• Question: what viruses have you worked with?

    Asked by zest532kore55 to Martina M on 12 Mar 2026.
    • Photo: Martina Mattioli

      Martina Mattioli answered on 12 Mar 2026:


      Hi! In the past, I worked with Baculoviruses, they’re viruses that don’t infect humans at all, just insects. They’re quite safe to use, so I was trying to find a way to make them infect human cells (no experiments on real people!) without side effects, so we could use these viruses to transport medicines into people (like how pills work) when we can’t use pills or other methods we already have available,

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