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2009–10 Calgary Flames season

Playfair gained notoriety late in the season after video of his wild tantrum against referee Jamie Koharski that involved the coach smashing two sticks went viral.

Academic Spring

The barriers to free access for recent scientific research became a hot topic in 2012, after a blog post by mathematician Timothy Gowers went viral in January.

Antiviral

Antiviral drug, a class of medication used specifically for treating viral infections.

Aurin Squire

He has written and produced a viral video series for the gay social and dating app Mister.

Badacsonytomaj

The town's name was recently used in a viral promotion by Sony to promote a new feature in their PlayStation 3 Home Service.

Balaji Mohan

Among his works, Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi was most popular and went viral on YouTube, garnering overwhelming response.

Banter Media

Since, they have worked in conjunction with Suzuki on the 'Limit Is Yours' viral campaign for the new Suzuki GSX-R1000 which has caused some controversy but has had a lot of success online.

Busty Heart

Busty Heart has done numerous TV shows, including Fox-TV's That's Just Wrong, The WB's Steve Harvey-hosted Steve Harvey's Big Time Challenge season finale, Endemol TV's Private Parts on Channel 5 in England, truTV's World's Dumbest, Bravo TV's Outrageous and Contagious Viral Videos, Fuji TV Tokyo Japan "2006 Bakademy Awards", E!'s Talk Soup, and 2007 Spike TV MANswers.

Capsid

The viral particle must be metastable so that interactions can be reversed readily when entering and uncoating a new host cell.

Citrus tristeza virus

Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) is a viral species of the Closterovirus genus that causes the most economically damaging disease to its namesake plant genus, Citrus.

Craig-James Moncur

Recent productions include "The Banker" which has recevied viral status and over 200,000 YouTube views and premiered at the 2011 Myrtle Beach International Film Festival.

Da rich kidzz

They first saw national success in the Summer of 2012 when the video for their smash hit “Hot Cheetos and Takis,” went viral with over 7 million views, making it one of the hit songs of summer.

Dino Zamparelli

The video of the incident quickly went viral and was viewed over 600,000 times within the first two weeks after being uploaded to YouTube.

Encephalitis

Diagnosis is often made with detection of antibodies in the cerebrospinal fluid against a specific viral agent (such as herpes simplex virus) or by polymerase chain reaction that amplifies the RNA or DNA of the virus responsible (such as varicella zoster virus).

Floxx

Floxx was founded in January 2011 shortly after Rich Martell left University College London following the fallout of his viral student website, FitFinder.

Granulomatous prostatitis

It is a form of prostatitis, i.e. inflammation of the prostate, resulting from infection (bacterial, viral, or fungal), the BCG therapy, malacoplakia or systemic granulomatous diseases which involve the prostate.

Harry Potter Alliance

They launched a viral video consisting of many well-known figures speaking out for the cause, several of the people who took part were John Green, Hank Green, Wil Wheaton, Maureen Johnson and Adam Savage.

Hemorrhagic cystitis

cause of acute viral hemorrhagic cystitis in children, though it can result from BK virus as well.

Hepatitis A vaccine

Each adult dose contains 1440 ELISA units of viral antigen adsorbed on aluminium hydroxide (0.5 mg Al).

Hugo Van Heuverswyn

He obtained a chemistry degree at University of Ghent in 1971, and he obtained a Ph.D. at the Department of Molecular Biology, under Prof. Walter Fiers, where together with his colleagues, he determined for the first time the structure and regulatory mechanisms of a complete viral DNA genome: the virus SV40.

Idiotlamp Productions

Idiotlamp has also produced a number of award winning commercials and viral campaigns, working with leading traditional advertising agencies such as Crispin Porter + Bogusky as well as newer digital agences such as Glue London and Lean Mean Fighting Machine, for clients including Burger King, Boots, AOL, MINI and Virgin Games.

IFIT proteins

IFIT proteins (Interferon Induced proteins with Tetratricopeptide repeats) are produced in human body that are supposed to confer immunity against viral infection.

IMN

Infectious mononucleosis, an infectious, widespread viral disease caused by the Epstein–Barr virus

Jet injector

An experiment using mice, published in 1985, showed that jet injectors would frequently transmit the viral infection LDV from one mouse to another.

Jon Jenkins

He graduated BSc (Hons) and completed a PhD degree, being awarded the University Prize for his postgraduate work in virology, which was followed by studies of viral coat proteins, protein structure prediction, artificial intelligence in medicine, virtual surgery and 3D imagery construction.

