The term viral refers to an infection driven by a virus and examples include COVID-19, AIDS, measles, hepatitis, and smallpox. Viruses contain DNA or RNA and must infect host cells in order to replicate and they can damage the host during this process. Antiviral medications or vaccines can treat viral infections.
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Infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 compromises the immune system and causes in about half of the affected individuals neurological and neurocognitive complication categorize...
Flaviviruses are pathogens of global public health concern. They include dengue virus (DENV), West Nile virus (WNV), and zika virus (ZIKV). There are no approved US Food and Drug Administrat...
Date: July 07, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) The DNA damage response is extremely crucial in maintaining genomic integrity. Failure to repair damaged DNA can result in the propagati...
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases (AD, PD) are the two most common neurodegenerative disorders. Despite their debilitating effects and increasing prevalence in society, no cur...
Over 40 tandem repeats undergo expansion events that lead to neurological disease. This number is likely an underestimate as many repeats are difficult to amplify using existing short read s...
Date: August 18, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Discover the tools to phenotype your NK cells and to perform functional analyses such as cellular cytotoxicity assays. From NK cell is...
Date: July 27, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Dr Gish (Insert credentials and role with Hep B Foundation) will cover current USPSTF recommendations (risk based) and HBFoundation for...
Date: July 27, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) The Origin of Biopharmaceutics (Biopharma) derive from The Division of Clinical Research in the U.S. Bureau of Medicine. However, author...
Genome editing technologies have enabled the precise manipulation of DNA sequences at targeted sites to achieve therapeutic effects. Engineered endonucleases like CRISPR-Cas9 institute site-...