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Rapid Evolution

For Introduction to Evolution In chapter 6 of The Tangled Bank by Carl Zimmer, we learned that there is a simple equation to describe the rate of evolutionary change: Rate…

Monkeys Carry Astroviruses of “Other Animals”

Submitted by Sydney Jennings This paper is a summary of the article, Non-Human Primates Harbor Diverse Mammalian and Avian Astroviruses Including Those Associated with Human Infections. The purpose of this…

Protecting Picornavirus Genomes from RNAse Degradation within Endosomes

1 Oct 20181 Oct 2018

Submitted by Winter Kemppainen The research article, Picornavirus RNA is protected from cleavage by ribonuclease during virion uncoating and transfer across cellular and model membranes,1 outlines the results from a…

Vesicle-Cloaked Noroviruses

1 Oct 20181 Oct 2018

Submitted by Lyndsi Leprowse The topic of this discussion are Caliciviruses, and this discussion goes into specific detail about that of a certain member of the Caliciviridae family, called Norovirus.…

Dating Older Humans

For Introduction to Evolution - Chapter 3 Amazon Review In chapter 2, we learned about a few important historical figures that contributed to the pre-Darwin field of evolution. William Smith's "map…

Chapter 1 Student Questions

For Virology Did having bacteria and air-borne contamination with cultures of viruses skew results? Were they trying to correlate a grown virus with a certain illness, and did contamination ever…

Fit to Fight the Flu

Influenza virus, the causative agent of flu, has a genome composed of segmented, single-stranded, negative sense RNA. This combination leads to challenges for your immune system because this virus can…

Eight Independent Lines of Evidence for Evolution

For Introduction to Evolution We will be reading The Tangled Bank by Carl Zimmer this semester as we are introduced to evolution. Chapter 1 of that book brings up the…