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Virology in Umeå is concerned with every aspect of viruses: how they are built up, how they replicate, how they cause disease and whether they can be reprogrammed to defeat diseases such as cancer. Umeå virologists are present at several departments on campus and are happily collaborating with the larger life science community in Umeå and worldwide.
Viruses exist in every corner of our planet and every part of its ecosystems. They are there in every aspect of human life. There are some viruses that we carry with us our entire lives if infected, such as herpesviruses and HIV. And others have infected us, replicated, spread to other humans and been defeated by our immune systems within days or weeks. New viruses are discovered all the time.
Viruses create small spaces of their own in cells membrane, where they secretly can do great harm.