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ОглавлениеMany coronaviruses except for CoV-2
Viruses — more friends than foes?
2.Viruses — not as you pictured them
3.Viruses — how they make us ill
The Berlin patient and the Mississippi baby — cure HIV?
Microbicides as “condoms” for women
4.Retroviruses and immortality
Reverse transcriptase — a personal retrospective
The RNase H — molecular scissors
Viruses for detecting viruses — the PCR
Viral oncogenes without viruses — a paradox?
Retroviruses as teachers of cancer research
The Myc protein and reactor accidents
Tumor suppressors and car crashes
Metastases — and how cells learn to run
Cancer — completely different?
23andMe — will I get breast cancer?
6.Viruses that do not make us ill
Phages — the viruses of bacteria
A coat for the painter and a journal for the scientist
We are not alone — we are a superorganism
Cesarean section, milk and a “sushi” gene
Viruses against global warming and laying eggs
A virus full of wasp genes — is that a virus?
Giant viruses of algae and a swimming ban in the Baltic
XXL-sized viruses — the pandoraviruses
Two Guinness world records: the biggest viruses in the biggest cells
How koalas survive deadly viruses
Cancer or geniuses from viruses?
Poisonous toys and epigenetics in Agouti mice
Sleeping beauty, ancient fish, platypus, and kois
ENCODE for understanding “junk-DNA”
9.Viruses — our oldest ancestors?
First chicken or egg? — Neither nor!
Viroids — illiterate all-rounders
Ribosomes are ribozymes — viruses make proteins!
Viruses in “chili sauce” and my apple tree
Tulipomania: the first financial crisis caused by a virus
The 500 Deutschmark note with MS Merian
10.Viruses and antiviral defense
Inheritable immune system in bacteria — and what about us?
Therapies imitating antiviral defense — CRISPR/Cas9
From horseshoe crabs and worms for immunization
11.Viruses and phages for survival?
Bean sprouts poisoned by phages
Which is dirtier, the refrigerator or the toilet?
The “Zurich Case” on fecal transfer
Elba worms outsource digestion
A leaky door, Lipizzan horses, sheikhs — and publish or perish
“Mosquito vaccination” against viruses
Can viruses save the chestnut trees and bananas?
Fungi have sex instead of viruses
Stem cells — almost tumor cells?
Synthetic biology — dog or cat out of the test-tube?
Which came first — the virus or the cell?
Fast-runners and slow-progressors
Lucky so far — but what about the end of the world?
A fantastic new “genetics” with sex hormones
