Miriam Kritzer Van Zant

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What is the current state of methods for studying epigenetic mechanisms?

My work is with highly plastic eukaryote taxa, with real time visible structural variation on individuals. I suspect they have high epigenetic fluidity while growing, and would like to understand...

22 February 2022 5,575 2 View

Is RdRp from Influenza A inserted into a mammalian host's nucleus or derived from inserted viral RNA?

This paper describes in part what is going on with Influenza A: Article Influenza A: Understanding the Viral Life Cycle and says, "The influenza viral genome is made up of negative sense strands...

11 April 2021 6,793 3 View

How does influenza and some other viruses get their nucleotides into the host nucleus?

Influenza virus contains RNA not DNA. Influenza tricks the human nuclear envelope into lettting in viral nucleotides. How does that happen? What are the steps? Does influenze reverse...

10 April 2021 7,391 3 View

Is there a chance that vaccine mRNA could result in overproduction of an antiviral antigen, exhausting cellular resources?

Viruses hijack host protein production. This harms cells by using up resources needed to make other proteins. If an mRNA vaccine induces production of a specific antigen, could it also use up...

23 November 2020 8,836 3 View