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AuthorGrace C Roberts

Grace is a postdoctoral research fellow in Virology, at the Wellcome Wolfson Institute of Experimental Medicine at Queen's University Belfast. Her current research focuses on respiratory viruses and the development of asthma in children as part of the Wellcome Trust's Breathing Together Project. Grace obtained her PhD at the University of Leeds in 2019, with the study of Chikungunya virus and its interactions with host cell immune pathways. Grace's experience in virology includes work mosquito-borne viruses (e.g. Chikungunya virus), Hepatitis C virus and Adenoviruses.
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Five techniques we’re using to uncover the secrets of viruses

by Grace C Roberts Apr 3, 2021Apr 3, 2021

Viruses are often termed “the invisible enemy”. They aren’t visible with the naked eye, or even by using a standard optical microscope. So how do we know they exist or what they look like?

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