Drosophila CRISPR Web Resources Name Link Description OxfCRISPR (Liu Lab) http://www.oxfcrispr.org Oxford Fly CRISPR Resources CRISPRflydesign (Bullock Lab) http://www.crisprflydesign.org/ Offers Cas9 transgenic stocks DRSC CRISPR finder (Perrimon Lab) http://www.flyrnai.org/crispr/ A web tool to identify CRISPRs for fly study FlyCas9 (Ueda… Read More ›
Virus
What are Circular Oligonucleotides?
Circular oligonucleotides are covalently closed singular DNA or RNA strands that are resistant to degradation by many cellular DNA and RNA decay machineries. [Source: (left) Modelling DNA; Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A-2006-Harris-3319-34; (right) David Goodsell: The self-splicing RNA in PDB… Read More ›
What are Nano-flares? What are the features of nano-flares?
Answer 1 . A “nano-flare” refers to a very small solar flare that happens in the corona, the external atmosphere of the Sun. . Answer 2 . Nano-flares are a new class of intracellular molecular probes. . This blog is… Read More ›
Are viruses hiding within us?
Recent research results indicate that viral sequences are part of us. Endogenous viral elements (EVEs) or endogenous retroviral elements (ERVs) have been identified in eukaryotic genomes including the human genome. The findings revealed the enormous scale of the invasion of… Read More ›
Why should I test my CHO cell culture for virus infections?
The answer is: … CHO cells can be infected in bioreactors with viruses such as Vesivirus 2117! … The presence of a virus in a bioreactor can inflict major losses for biotech and pharmaceutical companies involved in the manufacturing of… Read More ›
Why are some infections with certain flu virus strains fatal and others are not?
The answer may be found in human CD4+ T cells Virus specific memory CD4+ T cells numbers predict the outcome of human influenza infections Wilkinson et al. in 2012 showed that CD4+ T cells that are activated by earlier influenza virus… Read More ›
Peptides for Influenza Research
Synthetic peptides are versatile tools to help develop vaccines against new Influenza A viral strains Pools or libraries of synthetic peptides derived from Influenza A viral proteins can be used to screen for and identify human leukocyte class I (HLA-I)… Read More ›
