The interaction between a virus and its host is often portrayed as an arms race, with each new viral attack parried by the host and each new defense by the host one-upped by the virus.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese military experts have warned of an expanding arms race in outer space as Beijing and other rival powers seek to counter U.S. ambitions to dominate the heavens.
A "new arms race" is taking shape in cyberspace, Canada's security czar said Wednesday, lamenting ever bolder and more sophisticated attacks on government websites by Russia, China and others.
... they absorb carbon dioxide greenhouse gas. But fast-mutating viruses also populate the seas, attacking marine bacteria in an ages-old evolutionary arms race.
... the funky physics to work on disciplined computer networks is a whole new headache. Cryptography is an arms race, but the finish line may be fast approaching. Up to now, each time the codemakers made ...
... t programmed to look. So AV firms and hackers are locked in an arms race, continually trying to outdo each other.
Soon hackers could up the ante even further. Samuel King and colleagues ...
... We also see this story unfold in which the corals are building skeletal defenses, possibly in a long-running arms-race with their predators. Together, it shows us how wrong it is to think of deep-sea ...
A new X-ray tool could help biologists shed light on the body’s innermost workings, providing details that could have enormous value to chemists designing drugs, such as new antibiotics to defeat ...
... classic issue of the tug-of-war in the evolution of the host and the pathogen; it's a never-ending arms race," said Gregory Crimmins, UC Berkeley graduate student in molecular and cell biology who, ...
... event like the 10,000-meter race, marathons or a bicycle time trial. The physiology ... 40 years of sport has been the emergence of the pharmacological arms race, or doping," Dr. Joyner says.
Creating ...
... only have an impact on the diversity of an organism, if the organism is involved in a co-evolutionary arms race with pathogens or competitors, like our E.coli was with its parasite. Our biologist ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's demonstrated anti-satellite capability makes it critical for Washington to work with Beijing to avoid an arms race in space, a leading U.S. think tank said on Thursday.
... introduction of predators."
"Controlling pests is like an arms race between us and the pests – normally we don't expect asexuals to do well in this race, but in this case the asexuals might even win ...
... pathogen will sometimes result in the pathogen winning. This interplay has been described as a chemical 'arms race' between the bacteria and fungus, with one side beating the other as new compounds ...
... from The University of Arizona in Tucson. John W. Pepper proposes a new strategy in the arms race between humans and germs-- targeting the teamwork within gangs of germs.
Most drugs used to fight ...