the resulting immune response. Vaccines based on virus like particles for hepatitis B and human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer, are available commercially.

  17. Eroding norms over release of self-spreading viruses

    In their recent paper (1), Lentzos et al. (2022) have presented self-spreading viruses and the associated challenges for their governance at the global scale. Regarding their biological properties, it is difficult not to establish a parallel between the inner nature of lab-made self-spreading viruses and invasive species.

  18. A new way to see viruses in action

    The clusters help show how the virus evades the cell's defenses, said W. E. Moerner, the paper's co-senior author and Harry S. Mosher Professor of Chemistry in the School of Humanities and ...

  19. 55 Viruses Topic Ideas to Write about & Essay Samples

    Computer Viruses, Their Types and Prevention. A memory-resident virus is one of the most resilient types of viruses out there since it resides in the RAM of the computer and comes out of stasis every time the computer's OS is activated. We will write. a custom essay specifically for you by our professional experts.

  20. COVID-19 impact on research, lessons learned from COVID-19 research

    The impact on research in progress prior to COVID-19 was rapid, dramatic, and no doubt will be long term. The pandemic curtailed most academic, industry, and government basic science and clinical ...

  21. (PDF) The Impact of Computer Virus

    This paper provides interesting insights for anti-virus research, as it reflects a period of rapid uptake in the application of the Internet and the use of e-mail for business purposes.

  22. Introduction: The Structural Basis of Virus Function

    This chapter provides an introduction to structural and physical virology and is intended mainly for M.Sc. students, Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers in physics, chemistry, biology or related areas who are interested in viruses, but who may be relatively unfamiliar with the subject.

  23. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Clade 2.3.4.4b Virus

    Research Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Clade 2.3.4.4b Virus Infection in Domestic Dairy Cattle and Cats, United States, 2024 ... HPAI virus infection should be considered in dairy cattle when an unexpected and unexplained abrupt drop in feed intake and milk production occurs and for cats when rapid onset of neurologic signs and ...

  24. Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Points

    Dr. Chan is a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, and a co-author of "Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19." This article has been updated to reflect news ...

  25. Overview of Viruses and Virus Infection

    In such viruses, glycoproteins encoded by the virus are embedded in the lipid envelope. The function of the capsid or envelope is to protect the viral genome while it is extracellular and to promote the entry of the genome into a new, susceptible cell. The structure of viruses is covered in detail in Chapter 2.

  26. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A literature review

    Continued research into the virus is critical to trace the source of the outbreak and provide evidence for future outbreak . Conclusions. The current COVID-19 pandemic is clearly an international public health problem. There have been rapid advances in what we know about the pathogen, how it infects cells and causes disease, and clinical ...

  27. Introducing Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models

    Figure 1: Modeling overview for the Apple foundation models. Pre-Training. Our foundation models are trained on Apple's AXLearn framework, an open-source project we released in 2023.It builds on top of JAX and XLA, and allows us to train the models with high efficiency and scalability on various training hardware and cloud platforms, including TPUs and both cloud and on-premise GPUs.