Download or read book Viruses Intimate Invaders written by Van G. Wilson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book guides through the fascinating world of viruses and makes readers enjoy science in an accessible way. Virologist and author Professor Van Wilson imparts knowledge about what viruses are, how they work, and how much they impact life on Earth. The book equips the reader with the scientific basics behind virus function and presents the historic milestones of virus research and discovery. Well-known viruses such as HIV or Influenza are tackled alongside novel pathogens like coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Professor Wilson explores where they come from and how they impact our society. Last but not least the book provides exciting insights into how our immune system reacts to different viruses and how vaccines contribute to conquer pandemics. While scientifically informative, this book makes the field of virology understandable to a lay audience and encourages readers to further thinking. And more importantly, it conveys the wonder, beauty, and mystery of these ubiquitous, microscopic marvels. This book addresses anyone interested in understanding the principles of virology, viral diseases, or the impact of viruses on human societies.

Download or read book The Virus Invaders written by Alan Edward Nourse and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1992 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores different viruses and our body's defenses against them.

Download or read book New York Times Deadly Invaders written by Denise Grady and published by . This book was released on 2006-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how the different kinds of viruses affect the human body and how the body fights them.

Download or read book The Invisible Invaders written by Peter Radetsky and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCIENCE/MATHEMATICS

Download or read book Viruses Plagues and History written by Michael B. A. Oldstone and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here, my previous edition of Viruses, Plagues, & History is updated to reflect both progress and disappointment since that publication. This edition describes newcomers to the range of human infections, specifically, plagues that play important roles in this 21st century. The first is Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), an infection related to Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). SARS was the first new-found plague of this century. Zika virus, which is similar to yellow fever virus in being transmitted by mosquitos, is another of the recent scourges. Zika appearing for the first time in the Americas is associated with birth defects and a paralytic condition in adults. Lastly, illness due to hepatitis viruses were observed prominently during the second World War initially associated with blood transfusions and vaccine inoculations. Since then, hepatitis virus infections have afflicted millions of individuals, in some leading to an acute fulminating liver disease or more often to a life-long persistent infection. A subset of those infected has developed liver cancer. However, in a triumph of medical treatments for infectious diseases, pharmaceuticals have been developed whose use virtually eliminates such maladies. For example, Hepatitis C virus infection has been eliminated from almost all (>97%) of its victims. This incredible result was the by-product of basic research in virology as well as cell and molecular biology during which intelligent drugs were designed to block events in the hepatitis virus life-cycle"--

Download or read book Cell Wars II written by A. Miles and published by A. MILES. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** SILVER MEDAL winner of The Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards 2014 ** Bands, a white blood cell, is on a dangerous mission to find and destroy all the deadly flu viruses rapidly spreading through the body. His teacher Master Baso and Captain Neutro have taught him so much, but will it be enough?Follow the award winning adventures of Bands, in the second book of the 'Cell Wars' series and find out if it is the flu virus or Bands who is exterminated!Cell Wars is a series of fictional illustrated books that teaches children what happens in the body: diseases, bacteria and viruses, blood vessels, the heart and the transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide. An educational fictional book for students studying for KS 3 biology, GCSE and A level Biology and younger readers wanting to know more about Biology and how the body works. Parents - This book helps to explain how the flu virus works and how to keep healthy but in an entertaining fictional story, full of real life characters and facts. Cell Wars was awarded the silver medal in The Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards. "A fantastic book for kids. The author cleverly balances adventure and biology." It was also a finalist in The Rubery Book Award 2014. "An ingenious idea..beautifully illustrated."

Download or read book The Invisible Invaders written by Peter Radetsky and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the world of viral research, the author discusses the scientist's competition to gain recognition for discoveries and introduces readers to leaders in the state of the art of viral research

Download or read book A Planet of Viruses written by Carl Zimmer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We are most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long, in fact, that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes. Meanwhile, scientists are discovering viruses everywhere they look: in the soil, in the ocean, even in caves miles underground. This fascinating book explores the hidden world of viruses—a world that we all inhabit. Here Carl Zimmer, popular science writer and author of Discover magazine’s award-winning blog The Loom, presents the latest research on how viruses hold sway over our lives and our biosphere, how viruses helped give rise to the first life-forms, how viruses are producing new diseases, how we can harness viruses for our own ends, and how viruses will continue to control our fate for years to come. In this eye-opening tour of the frontiers of biology, where scientists are expanding our understanding of life as we know it, we learn that some treatments for the common cold do more harm than good; that the world’s oceans are home to an astonishing number of viruses; and that the evolution of HIV is now in overdrive, spawning more mutated strains than we care to imagine. The New York Times Book Review calls Carl Zimmer “as fine a science essayist as we have.” A Planet of Viruses is sure to please his many fans and further enhance his reputation as one of America’s most respected and admired science journalists.

