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Virology is the scientific study of biological viruses. It is a subfield of microbiology that focuses on their detection, structure, classification and evolution, their methods of infection and exploitation of host cells for reproduction, their interaction with host organism physiology and immunity, the diseases they cause, the techniques to ...
Daniel O’Connell Griffin (born 15 July 1967) is an American infectious disease specialist. He is president of the nonprofit organization Parasites Without Borders. [1]Co-director of Life Science podcast network Microbe.TV, [2] Griffin broadcasts a weekly COVID Clinical Update [3] as part of This Week in Virology (TWiV) podcasts.
This Week in Virology grew its audience significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and although its title remained the same, in early 2020, the frequency of podcasts increased to two or three per week in order to cover breaking news about the dynamic state of research and treatment of the disease. [citation needed]
Virology is the study of viruses and their properties. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent ...
In 2015, with Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, he published an article titled "A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence," which describes their work in generating and characterizing a chimeric virus which added the spike of a bat coronavirus (SHC014) onto the backbone of a mouse ...
Adapted from Ashour et al. (2020) [61]) Although viral pandemics are rare events, HIV—which evolved from viruses found in monkeys and chimpanzees—has been pandemic since at least the 1980s. [62] During the 20th century there were four pandemics caused by influenza virus and those that occurred in 1918, 1957 and 1968 were severe. [63]
[8] [9] The name was coined by June Almeida and David Tyrrell who first observed and studied human coronaviruses. [10] The word was first used in print in 1968 by an informal group of virologists in the journal Nature to designate the new family of viruses. [ 7 ]
Weiss' work and expertise has been featured in the science podcast This Week in Virology in both 2020 [22] and 2021. [23] As of 2024, she is a fellow and a current governor of the American Academy of Microbiology, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2023 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. [24]