Reverse genetics system enhances vaccine development for African swine fever virus
Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock ...
How bacteria 'vaccinate' themselves with genetic material from dormant viruses
Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...
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Researchers develop a reverse genetics system for African swine fever virus
Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock ...
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Tools Designed to Develop African Swine Fever Virus Vaccines More Efficiently
A recent study estimates if ASFV reached the United States it could result in economic losses exceeding $50 billion over a ten-year period.
Glowing Monkeys? Scientists Rewrite the Rules of Primate Genetic Engineering
Japanese researchers used a nonviral piggyBac system to genetically modify cynomolgus monkeys, enabling more accurate disease ...
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Viruses identified in red tide blooms for the first time
In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers used viral metagenomics to identify several viruses — including one new ...
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Protecting crops: Researchers open up new avenue to combat a widespread plant virus
New RNA-based active agents reliably protect plants against the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common virus in agriculture and horticulture. They were developed by researchers at the Martin ...
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Developing nonviral gene delivery system in Primate
Genetic engineering in non-human primates has long been limited by the need for virus-based gene delivery methods. Recently, ...
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“Effective dsRNAs” Combat Cucumber Mosaic Virus in Tests
Research lead Sven-Erik Behrens, PhD, at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology at MLU, and colleagues, reported ...
Bird flu tops list of viruses likely to cause another pandemic - so authorities are on high alert
As avian influenza is found in a sheep in Yorkshire, the close contact humans have with domesticated animals is an extra ...
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Researchers design tools to develop vaccines more efficiently for African swine fever virus (ASFV)
Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock ...
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how bacteria 'vaccinate' themselves with genetic material from dormant viruses
The bacteria steal genetic material from temperate phages during ... Equipped with these memories, the new population can recognize these viruses and fight them off. A report on the experiments ...