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Caption: Georgia Tech School of Biology assistant professor Joshua Weitz developed a model that proposes a mechanistic explanation to a long-standing paradox by showing that when multiple viruses infect a host cell, those viruses can make a collective decision rather than behaving as they would individually.
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