Editor's message: the challenge of virus sanitizing with microwaves

摘要

Both microorganisms and viruses are germs; the difference is that the first ones are alive while the viruses are a sort of capsules with genetic material that reproduce themselves by replication in a living host. They can produce illnesses by killing, damaging, or changing the cells. The viruses are inactivated, rather than killed, by destroying their lipid capsule with detergent, soap, or a 70% alcohol solution.