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h4[data-toggle="collapse"] img { height: 33px; transition: .33s; } h4[data-toggle="collapse"]:not(.collapsed) img { transform: scaleY(-1); } Donate now — we need your support When you live in San Diego and other coastal communities, the beauty and many benefits of the ocean are a daily part of our lives. Although our oceans have proven somewhat resilient to many threats, their ability to bounce back cannot be taken for granted. Increasing temperatures,...
Past encounters with the flu shape vaccine response
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER New research on why the influenza vaccine was only modestly effective in recent years shows that immune history with the flu influences a person's response to the vaccine. Low effectiveness of the flu vaccine is often blamed on problems with how the vaccine is designed and produced. Sometimes the flu strains chosen for the vaccine are a poor match for those that end up circulating in the public, especially in years when the H3N2 strain...
Genomics-Based Vaccine Could Prevent Deadly Cattle Disease
February 13, 2006 Every year, East Coast fever destroys the small farmer's dream of escaping poverty in Africa. Killing more than a million cattle and costing some $200 million annually, this tick-borne disease rages across a dozen countries in eastern and central Africa. Now, an international team of scientists has taken the first major step toward a vaccine to prevent East Coast fever. Their work, published in the February 13-17 early online edition of the Proceedings of the National...
The Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases
The JCVI has been a consortium member of the Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Disease (CSGID) sponsored by the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) since 2007. The Center's mission is to solve the three-dimensional structure of proteins from pathogens in the NIAID Category A-C priority lists and organisms causing emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. The targeted proteins are those with an important biological role or potential targets for...
Bringing cells to life … and to Minecraft: $30 million NSF grant to support whole-cell modeling at the Beckman Institute
Researchers, policymakers, and Minecraft players can look forward to the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology’s newest research center. By Jenna Kurtzweil Supported by a $30 million U.S. National Science Foundation grant announced today, the NSF Science and Technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology will create whole-cell models to transform our understanding of how cells function. With cutting-edge imaging and simulation tools, the center will advance the...
Coxiella Burnetii and Rickettsiella Grylli Genome Project
Goals The goal of this project is to generate complete genome sequence data from four Coxiella burnetii isolates and Rickettsiella grylli in order to define variations in strains that are responsible for differences in virulence and host range. Additionally, comparative genomics of a newly-discovered Coxiella sp. of ticks and Coxiella burnetii will be done. The goals of the comparative genomics project are to characterize a core set of proteins for Coxiella spp. and to identify...