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What is a Virus, Anyway?
Launched in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we hope these resources provide useful information and context on viruses, with a focus on SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID.
What are they? How do they work? What happens to them when they infect us? How do scientists study viruses? And more…
Learn about Viruses
Topic:
Microbiology,
Life Science
How does virology influence our day-to-day life? Join us for a brief introduction into viruses before launching into our collection
Topic:
Microbiology,
Life Science
Content Type:
Article
Viruses are fundamentally a lean genome surrounded by a protective protein coat
Topic:
Microbiology,
Genetics,
Life Science
Content Type:
Article
Exploring the relationship between virus genome size and virus shape
Topic:
Microbiology,
Life Science
Content Type:
Article
Explore the genome organization, size and infection process of Coronaviurs
Experiment with Virus Science
Hunt down SARS-CoV-2 RNA sequences from lung tissue of COVID-19 patients & determine which genes the viral RNA sequences map to.
How will you quantify the relative threat of a virus?
Viruses IRL
Demonstrating Virus Symmetry With Origami
Visualizations are useful in communicating information from complex data sets. Never before has this been more important than the COVID-19 pandemic.
Topic:
Life Science
Content Type:
Article
What are the arguments for and against classifying viruses as living organisms?
Explore NYC open COVID-19 data for visualizing virus spread using the free software package Shiny.
Model an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
Learn about qPCR and try a simulation of the test for COVID-19