Rotavirus VLP vaccine
The particles like virus constitute a new vaccine concept. Such particles have self-assembled structural proteins from the virus which can elicit an immune response but as they lack the genetic material from the virus...
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Recent trends in vaccine delivery systems: A review
Vaccines are the preparations given to patients to evoke immune responses leading to the production of antibodies (humoral) or cell-mediated responses that will combat infectious agents or noninfectious conditions such as malignancies. Alarming safetSee...
Secrets of the CRISPR Arms Race | GEN Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News – Biotech from Bench to Business | GEN
Anti-CRISPR proteins analyzed by cryo-electron microscopy reveal their structural and functional secretsSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Secrets of the CRISPR Arms Race | GEN Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News...
Ten simple rules for short and swift presentations
In the spirit of light, quick, and exact (but without the lazy dog), here are ten simple rules for presentation formats that do not wait for the speaker. A slide deck and a video...
Half Of All PhD Students Suffer From Psychological Distress
PhD students are far more at risk from suffering from a mental health problem than the general population, according to a new study.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Half Of...
Innate Immune Responses of Bat and Human Cells to Filoviruses
Marburg (MARV) and Ebola (EBOV) viruses are zoonotic pathogens that cause severe hemorrhagic fever in humans. The natural reservoir of MARV is the Egyptian rousette bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus); that of EBOV is unknown but...
Cas9-Mediated Viral Gene Targeting for Antiviral Therapy of Bombyx mori Nucleopolyhedrovirus
We developed a novel antiviral strategy by combining transposon-based transgenesis and the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated 9 (Cas9) system for the direct cleavage of Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) genome DNA to...
What’s N50?
This is the first in a series of posts where we explain the N50 (Nx) metric, discuss the problems surrounding it, give solutions to those problems, and suggest an alternative N50 metric for transcr…See...
Nucleic and Amino Acid Sequences Support Structure-Based Viral Classification
Viral capsids protect nucleic acid genomes, which in turn encode capsid proteins. This tight coupling of protein shell and nucleic acids, together with strong functional constraints on capsid protein folding and architecture, leads to...
From crescent to mature virion: vaccinia virus assembly and maturation. – PubMed – NCBI
Abstract Vaccinia virus (VACV) has achieved unprecedented success as a live viral vaccine for smallpox which mitigated eradication of the disease. Vaccinia virus has a complex virion morphology and recent advances have been made...
