Word: virologist
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...there other viruses as dangerous as HIV-or even more dangerous-lurking on the edge of civilization? That's the question that haunts public-health officials. Dr. Karl Johnson, formerly a virologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wonders: "Suppose we get a virus that is both deadly to man and transmitted in the air?" It needn't even be a new organism, since viruses undergo mutations every so often. Sometimes they change into a more harmless form--but sometimesthey get more virulent. Which means that the next time Ebola virus emerges from the jungle, it might...
Schreiber says Duesberg was a respected virologist prior to this controversy...
Adele Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Bernard N. Fields, a leading virologist who helped direct the nation's AIDS research program, died of pancreatic cancer at his home in West Newton on Tuesday...
...wanted a thriller, a true-life version of Alien, his 1979 sci-fi horror epic, that was strong on hardware and icky special effects, with maybe an ecological message. Redford, who signed on for $8 million and who had script approval, wanted an ecological message movie about a heroic virologist from the Centers for Disease Control -- his role. Foster ($6 million and script approval) wanted an ecological thriller about a heroic Army pathologist -- her role...
...while Muthiah D. Daniel, senior virologist at the New England Regional Primate Research Center and first author of an article which appeared last month in Science describing the study, called the vaccine "a novel technique," he also cautioned that it would be at least four or five years before a similar vaccine could be tested on humans...