virology
noun
vi·rol·o·gy
vī-ˈrä-lə-jē 
: a branch of science that deals with viruses and viral diseases
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The sisters didn’t want to leave out their mom, Natalie Coleman-Fuller, a molecular biologist who works in virology for a pharmaceutical company.
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Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2024
Less than a decade ago, the international virology community went into an uproar when U.S. scientists contemplated inserting a gene into stockpiled smallpox viruses that would have made solutions containing the virus turn green, for rapid identification purposes.
—Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2013
On Monday, the subcommittee turned its gunsights on Fauci, a revered expert in virology and immunology who was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 38 years and a key figure in the development of therapies to fight HIV infection.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
Peiris, who is chair of virology at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Public Health, wonders whether the risk that H5N1 poses to people has changed in the decades since H5 first started infecting humans.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 5 June 2024
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Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2024
Less than a decade ago, the international virology community went into an uproar when U.S. scientists contemplated inserting a gene into stockpiled smallpox viruses that would have made solutions containing the virus turn green, for rapid identification purposes.
—Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2013
On Monday, the subcommittee turned its gunsights on Fauci, a revered expert in virology and immunology who was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 38 years and a key figure in the development of therapies to fight HIV infection.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
Peiris, who is chair of virology at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Public Health, wonders whether the risk that H5N1 poses to people has changed in the decades since H5 first started infecting humans.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 5 June 2024
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virology
noun
vi·rol·o·gy
vī-ˈräl-ə-jē
: a branch of science concerned with viruses and diseases caused by viruses
Medical Definition
virology
noun
vi·rol·o·gy
vī-ˈräl-ə-jē
plural virologies
: a branch of science that deals with viruses
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