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The Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa is one of 14 centres for which the trust announced funding on 7 December. It will be based at the University of Cape Town under...

Assembly of recombinant capsid proteins into virus-like particles (VLPs) still represents an interesting challenge in virus-based nanotechnologies. The structure of VLPs has gained importance for the development and design of new adjuvants and antigen...

Viruses are incredibly diverse organisms and impact all forms of life on Earth; however, individual virions are challenging to study due to their small size and mass, precluding almost all direct imaging or molecular...

Soda lakes are unique environments in terms of their physical characteristics and the biology they harbour. Although well studied with respect to their microbial composition, their viral compositions have not, and consequently few bacteriophages...

Many infectious diseases are more likely to progress to serious illness or death in men than in women, which has been attributed to a stronger immune response in women.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses...

Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging mosquito-transmitted flavivirus that now causes epidemics affecting millions of people on multiple continents. The virus has reached global attention because of some of its unusual epidemiological and clinical...

More than 400 hours’ worth of inspiring videos listed in one spreadsheet TED features some of the most inspiring presentations you can watch today from the comfort of your home–with prominent speakers covering all sorts...

Top 10 data mining algorithms, selected by top researchers, are explained here, including what do they do, the intuition behind the algorithm, available implementations of the algorithms, why use them, and interesting applications.See it...

MoocNote is a free tool for taking notes while watching a YouTube or Vimeo video. All of your notes are timestamped and all of your noteSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from...

Government scientists are very worried, apparently with good reason, that their new boss wants to muzzle them. They’ve just come up witSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Government scientists go...