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See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca This factual story of the smallpox epidemic in the Windsor, Ontario, Canada area in 1924; I write to jog memories of one horrible killer disease...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca I interviewed Harald zur Hausen, MD., recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, at the 2013 meeting of the Society for General...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca What if every virus in the world were collected into one area? How much volume would they take up and what would they look like?...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Measurements of the presence of prions in biological tissues or fluids rely more and more on cell-free assays. Although protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) has...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Metadata-driven comparative analysis tool for sequences (meta-CATS): An automated process for identifying significant sequence variations that correlate with virus attributes See on www.virologyhighlights.com

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Every year, there are about 150,000 cases of a disease whose impact in the deserts of the American Southwest “is equal to the impact of...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Measles is caused by a highly infectious virus.  The illness starts with a cough, runny nose and fever, and a rash that covers the face...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Trophic cascade effects occur when a food web is disrupted by loss or significant reduction of one or more of its members. In East African...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Productive herpesvirus infection requires a profound, time-controlled remodeling of the viral transcriptome and proteome. To gain insights into the genomic architecture and gene expression control...

See on Scoop.it – Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca The expected reduction in cervical cancer incidence as result of increased access to antiretroviral therapy is yet to be seen. In this study we investigated...