SO ENDS this weekend focus on the ancient contest between viruses and their hosts to control the host cellular machinery. For millennia, viruses have devised cunning biochemical and genetic strategies to find weak spots in their host defenses, while the hosts have reacted by trying to modify their molecular machinery to resist the viruses. The cycle of genetic variation, new molecular niche, counter-adaptation continues.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022