Author: DiMaio, Daniel
Title: Is Virology Dead? Document date: 2014_3_25
ID: ykb2s5ja_12
Snippet: Is virology dead? Hardly. Scientific fields that do not adapt become moribund and eventually die, but virology is remarkably adaptable. When viruses were first discovered, they attracted attention because of the diseases that they cause. Indeed, the presence of disease is usually the first clue that a virus exists. Since then, virology has been at the forefront of successive waves of biological inquiry: the appreciation that chemistry can be appl.....
Document: Is virology dead? Hardly. Scientific fields that do not adapt become moribund and eventually die, but virology is remarkably adaptable. When viruses were first discovered, they attracted attention because of the diseases that they cause. Indeed, the presence of disease is usually the first clue that a virus exists. Since then, virology has been at the forefront of successive waves of biological inquiry: the appreciation that chemistry can be applied to the study of life, the birth of molecular biology, the development of gene manipulation and transfer technology, the application of whole-genome sequencing, the growth of immunology, and the acquisition of numerous new insights in cell biology and biochemistry. Today, the threat of emerging virus diseases looms large and suggests that the attention of many virologists may shift from the use of viruses as tools for studying cells back to the study of these novel agents themselves. If history is any guide, as we discover the mechanisms of replication and pathogenesis of these new viruses, new and interesting aspects of the biology of cells will emerge.
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