Explains what viruses are, how they latch onto host cells, why viral infections can be prevented with vaccines, and how the viruses known as bacteriophages could play a large role in the battle against bacteria; and includes a hands-on demonstration of how viruses are spread through casual contact.
Frontline chronicles the AIDS pandemic, featuring interviews with researchers, activists, and patients, that discuss the disease's spread, treatment, prevention, and impact.
Presents an examination of the characteristics of simple organisms called viruses, explaining how they lay dormant until they latch on to a host cell and how they spread.
In a post-apocalyptic world where everyone dies at age nineteen and rainwater contains a killer virus, Esther and Eli band together with a group of mutant, hermaphroditic outsiders to fight a corrupt ruler and save the town of Prin.
Discusses the three types of viruses, including their chemical composition and links with virulent disease such as cancer, and summarizes the latest research developments.
After an undersea lab conducting research on a rare jellyfish known as the blue medusa mysteriously disappears and a bathysphere harboring Joe Zavala is attacked by an underwater vehicle, Kurt austin puts the NUMA team on the case.
A strain of the deadly Marburg virus has come up for sale on the black market. APO has one potential lead: a researcher named Magrite whose success in treating Marburg victims may be the reason for his sudden disappearance. Agent Sydney Bristow and her father, Jack, close in on the kidnapper, but determining Magrite's location is only the first challenge in a chain of obstacles.
