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Written by Tara Hills I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me. Emotionally I’m a bit raw. Mentally a bit taxed. Physically I’m fine.  All seven of my unvaccinated...

Quadratic equations are basic to algebra and are the math behind parabolas, projectiles, satellite dishes and the golden ratio. Source: www.livescience.com See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca

I have a little secret: I don’t like the terminology, notation, and style of writing in statistics. I find it unnecessarily complicated. This shows up when trying to read about Markov Chain Monte C…...

Scientists have found evidence that a polio-like virus called EV-D68 is behind a mysterious outbreak of paralysis in children [in the USA] last year.   LAST YEAR, HUNDREDS of children across the country got sick...

It’s related to herpes. And it infects most of the world — about half of Americans, nearly all the developing world. But don’t go out and get infected. The virus has a dark side,...

TWIN FALLS • A major disease threat to winter wheat and barley has appeared in fields across southern Idaho.   Barley yellow dwarf virus “is rampant from Parma to Ririe,” said Juliet Marshall, a...

Naturally occurring oncolytic viruses are live, replication-proficient viruses that specifically infect human cancer cells while sparing normal cell counterparts. Since the eradication of smallpox in the 1970s with the aid of vaccinia viruses, the...

The multiple sequence alignment editing question recently on our What’s the Answer? feature was popular. We have covered MSA editors in the past, and we include Source: blog.openhelix.eu See on Scoop.it – Virology and...

Comparing and aligning genomes is a key step in analyzing closely related genomes. Despite the development of many genome aligners in the last 15 years, the problem is not yet fully resolved, even when aligning...

Source: jid.oxfordjournals.org See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca