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Virology is a branch of science that mainly focuses on some of the conventional fields of viruses and mainly involves virus classification, structure, infection and other advanced scientific areas. It covers areas like viral genomics, all computational approaches in several viral diseases of living and non-living organisms. In last few years the world has been witnessing some of the major issues involving viruses like HIV, HPV and this are challenging researchers with some of the most recent outbreaks like EBOLA and Zika virus. This clearly indicates that the world of virologist should become more active and updated.
One of the most important and striking characteristics of virus is their fast-evolutionary changing aspects in nature. The continuous interaction between viruses and other host organisms is promoting rapid changes in the population of virus thereby leading to virus and host evolution for their sustension.
A perfect research in virology mainly offers structural and functional information about the viruses and host interaction and gives molecular and biological facts to understand better the infection, replication, pathogenesis, cell/host tropism and the direction of virus evolution. And research should also involve methods for controlling the transmission and replication of pathogenic viruses.
But due to lack of analytical methodologies, there is very poor accumulation of information on the structure, function and evolution of viruses. But recent advancement in the genomic science as well as computational approach may open novel avenue of research of the virus and host interaction by incorporating information on evolution, structure and functions. If you are among those thinking of pursuing some research work in the field of virology, and searching for some new topics, then here are few topics based on virology which you can take up for conducting research.
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