Karin Moelling

Viruses: More Friends Than Foes (Revised Edition)


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viruses — the pandoraviruses

       Two Guinness world records: the biggest viruses in the biggest cells

       Can viruses see?

       Archaea like it hot and salty

       8.Viruses as fossils

       Viruses inherited

       Phoenix from the DNA

       How koalas survive deadly viruses

       Paleovirology

       Crippled viruses

       Cancer or geniuses from viruses?

       Who built the DNA — viruses?

       “Mrs. Mendel’s” maize

       Poisonous toys and epigenetics in Agouti mice

       Sleeping beauty, ancient fish, platypus, and kois

       A fence with empty spaces

       ENCODE for understanding “junk-DNA”

       9.Viruses — our oldest ancestors?

       In the beginning was RNA

       First chicken or egg? — Neither nor!

       Viroids — the first viruses?

       Viroids — illiterate all-rounders

       Circles of RNA

       Ribosomes are ribozymes — viruses make proteins!

       Clover leaves

       A protein as chaperone

       From potato to the liver

       Tobacco mosaic viruses

       Viruses in “chili sauce” and my apple tree

       Tulipomania: the first financial crisis caused by a virus

       The 500 Deutschmark note with MS Merian

       10.Viruses and antiviral defense

       Fast and slow defense

       No color by silent genes

       Inheritable immune system in bacteria — and what about us?

       Therapies imitating antiviral defense — CRISPR/Cas9

       From horseshoe crabs and worms for immunization

       Viruses and psyche

       11.Viruses and phages for survival?

       The forgotten phages

       Bean sprouts poisoned by phages

       Which is dirtier, the refrigerator or the toilet?

       The “Zurich Case” on fecal transfer

       How to fight obesity

       The Dutch Famine study

       Elba worms outsource digestion

       Ecosphere in a glass ball

       12.Viruses for gene therapy

       Viruses against viruses

       A leaky door, Lipizzan horses, sheikhs — and publish or perish

       “Mosquito vaccination” against viruses

       Viruses for therapy of plants

       Can viruses save the chestnut trees and bananas?

       Fungi have sex instead of viruses

       Stem