July 2008

The Biocrowd

The social development of the web 2.0 has largely bypassed science. Hugely popular websites such as facebook, myspace, twitter, digg, delicious and the like have millions of members and generate huge amounts of traffic. But those who use these sites come from all walks of life. None are devoted solely to science. This situation is …

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No more viruses?

In finishing up details on our new version of “Principles of Virology”, I came across this outdated statement in the introduction of volume 19 of “Comprehensive Virology”, written in 1984: “Virology, as a science, having passed only recently through its descriptive phase of naming and numbering, has probably reached that stage at which relatively few …

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