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Coevolutionary dynamics of viruses and their defective interfering particles

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By John Yin, Shiv Muthupandiyan
| PLOS
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article ? This is an uncorrected proof. Citation: Muthupandiyan S, Yin J (2026) Coevolutionary dynamics of viruses and their defective interfering particles. PLoS Comput Biol 22(5): e1014300. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014300 Editor: Tyler Cassidy, University of Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND Received: October 22, 2025; Accepted: May 6, 2026; Published: May 20, 2026 Copyright: © 2026 Muthupandiyan, Yin.
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Deletion detection in SARS-CoV-2 genomes using multiplex-PCR sequencing from COVID-19 patients: elimination of false positives

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By Nan Jiang, Colin N Dewey, John Yin
| medRxiv
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How Zombies Can Help Prevent the Next Pandemic

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By John Yin
| Scientific American Verified
Most people know of some of the tools that help us fight pandemics: safe and effective vaccines, antiviral and antibody treatments, and for respiratory infections such as COVID, public-health measures such as masks. But they have overlooked one tool that might help us prevent the next pandemic: zombie viral genomes. Zombie viruses are the crippled byproducts of viral infection that can’t reproduce without help.
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