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Structure of tick-borne virus revealed at atomic resolution for the first time
As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds—ticks.
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Researchers use cryo-EM to map Powassan virus structure at high resolution
As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds - ticks.
Fundamental role of the membrane structure of mitochondria identified
Mitochondria are cell organelles surrounded by a double membrane. In addition to numerous essential functions in the ...
Swiss genome of the 1918 influenza virus reconstructed
Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode ...
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Century-old virus sample helps decode deadliest influenza pandemic in history
Researchers successfully decoded the genome of the 1918 influenza virus by utilizing an over 100-year-old formalin-fixed ...
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Astrocytic modulation of population encoding in mouse visual cortex via GABA transporter 3 revealed by multiplexed CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing
CRISPR construct to genetically ablate the GABA transporter GAT3 in the mouse visual cortex, with effects on population-level neuronal activity. This work is important, as it sheds light on how GAT3 ...