Virology

... Co-selection of West Nile virus nucleotides that confer resistance to an antisense oligomer while maintaining long-distance RNA/RNA base pairings. Virology. 2008 Oct 6. [Epub ahead of print] Abes R, Moulton HM, Clair P, Yang ST, Abes S, Melikov K, Prevot P, Youngblood DS, Iversen PL, Chernomordik ...

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Hi everyone, I'm in a training period, in a laboratory of virology. Using in vitro transcription, we synthetized a ~8 kb RNA, and then we used DNase to get rid of all DNA. After that, we purified our RNAs. By PCR and electrophoresis, we found out that ...

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The short answer is that picornaviurses haven’t developed any means to transform or immortalize cells because there is no advantage to the virus to do so. Picornaviruses have no DNA intermediate in their replication cycle, nor do they need much from their host beyond its nucleotide pool, charged tRN...

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hey guys, I am doing a take home exam, and there are few questions I am having trouble with answering properly. The first question is, I have an answer somewhat but I don't know the exact reason why retroviruses cause latent infections. Can someone help me. 1. Discuss why some retroviruses cause lat...

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... clinical genetics, developmental biology and pharmacology 3rd year: pathology, inflammation and immunology, metabolism, biotechnology, virology and molecular toxicology. finally the researchproject and the bachelor thesis most of the courses in the 2nd and 3rd year are optional courses ...

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