A Tale of Two Viruses: Parallels in the Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses (Sankaran Neeraja)(Pevná vazba)

In 1965, French microbiologist Andr Lwoff was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on lysogeny--one of the two types of viral life cycles--which resolved a contentious debate among scientists about the nature of viruses. A Tale of Two Viruses is the first study of medical virology to compare the history of two groups of medically important viruses--bacteriophages, which infect bacteria, and sarcoma agents, which cause cancer--and the importance of Lwoff's discovery to our modern understanding of what a virus is. Although these two groups of viruses may at first glance appear to have little in common, they share uniquely parallel histories. The lysogenic cycle, unlike the lytic, enables viruses to replicate in the host cell without destroying it and to remain dormant in a cell's genetic material indefinitely, or until induced by UV radiation. But
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