Viral One-Liners (or: Single-Stranded Humor)

With the NinjaBaker well and truly launched, his new area of study, Molecular Virology, has yielded some great one-liners.

FIRST:

Because he wants to study HIV, for his birthday last year I went to Giant Microbes.com and sent him his very own HIV virion:

But the best part was pointing out that because it was me sending it to him, technically it counted as maternal transmission.

SECOND:

The first month, he worked in a lab studying a virus that infects certain insects, which allowed me to quip:

“Ah: bug bugs.”

THIRD:

This month he is studying SIV, simian immunodeficiency virus, the monkey version of AIDS. It’s all bench work, studying molecular mechanisms; he’s not working with actual animals at all. My response:

“I see; just Rhesus pieces.”