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Benjamin tenOever

@virusninja

Love all things related to viruses. Professor of Microbiology and Medicine, Director of the Institute of Virology at NYU, and co-founder of Archean Biologics

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1 year ago

I agree that only a few ISGs are responsible for the antiviral activity against a family of viruses, but the subset involved can differ dramatically. Mx for some, OAS for others, etc. The IFN system works by targeting many biologies simultaneously - only some of which will work.

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