Tuesday, 21 May, 2013

The Viral Storm Nathan Wolfe • Times Books, 2012, 305 pp. If you appreciate efficiency, you have to love viruses. A few genes, a few thousand “letters” of DNA or RNA, and they can conquer large, important organism like us. A virus not only can force its host to make more virus particles; it can [...]

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