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Drug resistance, the M2 protein, and the story of influenza infections.
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BLASTing through the flu: activity 5, how similar is similar?
Category: Influenza resources
How similar are the 2009 H1N1 flu sequences to each other?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 4:23 PM • 9 Comments •
Open science, peer review and the flu
Category: Bioinformatics
Doing science as a community
Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:00 PM • 4 Comments •
It's a new flu season: do you cough safely?
Category: Science education
Do you cough safely?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 6:03 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Did the California H1N1 swine flu come from Ohio?
Category: Bioinformatics
It looks like the California flu strains may have come from Ohio
Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:01 PM • 66 Comments •
Injection, Collection, and Sex
Category: DIY biology
Bacteria and viruses creating new life forms in the wild.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 7:40 AM • 0 Comments •
Jake's HIV videos
Category: HIV/AIDS
Movies of HIV
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:50 PM • 0 Comments •
Checking out the new Ebola virus and playing some tricks with BLAST
Category: Bioinformatics
Ebola virus has impressed me as creepy ever since I read "The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story some years back by Richard Preston. (I guess he has a new...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:30 AM • 6 Comments •
Weekend fun: Build your own virus!
Category: classroom activities
If you're going to create a new life form (even if it's only digital), Sunday Saturday seems like the best day to give it a try. Reposted from an earlier...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:17 AM • 4 Comments •
Fun with molecular structures: it looks like a holiday wreath...
Category: molecular structures
but the red berries are RNA. Picture below the fold....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:21 PM • 7 Comments •
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