A DNA virus is a type of virus that has DNA as genetic material. DNA viruses usually contain double-stranded DNA and use DNA-dependent DNA polymerase to replicate. In contrast to RNA viruses, which have smaller genomes, DNA viruses can encode hundreds of viral proteins once inside the host. Another difference between DNA and RNA viruses is that DNA viruses undertake their replication within the infected cell's nucleus, whereas RNA viruses replicate in the cytoplasm of infected cells. Examples of DNA viruses include the herpesviruses (which cause chickenpox, shingles, and oral and genital herpes), the smallpox viruses, adenoviruses (which cause common colds), and papillomaviruses (such as HPV).
DATE: April 27, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) is a small (25-nm) virus that is composed of a protein shell called a capsid and a single-stranded...
Scientists worldwide are actively working to tame the COVID-19 pandemic by developing therapies for patients with severe disease and a vaccine to stem transmission. Accomplishing these two g...
The Year of Rat is unfortunately dominated by bats due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Although we are not 100% certain that this is a bat virus, all the evidence suggests that there is a high cha...
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is the primary technology used to identify genomic targets for vaccine development. Enhanced options for NGS on Illumina systems now make it possible to iden...
DATE: December 11, 2019 TIME: 7:00am PST, 10:00am EST Rapid growth in the cell and gene therapy industry has generated an urgent need for robust analytics around characterization of both vec...
DATE: December 5, 2019TIME: 5:00am PST, 8:00am EST The diagnosis of an active infection by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) relies on testing for the HBV surface antigen (HBsAg). Ov...
DATE: October 15, 2019TIME: 10:00am PDTAdvances in Next-Generation Sequencing technologies as well as bioinformatic tools have advanced our ability to research and explore both human...
DATE: September 27, 2019TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET Thienopyrazole derivatives have recently emerged as effective antitumoral agents with kinase inhibitory activity. In this s...
DATE: September 18, 2019 TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDTDue to globalization, changes in the environment and climate, and the encroach- ment of humans into natural habitats, recent out...
DATE: September 5, 2019TIME: 7:00am PT, 10:00am ET, 4:00pm CEST PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) has gone through a massive evolution since its development in 1983. Besides it...
DATE: August 15, 2019TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Radiation therapy is a critical tool for the treatment of brain tumors, however, exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation...
DATE: July 31, 2019TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET The choroid plexus, which makes up the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier in the central nervous system (CNS), lines the ventricle...
Rapid, inexpensive, and sensitive nucleic acid detection may aid point-of-care pathogen detection, genotyping, and disease monitoring. We combine the RNA- targeting CRISPR effector Cas13 with...
DATE: April 2, 2019TIME: 3:00pm CEST Dans ce webinaire, Marie Piketty rappelle que depuis quelques années, plusieurs cas d'interférences provoquées par l...
Prodrugs are harmless in their native state, as they are not targeted by human enzymes. But they can be converted into highly toxic compounds (the “drug”) by viral or bacterial en...
There have been an increasing number of successful human gene therapy clinical trials, and in particular gene delivery vehicles or vectors based on the adeno-associated virus (AAV) have enabl...
Machine learning approaches to pattern discovery in protein-protein interaction networks of Huntington’s disease brain and model organisms are revealing novel connections of the disease...
DATE: January 25, 2018TIME: 10:00am PST, 1:00pm EST, 6:00pm GMTOncolytic virotherapy, the use of viral vectors to treat cancer, holds huge promise. Viruses are natural DNA delivery vehi...
DATE: October 19, 2017TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT Recent FDA approval of the first Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy offers cancer patients more promise than...
In the last years, progress has been made regarding the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into neural stem cells and astrocytes, growing into neurospheres and cerebral organoids...
DATE: November 17, 2016
TIME: 8:30am PT, 11:30am ET
The complex interactions between transcription, translation, and post-translational modifications are hidden from view in typ...
The HIV and AIDS pandemic ranks among the most devastating in recorded history. Substantial research efforts over the past 30 years have led to novel discoveries with respect to the vir...
DATE: April 27, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) is a small (25-nm) virus that is composed of a protein shell called a capsid and a single-stranded...
Scientists worldwide are actively working to tame the COVID-19 pandemic by developing therapies for patients with severe disease and a vaccine to stem transmission. Accomplishing these two g...
The Year of Rat is unfortunately dominated by bats due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Although we are not 100% certain that this is a bat virus, all the evidence suggests that there is a high cha...
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is the primary technology used to identify genomic targets for vaccine development. Enhanced options for NGS on Illumina systems now make it possible to iden...
DATE: December 11, 2019 TIME: 7:00am PST, 10:00am EST Rapid growth in the cell and gene therapy industry has generated an urgent need for robust analytics around characterization of both vec...
DATE: December 5, 2019TIME: 5:00am PST, 8:00am EST The diagnosis of an active infection by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) relies on testing for the HBV surface antigen (HBsAg). Ov...
DATE: October 15, 2019TIME: 10:00am PDTAdvances in Next-Generation Sequencing technologies as well as bioinformatic tools have advanced our ability to research and explore both human...
DATE: September 27, 2019TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET Thienopyrazole derivatives have recently emerged as effective antitumoral agents with kinase inhibitory activity. In this s...
DATE: September 18, 2019 TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDTDue to globalization, changes in the environment and climate, and the encroach- ment of humans into natural habitats, recent out...
DATE: September 5, 2019TIME: 7:00am PT, 10:00am ET, 4:00pm CEST PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) has gone through a massive evolution since its development in 1983. Besides it...
DATE: August 15, 2019TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Radiation therapy is a critical tool for the treatment of brain tumors, however, exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation...
DATE: July 31, 2019TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET The choroid plexus, which makes up the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier in the central nervous system (CNS), lines the ventricle...
Rapid, inexpensive, and sensitive nucleic acid detection may aid point-of-care pathogen detection, genotyping, and disease monitoring. We combine the RNA- targeting CRISPR effector Cas13 with...
DATE: April 2, 2019TIME: 3:00pm CEST Dans ce webinaire, Marie Piketty rappelle que depuis quelques années, plusieurs cas d'interférences provoquées par l...
Prodrugs are harmless in their native state, as they are not targeted by human enzymes. But they can be converted into highly toxic compounds (the “drug”) by viral or bacterial en...
There have been an increasing number of successful human gene therapy clinical trials, and in particular gene delivery vehicles or vectors based on the adeno-associated virus (AAV) have enabl...
Machine learning approaches to pattern discovery in protein-protein interaction networks of Huntington’s disease brain and model organisms are revealing novel connections of the disease...
DATE: January 25, 2018TIME: 10:00am PST, 1:00pm EST, 6:00pm GMTOncolytic virotherapy, the use of viral vectors to treat cancer, holds huge promise. Viruses are natural DNA delivery vehi...
DATE: October 19, 2017TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT Recent FDA approval of the first Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy offers cancer patients more promise than...
In the last years, progress has been made regarding the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into neural stem cells and astrocytes, growing into neurospheres and cerebral organoids...
DATE: November 17, 2016
TIME: 8:30am PT, 11:30am ET
The complex interactions between transcription, translation, and post-translational modifications are hidden from view in typ...
The HIV and AIDS pandemic ranks among the most devastating in recorded history. Substantial research efforts over the past 30 years have led to novel discoveries with respect to the vir...
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