Viruses — more friends than foes?
2.Viruses — not as you pictured them
3.Viruses — how they make us ill
The Berlin patient and the Mississippi baby — cure HIV?
Microbicides as “condoms” for women
4.Retroviruses and immortality
Reverse transcriptase — a personal retrospective
The RNase H — molecular scissors
Viruses for detecting viruses — the PCR
Viral oncogenes without viruses — a paradox?
Retroviruses as teachers of cancer research
The Myc protein and reactor accidents
Tumor suppressors and car crashes
Metastases — and how cells learn to run
Cancer — completely different?
23andMe — will I get breast cancer?
6.Viruses that do not make us ill
Phages — the viruses of bacteria
A coat for the painter and a journal for the scientist
We are not alone — we are a superorganism
Cesarean section, milk and a “sushi” gene
Viruses against global warming and laying eggs
A virus full of wasp genes — is that a virus?