Viruses: More Friends Than Foes (Revised Edition). Karin Moelling

Viruses: More Friends Than Foes (Revised Edition) - Karin Moelling


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       Therapeutics

       Viruses — more friends than foes?

       2.Viruses — not as you pictured them

       Viruses — a success story

       After the Big Bang

       Instead of Adam and Eve

       In the beginning were viruses

       Looking back

       A sailor and splicing

       Viruses — dead or alive?

       3.Viruses — how they make us ill

       Viruses wrote history

       HIV as an example

       The Berlin patient and the Mississippi baby — cure HIV?

       No vaccine against HIV?

       “Naked DNA”

       Microbicides as “condoms” for women

       Driving HIV into “suicide”

       The origin and future of HIV

       4.Retroviruses and immortality

       Reverse transcriptase — a personal retrospective

       The RNase H — molecular scissors

       RNase H and embryos

       Telomerase and eternal life

       Viruses as cellular nuclei?

       Viruses for detecting viruses — the PCR

       5.Viruses and cancer

       The Tasmanian devil

       Retroviral oncogenes

       The sarcoma saga

       Viral oncogenes without viruses — a paradox?

       Viruses and cancer

       Strange fatalities

       Retroviruses as teachers of cancer research

       The Myc protein and reactor accidents

       Tumor suppressors and car crashes

       Metastases — and how cells learn to run

       -Ome and -Omics

       Cancer — completely different?

       23andMe — will I get breast cancer?

       Viruses and prostate cancer?

       6.Viruses that do not make us ill

       An ocean full of viruses

       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?

       Prions — can do without genes

       7.Viruses — “giant” as cells

       Giant viruses of algae and a swimming ban in the Baltic

       Amoebae viruses can tickle

       Sputnik — viruses of viruses

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