Virology-The next fifty years.

Virology-The next fifty years.

Publication date: Sep 19, 2024

Virology has made enormous advances in the last 50 years but has never faced such scrutiny as it does today. Herein, we outline some of the major advances made in virology during this period, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, and suggest some areas that may be of research importance in the next 50 years. We focus on several linked themes: cataloging the genomic and phenotypic diversity of the virosphere; understanding disease emergence; future directions in viral disease therapies, vaccines, and interventions; host-virus interactions; the role of viruses in chronic diseases; and viruses as tools for cell biology. We highlight the challenges that virology will face moving forward-not just the scientific and technical but also the social and political. Although there are inherent limitations in trying to outline the virology of the future, we hope this article will help inspire the next generation of virologists.

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Concepts Keywords
Biology cancer
Enormous chronic disease
Today co-infection
Virologists COVID-19
Viruses History, 21st Century
Host-Pathogen Interactions
Humans
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2
therapies
vaccines
Virology
virology
virosphere
Virus Diseases
Viruses

Semantics

Type Source Name
drug DRUGBANK Nonoxynol-9
disease MESH COVID-19 pandemic
disease MESH viral disease
disease IDO host
disease IDO role
disease MESH chronic diseases
disease IDO cell
disease MESH cancer
disease MESH co-infection
disease IDO history
disease IDO pathogen

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