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See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca New crispr-based diagnostic platform unveiled Source: Viral Bioinformatics

See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Imaging HIV-1 Genomic DNA from Entry through Productive Infection Source: Viral Bioinformatics

Metrics derived from Twitter and other social media—often referred to as altmetrics—are increasingly used to estimate the broader social impacts of scholarship. Such efforts, however, may produce highly misleading results, as the entities that...

Jobs in scienceSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Careers in Virology: Working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Source: Viral Bioinformatics

A mouse study reveals a causal link between changes in intestinal microbiota and increasing inflammation as the rodents age. See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Gut Microbes Contribute to Age-Associated...

Podoconiosis, a noninfectious elephantiasis, is a disabling neglected tropical disease. In August 2015, an elephantiasis case-cluster was reported in Kamwenge District, western Uganda. We investigated to identify the disease’s nature and risk factors. We...

All tools are accessible as Apps in the CyVerse Discovery Environment (formerly iPlant). The CyVerse Cyberinfrastructure is a freely available resource for computation, storage, and data analysis for the life sciences. We plan to...

See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Zika Virus Infection of the Human Glomerular Cells: Implications for Viral Reservoirs and Renal Pathogenesis | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic...

A new report from The Scripps Research Institute in California has found a way to make cells resistant to HIV. Antibodies bind to cell receptors that block the virus from infecting it.See it on...

Nullbasic is a mutant HIV-1 Tat protein that inhibits HIV-1 replication via three independent mechanisms that disrupts 1) reverse transcription of the viral RNA genome into a DNA copy, 2) HIV-1 Rev protein function...