Do We Pursue A Universal Balance Of Our Planet?

The article first addresses the issue of whether or not to consider viruses as living. Although viruses used to be thought of as being biological chemicals due to the fact that they consist of nucleic acids

Viruses have always made themselves a part of history. Yellow fever, smallpox, and Ebola are only a few that were once dangerous outbreaks. Throughout history viruses have primarily emerged from developing countries and since, affected its population. Action is taken

“This viral vector engineered by my former supervisor, Dr. Rod Stinguard, will indeed seal his personal legacy,” Surina continued. “Overnight, he has propelled his name to the top of the list of contenders for the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Using his formidable connections with the World Governing Body, Stinguard readily gained their approval to distribute the viral vector globally. However, since they only tested twenty healthy subjects with a short follow-up, they could have missed the possibility of mutations on a statistical basis. For this reason, they are phasing in the launch starting in Africa and later in other countries. Stinguard rushed this viral vector’s development, and it is far from being ready for distribution. I always

Current trends in technology help to produce a variety of jobs in the healthcare field. In Contagion, scientists used expensive machinery to discover what the virus was composed of and what the sample determined. Computers helped to look in depth and detail at the the virus’ structure and composition. This helped the scientists determine a number of things such as where it could have originated and how fast it could spread through person-to-person

Climate change, specifically in reference to C02 Emissions released by human use of fossil fuels and their consequential effects on the environment, is perhaps one of the most pressing issues we, not just as Americans, but as human beings face in our lifetimes. Though it may sound like a sensationalist statement the facts are hard to deny. In May of 2013, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The idea of a superbug sweeping the world has long fired up people’s imaginations, the 2011 movie Contagion is one manifestation of such fears, albeit a pretty scientifically-accurate manifestation. While the film certainly depicts a “worst-case scenario,” where an unknown and highly-contagious virus that is difficult to grow in a lab infects millions of people around the globe, it carefully works with the technical details, providing a plausible situation.

Doctors see the importance of vaccines on a local scale, as they protect children and communities, but researchers and scientists see the importance of vaccines on a global scale. Over the years, the world has seen many close calls with viruses such as Ebola, Swine Flu, and Zika, each proving to be slightly more difficult to address yet preparation has not changed to accommodate for the adapting viruses. Researchers and scientists are educated to be a step ahead of viruses that threaten society and the implementation of the CEPI would allow science the means to commence the process of eradicating viruses. Already the CEPI has funding to research three high profile viruses however the more money the CEPI can allocate, the bigger its targets can become. Researchers hope to eventually take on viruses such as HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, three of the most widespread and adaptive viruses in the world today. With most viruses much easier to address when compared to the abilities of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, researchers hope funding comes quickly. Sciences ability to protect the world from pandemics depends wholly on the success of the CEPI, nowhere else is there funding dedicated solely to the research of viruses and their possible vaccinations. For researchers and scientists, the success of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparation Innovations is crucial for the future of a world threatened by adaptive viruses that currently have no

Viruses directly trade genetic information with living organisms which, “is within the web of life itself.” (Villarreal, 2004) Viruses have formed many ways to avoid being detected by its host immune system. Steps in the immune process can be altered and even controlled by the virus genes found in the virus. If viruses couldn’t adapt to what they are affecting, then how getting one single virus could, multiply up to 100 trillion times in just a few

Hello class. In today’s compare and contrast we will be question bacteria and viruses to see some of their similarities.

It is more difficult to develop drugs against viruses then bacteria because viruses are always changing and producing new strains, enabling scientists to make a drug quick enough to target it. There is also a problem with vaccinations as viruses might work one year and the next year they could be less effective or not work at all.

For as long as we can remember, we have been fighting off viruses as they try to hijack our bodies for their own gain. They attack our cells and force them to create more new viruses, bringing discomfort, illness, and sometimes death to those afflicted with them. Viruses, however, are proving to be more necessary than we initially thought. Scientists have found that some DNA from viruses are vital for our survival as our bodies have learned to harness their abilities.

The virus that I had for this project was the virus Polio. The scientific name for this virus is poliomyelitis. poliomyelitis was discovered in 1908 by Karl Landsteiner and Erwin Popper. They discovered the infectious disease was infact polio. They even went as far as taking the spinal cord fluid from a person, who in fact had the disease, and they injected it into a monkey and that monkey was infected with the Polio Virus. They were further able to find that the muscle paralysis was linked to the polio virus. Even though they knew the virus was polio, they could not physically see the disease until the 1950’s due to the invention of the electron microscope. Polio is a Rna based Virus that infects the muscle system on your body that can have

Viruses can be found in every corner of the world. Every living organism found on earth has a virus that infects it. There are ten times more viruses than bacteria, making them the most abundant biomass in the world. They are known for causing infectious diseases, however, some viruses have been shown the have beneficial attributes. Bacteriophages are viruses that specifically infect bacteria in order to replicate. In 1917, scientists would use bacteriophages to treat dysentery which was the first reported case of bacteriophages be used as a form of therapy [1].

Though viruses may seem as though it only has the potential to cause harm, recent studies have surfaced to change its bad reputation. Common known viruses such as Ebola, rabies, influenza, HIV and more are known to show harmful reactions to humans, sometimes even possible to cause death. Because of the way they work, viruses such as the human immunodeficiency virus has been looked into in terms of reprogramming, ending in a result that could possibly be an option to treat another catastrophic epidemic of humans, cancer.

There is a lot of new research on viruses. Viruses are used as a new way to battle against cancer. These viruses are used to find cells that have cancer like properties. These viruses would invade all cells, but they would only have an effect on cancer cells. When these viruses find cancer cells, they would be able to make many more copies of the viruses. These viruses would then leave the cell and would kill that cell. These viruses would be definitely effective cures to cancer when fully developed, as they would be very good at eradicating cells infected by