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Ed Rybicki’s insight: For anyone who actually WANTS to check on the taxonomic status of their favourite virus? See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Journal of General Virology – Introduction to ‘ICTV Virus...

Cermak et al, 2017We report a comprehensive toolkit that enables targeted, specific modification of monocot and dicot genomes using a variety of genome engineering approaches. Our reagents, based on TALENs and the CRISPR/Cas9 system,...

Despite the multiple benefits that research offers, undergraduates sometimes struggle and feel overwhelmed with the research process. Some undergraduates may not be familiar with the dynamics of the lab and may be afraid to...

Understanding immunity to viruses therefore encompasses many, if not nearly all aspects of cell biology and immunology. A positive trend of the past twenty years of viral research is that the connection between viruses...

An international team of researchers, including NCBI’s Eugene Koonin and Natalya Yutin, has discovered a novel group of giant viruses (dubbed “Klosneuviruses”) with a more complete set of translation machinery genes than any virus...

Summary: This paper presents MarDRe, a de novo cloud-ready duplicate and near-duplicate removal tool that can process single-end and paired-end reads from FASTQ/FASTA datasets. MarDRe takes advantage of the widely adopted MapReduce programming model...

QuickBLASTP, an accelerated version of BLASTP, adds a new pre-processing step to the non-redundant (nr) protein database. In a matter of seconds, QuickBLASTP will find approximately 97% of the database sequences with 70% or...

The balance between detrimental, pro-aging, often stochastic processes and counteracting homeostatic mechanisms largely determines the progression of aging. There is substantial evidence suggesting that the endocannabinoid system (ECS) is part of the latter system...

New studies show that there is no such thing as “pure” European—or anyone else. Almost all of us are the children of repeated ancient migrations, according to researchers who study ancient human origins. Indigenous Europeans,...

Roger Launius on a valentine to the astronauts behind Apollo 8 and Earthrise. Ed Rybicki’s insight:I remember hanging on every news broadcast to find out what had happened. Stirring times! See it on Scoop.it,...