Illuminating the Micro-World to Understand Viral Infections
On October 27, 2020, virologist and science communicator Efra Rivera-Serrano gave this virtual talk for American Scientist’s lunchtime seminar series. He was introduced by Brian Malow. A video of the full talk is below, followed by a summary of the live tweets that highlighted points of the talk. Fallback image As Rivera-Serrano explains, viruses are ubiquitous in nature and can be found freely disseminated in nearly every ecosystem and in intimate association with the cells they infect. Unable to multiply by division like all units of life do, these subcellular agents rely entirely on ho...