For Virology Chapter 1: Introduction IFITM3 restricts the morbidity and mortality associated with influenza Chapter 2: General properties A comprehensive and quantitative exploration of thousands of viral genomes Unbiased strain-typing of arbovirus directly from mosquitoes using nanopore sequencing Uncovering Earth's virome Simplifying virus classification: The Baltimore system Chapter 3: Viral replication/genetics Temporal dynamics of host molecular … Continue reading Virology – Additional Reading

I found that the blog post about plasmids that I had outlined in my head had been written already on a website called Addgene.  The beginning of the Addgene post echoes many of the points that I made in the "Why work with Escherichia coli (E. coli)?" post. Image: Escherichia coli - scanning electron micrograph from … Continue reading Plasmid basics