Viral evilution in the lab-- 'Evolution before our eyes'
Category: Evolution
We *watch* evolution in the lab. Its like a 2 week long TV show.
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I'm a graduate student studying the molecular and biochemical evolution of HIV within patients and within populations. I also study epigenetic control of ERVs.
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Darwinathon: 12 hours of pure, unadulterated EVILUTION!
Category: Evolution
12 hours of Evilution education at the University of Oklahoma!
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Evolution, randomness, and neurodegenerative diseases
Category: Evolution
Hey, remember a while back when I mentioned how scientists used evolution (random mutation and natural selection) in the lab to 'perfect' gene therapy vectors? Theyve just one it again! In a BIG way! Molecular Evolution of Adeno-associated Virus for...
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Evilution: Its always going to be smarter than you. Always.
Category: Evolution
I read a nice review article on viral evilution this weekend that really highlighted, for me, how clueless Creationists (especially Intelligent Design Creationists) are about evilution. Antiviral resistance and impact on viral replication capacity: evolution of viruses under antiviral pressure...
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Timetree of Life
Category: Evolution
FUUUUUN! TimeTree is a public knowledge-base for information on the evolutionary timescale of life. A search utility allows exploration of the thousands of divergence times among organisms in the published literature. A tree-based (hierarchical) system is used to identify all...
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IDiots, the Tree of Life, and phylogenetic trees
Category: Evolution
DIFRENT JEANS MAEK DIFRENT TREAHS TEHEREFORE JESUS!!! DIRP!
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Building a better polio vaccine: Revisited
Category: Evolution
Last year I wrote about a cool paper, arguing for the creation of a new polio vaccine. Briefly, polio is an RNA virus, thus has an error-prone RNA-RNA polymerase, thus acts like a quasispecies like HIV-1. Now, a live attenuated...
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Lentiviruses: Me, and you, and Zaboomafoo Part Two!
Category: Evolution
How to tell the difference between independent ERV insertions, and common descent
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Ten Five reasons clumsy excuses to exclude viruses from the tree of life
Category: Evolution
Do you like pie? Are viruses alive?
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Got a problem? Let evilution solve it for you.
Category: Evolution
Say youve got a problem. Maybe you cant figure out how to make a gene therapy vector that cant be detected by pre-existing antibodies that everybody already has. Maybe you are trying to figure out how to make an effective...
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