• Question: What have you discovered about the viruses that you have researched about so far?

    Asked by rush520noon on 19 Mar 2025. This question was also asked by kune520noon.
    • Photo: Marta Oliveira

      Marta Oliveira answered on 19 Mar 2025:

      I’ve discovered that HIV has evolved many ways to interfere with our cells to do its own bidding. On one hand, it’s scary, but on the other, it’s really cool. Learning about this can one day lead to a better way of fighting this virus since there’s still no cure.

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      Graeme Dykes answered on 20 Mar 2025:

      Sorry, I don’t do research on virus’ themselves

    • Photo: Zoe Vance

      Zoe Vance answered on 21 Mar 2025:

      I more work on software to detect or diagnose viruses so we don’t make a lot of discoveries about viruses themselves – more likely I discover our lab procedures or software has something wrong with it.

      Sometimes you might find out something about the virus that is relevant to detecting it though – like maybe there’s a variant type of the virus that your methods aren’t picking up.

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