Download or read book Virus Hunter written by C.J. Peters and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1998-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book The man who led the battle against Ebola in The Hot Zone teams up with the bestselling co-author of Mind Hunter to chronicle his extraordinary thirty-year career fighting deadly viruses. For three decades, Dr. C. J. Peters was on the front lines of our biological battle against “hot” viruses around the world. In the course of that career, he learned countless lessons about our interspecies turf wars with infectious agents. Called in to contain an outbreak of deadly hemorrhagic fever in Bolivia, he confronted the despair of trying to save a colleague who accidentally infected himself with an errant scalpel. Working in Level 4 labs on the Machupo and Ebola viruses, he saw time and again why expensive high-tech biohazard containment equipment is only as safe as the people who use it. Because of new, emerging viruses, and the return of old, “vanquished” ones for which vaccines do not exist, there remains a very real danger of a new epidemic that could, without proper surveillance and early intervention, spread worldwide virtually overnight. And the possibility of foreign countries or terrorist groups using deadly airborne viruses—the poor man’s nuclear arsenal—looms larger than ever. High-octane science writing at its best and most revealing, Virus Hunter is a thrilling first-person account of what it is like to be a warrior in the Hot Zone.

Download or read book Virus X written by Frank Ryan and published by FPR-Books Ltd. This book was released on 1998 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ryan has asked experts from around the world to explain where emerging viruses come from and how they have become so strong, and puts forward a new biological theory for the origins and successes of plague viruses. Originally published in 1996.

Download or read book The War Within Us written by Cedric A. Mims and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2000-06-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. In The War Within Us, well-known author and infectious disease specialist Cedric Mims makes the intricacies of the immune system and infectious diseases less baffling for the general reader and answers the questions of how things work and why. The story is told in terms of the ancient conflict between the invader (the infectious disease) and the defender (the body's immune system) and the strategies and counter-strategies used by both sides, making it a book that is both informative and interesting to read. The War Within Us is an ideal introduction to the basics of immunity and infection for general readers and students. It also serves as a quick reference book for physicians, researchers, and other health workers. Parasite versus host The conflict: how we defend ourselves The microbe's response to our defence How microbes cause diseas Thumbnail sketches of seven selected diseases: The threat of new diseases

Download or read book Molecular Biology of The Cell written by Bruce Alberts and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Biological Role of a Virus written by Christon J. Hurst and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book answers the question “What is it that viruses do?” by presenting three aspects of viral ecology. The first aspect explains how viruses affect the population diversity and energetics of their host communities. Perhaps the most notable example of this concept is our understanding that primary production within ecosystems often depends upon those viruses which serve as controllers of nutrient recycling, connecting the aquatic and terrestrial realms in ways that can be assessed locally and globally. The second aspect describes genetic partnerships which exist between hosts and their viruses. These include processes termed endogeny and lysogeny by which the host carries at least a partial genomic copy of the virus. Fluidity of these collective genomes is expressed on an evolutionary time scale and the mutual life cycles which they produce represent a forging of shared genomic fate that obligates partnership of the virus and its host. The viral sequences represent a source of potential benefit as well as potential peril for the host and can implement phenotypic changes in the host. Hosts often use those changes as tools. As humans, the most notable example would be that mammals rely upon temporary activation of their endogenous viral genes in order to successfully develop a placenta. The third aspect is defending the health of a host, which relies upon activity in two directions. Hosts often use their captured viral genes to identify and subsequently direct battle against invading viruses. This natural concept has been engineered for combating cancer, is useful for suppressing the detrimental consequences of genetic diseases, and has been developed to create targeted antiviral vaccines. But, the defense has to work in two directions and the host can use other symbiotic microorganisms as protection against its viruses. This book will appeal to a wide readership by providing a broad perspective of viral ecology, and all scientists will find it helpful for gaining a view of fields beyond their specialization.

Download or read book Virus Ground Zero written by Edward Regis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed science writer takes readers behind the scenes at the Centers for Disease Control to tell the story of an engrossing odyssey across the viral frontier.

Download or read book Folia Biologica written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Retrovirus Cell Interactions written by Leslie Parent and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retrovirus-Cell Interactions provides an up-to-date review of the interactions between retroviruses and the cells they infect, offering a comprehensive understanding of how retroviruses hijack cellular factors to facilitate virus replication. Drugs targeting viral enzymes have been developed to treat HIV; the next challenge is to inhibit virus-cell interactions as next generation treatment strategies. Organized according to the retrovirus' replication cycle, this book does not focus exclusively on HIV, but rather includes important findings in other retroviral systems, including animal retroviruses, retrotransposons, and endogenous retroelements to allow broad comparisons on important commonalities and differences. Provides a valuable starting point for people who want to develop a detailed understanding of retroviral replication Includes future-thinking strategies, such as next-generation treatment and anti-retroviral therapeutics Features important commonalities and differences among retroviral systems