How to Use virology in a Sentence

virology

noun
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  • At the time, the study of virology was in its infancy, and researchers didn't yet have the tools to see viruses.
    — USA Today, 21 Nov. 2020
  • For a virology class this fall, Caruso asked students to mail him some soil samples to be used in a remote lab.
    — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The viral sequences, most researchers say, also knock down the idea the pathogen came from a virology institute in Wuhan.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Rubio and others say the virus may have leaked from a virology lab in Wuhan, China, and that theory needs to be fully probed.
    — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 29 July 2021
  • In terms of virology, the potential for the novel coronavirus to lead to human death much faster than HIV is to be expected.
    — Steven W. Thrasher, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The science of what can be done in virology, with modern techniques, is quite impressive.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • Beck is not a medical doctor and has no background in virology.
    — Time, 14 May 2020
  • The reputation of the world’s virology community has taken a major hit in the past year.
    — John P. Moore, STAT, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Earlier this month, researchers from the virology institute in Wuhan filed an application to patent the drug’s use for treating the virus.
    — Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
  • The samples are kept in a refrigerator until a courier comes to deliver them to the UW virology lab.
    — Wudan Yan, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Scientists have traced the first cases of Covid-19 to Wuhan, China, the home of both a renowned virology laboratory and wet markets that many experts agree was the original source of the virus.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Because the virus has been a research subject for so long, it was used to develop fundamental ideas in virology.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Ho Mei-shang is an expert in virology and adjunct research fellow at Academia Sinica.
    — Joyu Wang, WSJ, 4 May 2022
  • Miyashiro was now living in student housing in the Bronx with his wife, a graduate student in virology at Einstein College.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Fredrik Elgh, a professor of virology at Umea University, points to the high death toll as evidence the light-touch approach has failed.
    — Niclas Rolander, Bloomberg.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • This is a question that lots of people have been asking, and while a number of strong assertions have been made, a lot of them completely ignore the science of modern virology.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • Together, the team picks apart the latest news in virology and discusses big-name viruses, such as Zika, HIV and influenza.
    — Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
  • This course will focus less on the hard science of virology and immunology, but more on social science aspects of pandemics.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The federal agencies issued the guidelines after consulting with wildlife health and virology experts over the past year.
    — Eric Niiler, Wired, 1 July 2021
  • The letter and most of the other complaints have stopped short of blaming China for the lack of information, although the country has withheld information and ran high-tech virology labs in the same city where the virus first emerged.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 14 May 2021
  • Their research into the Epstein-Barr virus, and its potential raise cancer risks, introduced Dr. zur Hausen into the nascent field of tumor virology.
    — Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
  • This pathology of political pressure rushing research in pursuit of speed is sadly not new—even in the world of virology and pandemics.
    — Albert Ko, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The patent application was made on Jan. 21, according to a statement posted on the website of the virology institute in Wuhan, the central Chinese city at the epicenter of the epidemic.
    — Fortune, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The question now, though, is whether Gilead can still be considered a turnaround story that can diversify beyond its core virology business and return to growth levels seen in the past.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Given that the epicenter of the outbreak, Wuhan, had its own virology institute, that raised the possibility that the coronavirus had been engineered in the lab.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The report, published Thursday in the prestigious journal Science, will revive the debate over whether the pandemic started with a spillover from wildlife sold at the market, a leak from a Wuhan virology lab or some other way.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Experts have widely speculated that the pandemic started in Wuhan, China, either from the wildlife wet markets or from a virology lab near Wuhan.
    — Fox News, 9 May 2020
  • Merkel has relied heavily, and very publicly, on the expertise of a handful of experts, including the now famous Christian Drosten, the head of virology at the Charité hospital in Berlin.
    — Saskia Miller, The Atlantic, 20 Apr. 2020
  • But Covaxin, which has roots in a lab at India’s top virology institute, was always seen more as a symbol of national pride.
    — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
  • There is some new optimism because the effort to resume normal operations is taking place against some of the best virology data of the pandemic.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 4 May 2021

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