In this video, Dr Marta Gabryelska and her daughter Kalina are chatting about the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus, infection symptoms and vaccinations. They are testing whether masks really help prevent the spread of the virus. In a fun and easy way, Marta answers all of Kalina’s questions and concerns.
Dr. Adarsh Dharan, Research Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago, USA delivered an exciting talk titled; ‘Understanding HIV- 1 Nuclear Import’. He discussed the cytoplasmic trafficking and nuclear import of HIV-1 genomes during infection and several other factors associated with their entries into the nucleus by showing these nuclear import kinetics during infection in a number of cell lines.
He further explained that, unlike other previous studies, reverse transcription is not a process that is completed in the cytoplasm but still an ongoing process once the nuclear import is even done. He presented his study confirming the presence of assembled capsids inside the nucleus and also the functional role of these capsids there.
We now have vaccines against the pandemic COVID-19 disease. Unfortunately, many people around the world are worried by this. Generally, vaccines contain tiny fragments of the disease-causing organism or the blueprints for making the tiny fragments.
Vaccines also contain ingredients that keep the vaccine safe and effective. These ingredients are present in many other vaccines and have been used for decades. Each vaccine component serves a specific purpose, and each ingredient is tested in the manufacturing process. All ingredients are tested for safety. Watch this video to learn more!
Do you know what happens in your body after a vaccination? None of the authorized and recommended COVID-19 vaccines contain the live virus that causes COVID-19. Therefore, they can’t actually make you sick. Vaccines teach our immune systems how to recognize and fight viruses. Sometimes, this process can cause symptoms, but these are normal and are signs that the body is building protection against the virus.
Many people ask about the safety of the Covid-19 vaccine because it was developed and approved in such a short time. Vaccine development usually takes decades, so having approved vaccines available for large-scale distribution before the end of 2020 was surprising.
However, new manufacturing platforms, structure-based antigen design, computational biology, protein engineering, and gene synthesis have provided the tools to now make vaccines with speed, safety, and precision. Watch this video to learn more about vaccine development and ease your worry about the new vaccines.
COVID-19 is a disease caused by the coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. This video will show how the virus is transmitted, what are the symptoms of COVID-19, how the virus enters the body, and how our body responds to it. We will also look at what happens in the case of severe COVID-19 and why it is so dangerous. Lastly, you will learn more about what you can do to prevent this disease.
Men and Women suffer differently from infections with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In this video, we will look at the biological reasons for the gender differences of the Covid19 disease by better understanding how this virus works and how different our bodies are.
The structural flexibility of RNA underlies fundamental biological processes, but there were no methods to explore the multiple conformations adopted by RNAs in vivo. We developed cross-linking of matched RNAs and deep sequencing (COMRADES) for in-depth RNA conformation capture, and a pipeline for the retrieval of RNA structural ensembles.
Using COMRADES, we determined the architecture of the Zika virus RNA genome inside cells and identified multiple site-specific interactions with human noncoding RNAs.
The zika virus genome is a single-stranded RNA molecule. Not much was known about its structure. A collaborative initiative between two Universities in the United Kingdom solved this riddle and developed a method to explore multiple conformations adopted by RNAs in vivo in virus-infected cells. Just like a person can fold their body into multiple yoga positions, the Zika virus genome can do similar. Watch this video to learn how!
What has a virus in common with a kinder surprise egg? Surprisingly, a lot! Watch this video to learn how scientists can look into viruses and study their insides. In this video, you will learn about virions, capsids, and genomes. You might also get hungry!
