Man vs. Virus Man vs. Virus Molecular biologist Michael Lai has spent nearly three decades studying these tricky little parasites. After more than 25 years of studying the tiny disease-carrying microbes, Michael Lai thinks so.
Viruses are very intelligent.
They can think. They do things that we do not expect. They adapt to the environment. Once in, they commandeer the cell's nucleic acid and protein-making machinery so that more copies of the virus can be made. Lai has long probed how these tricky parasites work.