Friendship isn’t a tit-for-tat balance sheet, but that’s how researchers have traditionally defined it. New studies are refining the model to be less about transactions and truer to real life.
- Associate Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University
Cancer cells are ‘cheaters’ that do not cooperate with the rest of the body. Certain microbes in your diet can either protect against or promote tumor formation by influencing cell cooperation.
SARS-CoV-2 is much like a zombie virus. It interferes with normal sickness behavior and blocks pain, turning its victims into unsick spreaders of the virus.
Los patógenos suelen enfrentarse a un equilibrio entre la virulencia y la transmisión. Pero ese no es el caso con el SARS-CoV-2.
Pathogens typically face a trade-off between virulence and transmission. But that’s not the case with SARS-CoV-2.
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