Kitty Kane

Katelyn "Kitty" Kane, a United States resident that is known for her application and viral campaign to colonize Mars through the Mars One Project

Koalapop

Based on the street art, skating, punk and rave subcultures of the Bay Area, California, the website features a variety of shirts, hoodies, hats, stickers, printed autographed art, etc., as well as free content such as an RSS feed e-magazine, "viral art" (art which is free to distribute non-commercially), e-stickers, music playlists, and links to videos and other internet content.

Koch Brothers Exposed

Koch Brothers Exposed is a 2012 US political documentary, compiled by Robert Greenwald from a viral video campaign produced by Brave New Films, about the political activities of the Koch brothers.

Mandy Jiroux

The online Dance Battle between their own M&M cru and the ACDC went viral with the final round of the battle being the featured climactic performance on the 2008 Teen Choice Awards.

Motorcycle lane

On 24 April 2013, a video of the poor conditions of the Federal Highway was uploaded to Facebook and went viral throughout blogs and other Facebook pages, including the Ministry of Work's own Facebook page.

Paul S. Berry

He performed the viral load testing for Merck data submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval of Crixivan.

PKIDs

PKIDs’ mission is to educate the public about infectious diseases, the methods of prevention and transmission, and the latest advances in medicine; to eliminate the social stigma borne by the infected; and to assist the families of children living with HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, or other chronic, viral infectious diseases with emotional, financial, and informational support.

Renato Dulbecco

As demonstrated by Temin and Baltimore, who shared the Nobel Prize with Dulbecco, the transfer of viral genes to the cell is mediated by an enzyme called reverse transcriptase (or, more precisely, RNA-dependent DNA polymerase), which replicates the viral genome (in this case made of RNA) into DNA, which is later incorporated in the host genome.

Republic, Pennsylvania

Jeffrey Pelehac, or "The Dancing Cadet", became famous in 2005 because of many viral videos posted on the Internet by his friends at the United States Air Force Academy.

Reverse-transcriptase inhibitor

RTIs inhibit activity of reverse transcriptase, a viral DNA polymerase that is required for replication of HIV and other retroviruses.

Ross River virus

In 1956 an epidemic occurred in the Murray Valley which was compared to "acute viral polyarthritis" caused by Chikungunya virus.

Shin Soo-ji

In 2013 Shin gained global fame for the gymnastic-style ceremonial first pitch she threw at a baseball match between the Doosan Bears and Samsung Lions at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul, which went viral on YouTube.

The Daily Currant

Viral e-mails and Facebook posts claimed in 2013 that NASA's Curiosity rover had found gigantic stone tablets in a cave near Aeolis Mons that were marked with the Ten Commandments and the phrase "I Am Real".

Trueanthem

Leveraging the viral nature of information distribution on the Internet, music and video content is released for download via the company’s proprietary trueWidget, which fans can grab and post to social network platforms or other websites.

Ukiah Oregon

It is revealed that several centuries ago the invasion force of a hive mind species called the Ontongard arrived in the Solar System with the intention of converting all life on Earth into a copy of itself, via a form of viral infection.

VIPR

Virus Pathogen Database and Analysis Resource (ViPR), a publicly available database and analysis resource for viral pathogens in the U.S

Viral art

In truth, viral art likely started in the streets of New York and London in the form of street memes, self-replicating ideas that grow and spread around us, such as, stickers, stencils, posters and pavement art, such as Julian Beever's, that are copied, mutated and posted again throughout the city streets of the world.

Viral vector

A viral vaccine induces expression of pathogen proteins within host cells similarly to the Sabin Polio vaccine and other attenuated vaccines.

Viral video

In a recent blog post, YouTube weblebrity Kevin Nalty, aka Nalts, asks the question “How many views do you need to be viral?” In 2011 he said, “A few years ago, a video could be considered “viral” if it hit a million views.

ViroStatics

Unlike traditional anti-HIV medications that seek solely to reduce viral replication, AV-HALTs also target the chronic immune system hyperactivation now known to contribute to the loss of CD4 T helper cells and disease progression to AIDS.

Volvo FM

In November 2013, Volvo released a viral advertisement on YouTube to promote the FM's dynamic steering system.

Wisconsin Viral Research Group

Wisconsin Viral Research Group is a leading clinical diagnostic labaratory located in Milwaukee county research park in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.

Yeo Valley Organic

In 2010, they launched a £5 million advertising campaign, created by Bartle Bogle Hegarty, featuring the Yeo Valley Rap, using commercial breaks in The X Factor finals, which went viral.


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