How to Use virology in a Sentence

virology

noun
  • At the time, the study of virology was in its infancy, and researchers didn't yet have the tools to see viruses.
    — USA Today, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Beck is not a medical doctor and has no background in virology.
    — Time, 14 May 2020
  • For a virology class this fall, Caruso asked students to mail him some soil samples to be used in a remote lab.
    — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The science of what can be done in virology, with modern techniques, is quite impressive.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • Because the virus has been a research subject for so long, it was used to develop fundamental ideas in virology.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The viral sequences, most researchers say, also knock down the idea the pathogen came from a virology institute in Wuhan.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 31 Jan. 2020
  • The reputation of the world’s virology community has taken a major hit in the past year.
    — John P. Moore, STAT, 10 Nov. 2021
  • This course will focus less on the hard science of virology and immunology, but more on social science aspects of pandemics.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Rubio and others say the virus may have leaked from a virology lab in Wuhan, China, and that theory needs to be fully probed.
    — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 29 July 2021
  • The team, which is working with a local virology lab, aims to begin clinical validations within the next six months.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 July 2020
  • In virology speak, the virus is of the Influenza A type, and is called H5N1.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • The federal agencies issued the guidelines after consulting with wildlife health and virology experts over the past year.
    — Eric Niiler, Wired, 1 July 2021
  • Ho Mei-shang is an expert in virology and adjunct research fellow at Academia Sinica.
    — Joyu Wang, WSJ, 4 May 2022
  • This pathology of political pressure rushing research in pursuit of speed is sadly not new—even in the world of virology and pandemics.
    — Albert Ko, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Earlier this month, researchers from the virology institute in Wuhan filed an application to patent the drug’s use for treating the virus.
    — Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
  • This is a question that lots of people have been asking, and while a number of strong assertions have been made, a lot of them completely ignore the science of modern virology.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • Among them was the explanation that Wuhan – the Chinese city where the virus first began spreading – is home to a prominent virology lab.
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The samples are kept in a refrigerator until a courier comes to deliver them to the UW virology lab.
    — Wudan Yan, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
  • The medical specialty of virology began with the Spanish flu.
    — Katie V. Jones, Howard County Times, 3 May 2018
  • There is some new optimism because the effort to resume normal operations is taking place against some of the best virology data of the pandemic.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 4 May 2021
  • In terms of virology, the potential for the novel coronavirus to lead to human death much faster than HIV is to be expected.
    — Steven W. Thrasher, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Miyashiro was now living in student housing in the Bronx with his wife, a graduate student in virology at Einstein College.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
  • But Covaxin, which has roots in a lab at India’s top virology institute, was always seen more as a symbol of national pride.
    — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The virus then likely spread among cows who were near each other or the birds, however, there isn't yet definitive proof of this, said Diel, who is an associate professor of virology.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The question now, though, is whether Gilead can still be considered a turnaround story that can diversify beyond its core virology business and return to growth levels seen in the past.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Fredrik Elgh, a professor of virology at Umea University, points to the high death toll as evidence the light-touch approach has failed.
    — Niclas Rolander, Bloomberg.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • The other, the lab leak hypothesis, posits that the virus escaped from a virology lab in Wuhan, China, where it may have been deliberately concocted.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Given that the epicenter of the outbreak, Wuhan, had its own virology institute, that raised the possibility that the coronavirus had been engineered in the lab.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Experts have widely speculated that the pandemic started in Wuhan, China, either from the wildlife wet markets or from a virology lab near Wuhan.
    — Fox News, 9 May 2020
  • Together, the team picks apart the latest news in virology and discusses big-name viruses, such as Zika, HIV and influenza.
    — Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018

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