• Question: what new viruses have you discovered

    Asked by anon-350288 on 14 Mar 2023.
    • Photo: Edward Guy

      Edward Guy answered on 14 Mar 2023:

      Not many people discover new viruses, but I did discover that measles virus can cause a form of liver disease after hiding for many years inside liver cells.

    • Photo: Jacob Wildfire

      Jacob Wildfire answered on 14 Mar 2023:

      My lab hasn’t discovered any new viruses, but we do change the viruses we work with to exciting new things. For example, making their proteins glow!

    • Photo: Simone Girdham

      Simone Girdham answered on 14 Mar 2023:

      I haven’t discovered any new viruses, but I have worked with a student who accidentally found a cause for particular cancer.

      Another very famous example was Dr Alexander Fleming who discovered penicillin, which changed the history of medicine.

    • Photo: Laura Lockhart

      Laura Lockhart answered on 14 Mar 2023:

      No totally new viruses but in my job we take new variants of flu to update our vaccine recipe every year to keep it effective at protecting people- that’s as close as I can get!

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