Tagged: flu

Scientists discovered a “cheap, easy, and quick” way to make polio vaccines using plant leaves.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Friday Think: The curious process of turning plants into...

Scientists predicted that cacao trees may be extinct by 2050 due to factors including climate change, pests and fungal infections. To save chocolate, “the food of the gods”, researchers within the chocolate industry is...

As the FDA meets to plan next year’s flu vaccine, companies like Medicago are testing innovative technologies designed to minimize the risk of another devastating outbreak.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics...

Author summary Dengue virus (DENV) is a human pathogen transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. Infection with DENV causes dengue fever and may develop into life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever. Dengue disease is increasing globally and current...

AbstractSummary. Existing ancestral sequence reconstruction techniques are ill-suited to investigating substitutions on a single branch of interest. We presentSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca SubRecon: Ancestral Reconstruction of Amino...

AbstractSummary. We report an update for the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program to enable parallel calculation of large numbers of sequences. The G-INS-See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Parallelization...

Influenza A virus in swine (IAV-S) is a prevalent respiratory pathogen in pigs that has deleterious consequences to animal and human health. Pigs represent an important reservoir for influenza and potential mixing vessel for...

We present here 10 steps to facilitate researchers getting started in genome assembly and genome annotation. The guidelines given are broadly applicable, intended to be stable over time, and cover all aspects from start...

The next NCBI Minute highlights some of the highly used classic textbooks available (for free!) on the NCBI Bookshelf, points out some new ones that have been recently added, introduces why several publishers and...

Scientists have been able to prove that a protein structure widespread in nature — the amyloid — is theoretically capable of multiplying itself. This makes it a potential predecessor to molecules that are regarded...