VIRUS

"hiv, the aids virus (yellow), infecting a human cell", by Seth Pincus, Elizabeth Fischer, and Austin Athman. This human T cell (blue) is under attack by HIV (yellow), the virus that causes AIDS. The virus specifically targets T cells, which play a critical role in the body's immune response against invaders like...

A virus is a transmittable microorganism including a segment of nucleic acid bordered by a protein layer. A virus can not reproduce alone; rather, it has to infect cells and use components of the host cell to make duplicates of itself. Often, a virus ends up eliminating the host cell at the same time, causing damage to the host microorganism. In truth, infections infect many organisms, so you'll have viruses that infect fungi, infections that infect germs, and we can learn a lot about how viruses preserve themselves by examining infections that contaminate an entire host of types. The infections that contaminate human beings are only a small fraction of the viruses that you locate in the world. The best abundance of infections would be those that contaminate microorganisms that are often called phage. A great deal of future research will decipher the methods which viruses infect people and what we might locate as prospective ways of stopping viral duplication within human cells.

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