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Miguel Pita in conversation with Ana Pais

Explaining viruses

Arequipa 2020, Monday 2 November 2020

What are viruses really? Why do they affect us so much? How can we learn to live with these creatures, which are not really living but which behave as if they were? At a time when a virus is dictating how we all live, we need to listen to experts such as Miguel Pita (Spain). A Doctor of Genetics and Cellular Biology, researcher, lecturer and popular scientist, he is the author of the successful El ADN dictador (2017) and Un día en la vida de un virus (2020). In conversation with the BBC Mundo journalist, Ana Pais.