Understanding robustness in organisms - a potential weapon against infectious diseases

Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 09:20 in Biology & Nature

'Robust' is an adjective appreciatively applied to certain vintage wines, but when describing viruses and pathogens, robustness is a property that may be much less desirable. It evokes drug resistant microbes and other superbugs that can wreak havoc as researchers struggle to deal with new pandemics. How can we undercut this robustness?...

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