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Nucleocapsid protein was expressed and self-assembled as VLP. It was found that VLP was smaller than head of virus which was observed under EM.
01 January 2016 1,459 4 View
My question came up after reading the paper by Yutin et al. 2013.
01 January 2016 5,798 1 View
This is not a scientific question, but rather an opportunity. A colleague of mine is looking to recruit a food virologist as business manager and it is looking rather difficult. If you are...
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Any specific microtubule inhibitors that can be designed against specific viruses to block their entry and aggregation into host cells? 1. Reovirus Cell Entry Requires Functional...
01 January 2016 1,269 6 View
Although retroviruses appear to be ancient, and are found occassionaly endogenised in the germ lines of such ancient lineages as reptiles, they are only found in very large numbers in the germ...
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I have almost 100% of infected cells (GFP+) by infecting 250000 Jurkat cells by 10 microliters of lentiviral suspension, which were added to a cellular suspension of 250 microliters. By knowing...
01 January 2016 9,083 7 View
I don't know if HIV-1-ⅢB virus is a threat to researchers.Should we be very careful when do related researches.Thank you.
12 December 2015 7,043 10 View
I have got some dead chickens suspected to virus Ankara, however, I failed to find related papers on detecting virus Ankara, either design good primers. Could anyone do me a favor to give the...
12 December 2015 4,663 2 View
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I am studying about infections and immune response level.
12 December 2015 3,699 5 View
This year during dengue season (Jul-Oct) in Dhaka there were reports on dengue fever like symptoms but negative in NS1 and IgM. Aedes aegypti is plenty in Dhaka. We suspect it may be due to Ziaka...
12 December 2015 1,227 5 View
I've been trying to expand the CMV strain AD169 in fibroblasts without success. I'm following the protocol provided by the NIH AIDS reagent program: I'm infecting the fibroblasts monolayer using a...
12 December 2015 7,873 5 View
Have been running an experiment to grow high titre virus that I have repeated twice using the same virus batch, and also repeated the experiment with a different batch of virus i.e. stocks that...
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A breastfeeding mother is potentially exposed to rabies, after being bitten by a stray dog that bit another person and disappeared. Rabies vaccine was started some 3 days after the bite, and...
13 November 2015 4,286 4 View
I am trying to compare some kinetics model (like first order rate model, HOM and EFH) for virus inactivation with disinfectant. I also do not really understand the application of solver in excel...
11 November 2015 1,377 0 View
Should we use PEG-NaCl solution or some other method? Please write in detail.
11 November 2015 6,014 5 View
I inoculum 5X10^3 pfu H1N1 influenza virus to mice through intranasal injection, but the result shows that no matter after 48 hrs, 72 hrs or 96 hrs, the virus titer of mice lung tissue still...
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Hi There were some experiments going on in our lab and I am comparatively new to the field. Cells infected with virus were stained with DAPI. I read about and DAPI and found that they tag to DNA...
11 November 2015 5,642 8 View
Two virus strains were used, say A and B, and serum raised from each virus were tested against themselves (homologous) and the other strain (heterologous). The ND50 titre was calculated by Karber...
11 November 2015 7,249 1 View
I have a problem with gateway technology and LR reaction.I Perform LR reaction with various vector concentrations but the reaction is not carryout. I did check LR enzyme and this enzyme worked...
30 October 2015 9,347 2 View
The transmission of vector-borne diseases that are related to arboviruses is dependent on the extrinsic incubation period inside the vector insects (e.g. mosquitos). When estimating the risks and...
10 October 2015 1,286 1 View