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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Both Republicans and Democrats on the panel took EcoHealth to task for everything from the late filing of a progress report for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to the safety conditions of its collaborators’ virology work in China.
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Byjocelyn Kaiser, science.org, 2 May 2024
The virus then likely spread among cows who were near each other or the birds, however, there isn't yet definitive proof of this, said Diel, who is an associate professor of virology.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
The sisters didn’t want to leave out their mom, Natalie Coleman-Fuller, a molecular biologist who works in virology for a pharmaceutical company.
—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
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Byjocelyn Kaiser, science.org, 2 May 2024
The virus then likely spread among cows who were near each other or the birds, however, there isn't yet definitive proof of this, said Diel, who is an associate professor of virology.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
The sisters didn’t want to leave out their mom, Natalie Coleman-Fuller, a molecular biologist who works in virology for a pharmaceutical company.
—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
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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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