Viruses are microscopic parasites made only of their genetic material in a protein envelope. Viruses are not living beings since they are not able to replicate on their own: to do so they need to invade a cell and hijack its functions.
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Let me introduce myself
Hello everyone! My name is Carla and I am a biotechnologist: I have always been attracted by the infinitely small and by the microscopic world. I am a researcher at the Blizard Institute, a research centre of the Queen Mary University of London, where I work on the smallest virus that can infect humans: theContinue reading “Let me introduce myself”
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