Word: rhinovirus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Lafayette, Ind., a Purdue University biologist who until recently was building models of viruses by laboriously fastening together hundreds of brass fittings taps away at a computer keyboard. When he is done, he has created on the screen an image of rhinovirus 14 (one of some 113 varieties responsible for the common cold) that can be turned and viewed in three dimensions. Rhinovirus 14 thus becomes the first animal virus of any kind to have its full portrait drawn...
Want to see a black hole or a rhinovirus? Computer images are providing scientists with a better understanding of nature...
...that virus often lasts for decades, or even a lifetime. Then why does the common cold return again and again? One reason, scientists explain, is that colds can be caused by any one of hundreds of strains of bugs, most of them belonging to a group called the rhinovirus. A new cold can be brought on by a strain the immune system has not previously encountered...