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    Centenary Institute > News > New insight into the never-ending arms-race between viruses and their hosts

New insight into the never-ending arms-race between viruses and their hosts

Date time 18 April, 2018
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Viruses have been infecting all forms of life – from single-celled bacteria to humans – for as long as there has been life on Earth. Because of this, ancient mechanisms of virus resistance co-exist in our bodies alongside our more-recently evolved and highly sophisticated adaptive immune system.

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