Aa Aa Aa The evolutionary history of viruses represents a fascinating ... These mobile genetic elements make up an astonishing 42% of the human genome (Lander et al. 2001) and can move within ...

The book brings together not just a description of these diseases and how they have affected our history and behavior, but also narrates the search for the causative agents, explaining how they ...

The viruses are bacteria-eaters that take on the human body’s enemies ... who was born in the former Soviet Union, traces the history of phages from the early 20th-century recognition of ...

The history of influenza vaccine and the associated technology shows how the vaccine has evolved to match the evolution of influenza viruses. Box 1. Current nomenclature for influenza viruses (WHO ...

Box 1. Current nomenclature for influenza viruses (WHO 1980). The formal nomenclature for the designation of influenza viruses was revised and published by the WHO [43]. The year of isolation ...

The findings have not yet been peer reviewed. If confirmed, the new findings would be the oldest human viruses ever recovered, setting a record previously held by a 31,000-year-old adenovirus ...

Ancient viruses embedded in human DNA millions of years ago may play a role in raising people’s risks of depression, ...

Chapters 7 and 8 follow the movement of infectious diseases from the Old World across ... as slaves in the biggest forced migration in human history; and Europeans started a process of ...