SFTSV viral RNARNA is detected by real-time RT-PCR and by antibody detection with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in blood sera. RNA detection by RT-PCR is mainly used to confirm SFTSV during surveillance. The SFTSV RNA detection rate was shown to be higher than that of IgM antibody in samples collected within two weeks after onset in a study using specimens that included suspected SFTS cases or clinically diagnosed SFTS cases. The RNA detection rate was 48.9% and was best for earlier onset (less than or equal to 7 days). The detection rate using SFTSV-specific IgM antibody was 30.5% and showed an increasing trend with samples collected at later onset.
RNA sequencing is replacing gene expression arrays to analyse the spectrum and abundance of transcripts in a given cell or tissue type at a given time. The technique called RNA-Seq, also known as whole transcriptome shotgun sequencingshotgun sequencing generates cDNA and uses it in next-generation sequencing.
The HCA is led by Aviv Regev at the Broad Institute (MIT and Harvard) and Sarah TeichmannSarah Teichmann at UK Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Regev launched Celsius Therapeutics in spring 2018 to help her research findings move more quickly to drug development for cancer and autoimmune disease. The HCA meeting in San Francisco in Autumn 2018 was sponsored by the biomedical research center, Chan Zuckerberg BioHub. BioHub’s co-president Stephen Quake is an HCA organizer.
The HCA is led by Aviv Regev at the Broad Institute (MIT and Harvard) and Sarah Teichmann at UK Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Regev launched Celsius Therapeutics in spring 2018 to help her research findings move more quickly to drug development for cancer and autoimmune disease. The HCA meeting in San FranciscoSan Francisco in Autumn 2018 was sponsored by the biomedical research center, Chan Zuckerberg BioHub. BioHub’s co-president Stephen Quake is an HCA organizer.
The libcurl library is portable. It builds and works identically on many platforms, including AIX, AmigaOS, Android, BeOS, BlackBerry Tablet OS and BlackBerry 10, OpenVMS, Darwin, DOS, FreeBSD, HP-UX, HURD, iOS, IRIX, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, NetWare, OpenBSD, OS/2, QNX Neutrino, RISC OS, Solaris, Symbian, Tru64, Ultrix, UnixWare, and Windows. The libcurl library is free, thread-safe and IPv6 compatible. Bindings are available for more than 40 languages, including C/C++, Java, PHP and PythonPython. The libcurl library can support axTLS, GnuTLS, mbed TLS, NSS, QSOSSL on IBM i, SChannel on Windows, Secure Transport on macOS and iOS, SSL/TLS through OpenSSL, and wolfSSL.
On March 20th, 2018, the German company Bayer and its crop science division announced they will be starting a new company called Joyn Bio company Bayer and its crop science division announced they will be starting a new company called Joyn Bio . Joyn Bio will focus on designing plants that make their own nitrogen fertilizer. If successful, they will create sustainable and economically feasible nitrogen fertilizer producing plants and crops. Nitrogen fertilization of soil is responsible for both a major increase in global agricultural productivity and a substantial environmental damage through toxic nitrogen run off that pollutes waterways. Plants that are able to produce their own nitrogen when they need it, will drastically reduce pollution, improve crop productivity, and reduce cost of food production.
Ken Mulvany, Brent Gutekunst, Ivan Griffin and Michael Brennan founded Stratified Medicine in November 13, 2013 in London, BritainBritain, United Kingdom. The company changed its name to BenevolentAI in Sepetember 2016. It has offices in Cambridge, Belgium and New York.
BioBriocks Free Genes project is an open biotechnology commons for useful DNADNA sequences. Free Genes uses the open MTA to make all sequences available within the Free Genes project free for anyone to use and/or modify. Anyone can send DNA sequences to the BioBricks Foundation for inclusion into the Free Genes project. The BioBricks Foundation will prepare, clone, review, synthesize, and distribute submitted DNA sequences upon request. The projects removes all type IIS restriction sites from DNA sequences and uses the GoldenGate modular cloning (MoClo) assembly standard. The Free Gene Project has over 10,000 genes ready for use by academics, non-profits, companies, and DIY biotechnologists.