Healthy Antagonism :The Scientist [2007-05-01]


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Healthy Antagonism Although Mary Poss is still setting up her lab at Penn State's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, she takes time to participate in other labs' meetings. A veterinarian and now pathologist, Poss worked on retroviruses before growing frustrated with what she saw as myopia in the research community. She became interested in how viruses leap from one creature to another and how their genes