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- Diving into the proteomic atlas of SARS-CoV-2 infected cells March 28, 2024
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- Mutations in the efflux pump regulator MexZ shift tissue colonization by Pseudomonas aeruginosa to a state of antibiotic tolerance March 22, 2024
- Drug-resistant tuberculosis: a persistent global health concern March 22, 2024
- Emergence and clonal expansion of a qacA-harbouring sequence type 45 lineage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus March 21, 2024
- Evaluation of synergistic/antagonistic antibacterial activities of fatty oils from apricot, date, grape, and black seeds March 19, 2024
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Daily Archives: January 10, 2018
Visualizing Genomic Data
Contributed by Dr. DJ Bandoy, DVM Next-generation sequencing opened the floodgates of biological information. However, the torrential amount of data that is now becoming the challenge itself from data storage to analytical tools. This gap is now more pronounced with … Continue reading
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The stinky microbiome of stinky tofu
Contributed by Poyin Chen Having just returned home from a two week trip to Taiwan, my mind is still on all of the delicious Taiwanese food I am now suddenly deprived of—particularly stinky tofu. And what better way to ease … Continue reading
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Congratulations Narine Arabyan, PhD
Narine Arabyan finished her PhD in the Weimer Micro Lab in October 2017! She will be moving to a fantastic position as a Post-doctoral NIH Fellowship – National Biosafety and Biocontainment Training Program (NBBTP) Fellow in January 2018. Narine’s dissertation was titled, … Continue reading
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UC San Diego Earth Microbiome Project with 27,000 samples
Contributed by Nguyet Kong The Earth Microbiome have collected more than 27,000 samples from all around the world. They have analyzed the microbes and microbiomes and recently published a paper in Nature. The director for the Center for Microbiome Innovation, … Continue reading
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Thinking beyond library construction
Contributed by Carol Huang We have recently introduced a newer version of the Nanopore sequencing device, MinION MK 1B into the laboratory. It’s a portable, real-time sequencing device. The Nanopore MinION sequencing platform has great advanced features. Upon reach objectives, … Continue reading
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CLC Genomics Workbench as a Tool Next Generation Sequencing Data
Contributed by Nguyet Kong CLC Genomics Workbench was designed to assist with many different Next Generation Sequencing bioinformatics applications from RNAseq, Transcriptomics, Metagenomics, Epigenomics and de novo assembly. The CLC Genomics Workbench is a user-friendly software that is easily used by … Continue reading
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Where are the receptors?
Contributed by Poyin Chen The first step in bacterial interaction with host cells is host recognition, followed by host adhesion. All of these initial interactions take place at the host cell surface; however, we have only scratched the surface of … Continue reading
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A new class of antimicrobial found in human mother’s milk
Contributed by Nguyet Kong A study from Vanderbilt University found that mothers milk doesn’t just give babies nutrients, but the sugars help protects them from bacterial infections, making this a new class of antimicrobial. Mother’s milk is consisting of different … Continue reading
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