Sociovirology: "Diseases like influenza don’t make sense if we think of viruses in isolation from one another. And if we can decipher the social life of viruses, we might be able to exploit it to fight back against the diseases some of them create."
'Lacking the complexity of cells, they revealed fundamental rules about how genes work. But viral reductionism came at a cost, Vignuzzi said: By assuming viruses are simple, you blind yourself to the possibility that they might be complicated in ways you don’t know about yet' @carlzimmer.bsky.social
New research has uncovered a social world of viruses full of cheating, cooperation and other intrigues, suggesting that viruses make sense only as members of a community.
Hey. Interesting article on the private lives of viruses and their relationships: sociovirology 👀
Awesome Quanta article from @carlzimmer.bsky.social on 'Sociovirology' that quotes and profiles some of my favorite and inspiring colleagues. www.quantamagazine.org/viruses-fina...
New research has uncovered a social world of viruses full of cheating, cooperation and other intrigues, suggesting that viruses make sense only as members of a community.
Awesome Quanta article from @carlzimmer.bsky.socialwww.quantamagazine.org/viruses-fina...
New research has uncovered a social world of viruses full of cheating, cooperation and other intrigues, suggesting that viruses make sense only as members of a community.
Check out this cool article that features my postdoc mentor and other awesome sociovirologists. My time in the Diaz Munoz lab has been pivotal in me developing my own research program and I cannot wait to contribute more to the sociovirology field in the next few years!
Sociovirology is so fascinating (and complex!) - cool story by @carlzimmer.bsky.social@vignuzzilab.bsky.social#VirEvol#ViroSky 🦠
Samuel Alizon writes an authoritative review on how ‘sociovirology’ relates to existing theory, highlighting both useful frameworks and outstanding gaps. I think this paper is required reading for anyone wishing to model viral social evolution. doi.org/10.1111/jeb.... (4/n)