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The Contribution of Knowledge of Virus Evolution for a Strategy of...
Most infectious diseases that have put heavy burdens on humans came from animal viruses. The examples of such influential diseases are the 1918 influenza pandemic, also known as the 'Spanish Flu' pandemic, that killed 20 – 50 million people worldwide... Read more »
Epigenetics in plants - considerations for the Risk Assessment of G...
GMOs - Risk Assessment During the 1990s the commercialization of transgenic plants started and the paradigm of a linear “one gene - one protein” was at the basis of the risk assessment. Regulation of genes is far more complex and epigenetic mechanism... Read more »
To what extent does the interspecies transmission in hemagglutinin...
The introduction of a strain of influenza virus A that has a new variety of the hemagglutinin gene to human population has been recorded in several outbreaks. The new hemagglutinin gene is typically acquired from other species, such as birds or swi... Read more »
The J Programming Language
J is a high-level, general purpose programming language, though it is mostly suited to mathematical and statistical applications. The system comprises an interpreter, a number of package utilities, labs and documentation. J supports a number of Unix... Read more »
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Patients with HIV: A Review of the...
Several studies have found that people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at a higher rate than that of the general population (Gore-Felton et al., 2001; Kimerling et al., 1999; Martine... Read more »
Why do we still use adenoviral type 5 backbones for Gene Therapy?
I worked for several years in adenoviral research. My main research focus was to understand the evolution of adenoviruses and to understand how recombination events of adenoviruses effects the emergence of new adenoviruses. Adenoviruses are widely kn... Read more »
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