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Viruses like these H1N1 influenza particles rely on host cells to reproduce, but they can still show social behavior, interacting with other viruses by competing, cooperating and sometimes cheating to succeed. This new behavioral approach to viruses could lead to new insights into how to control infectious diseases. Photo credit: NIH/NIAID

Shining a Light on the Social Lives of Viruses with Samuel Díaz-Muñoz

Posted by Greg Watry on October 18, 2017
To gain an understanding into how viruses spread, and ultimately evolve, Samuel Díaz-Muñoz, assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics in the College of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Davis, explores the hustle and bustle of viruses’ social lives in a new paper published in Cell Host & Microbe.
Research & Discovery
Researchers have been super-gluing little barcodes to bumblebees in order to track their movements. James Crall/Harvard University

Stacey Combes and "Why These Bumblebees Are Wearing Itty-Bitty QR Codes" in Wired

April 06, 2018
Assistant Professor Stacey Combes and colleagues put tiny QR codes on the backs of bumblebees to reveal their social lives. Combes' research with former Harvard graduate student James Crall, published in Nature Communications, is the subject of a new Wired article, "Why These Bumblebees Are Wearing Itty-Bitty QR Codes."
Ecology & Environment
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