A newly discovered organism is challenging the fundamental definition of life, blurring the lines between viruses and ...
Steffini Stalos, DO, FCAP, is a pathology and lab medicine physician. She is also the chief medical officer of the lab consultancy firm Blood Associates, LLC. Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration ...
Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...