"In the future, the insights gained from this work could lead to the development of much-needed novel ways." Researchers unveil findings that could help in the fight against rapidly spreading disease: ...

This project builds on recent work reporting tick transmission of relapsing fever spirochetes and genome sequencing of both the pathogen and tick vector. We have utilized both next generation and ...

Then they transform the plasmids into a bacterial vector and infect it with a helper phage that supplies the other necessary viral proteins. This generates the phage library, where each virion ...

Whether it is prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates in Nazi Germany, blacks in the southern U.S.A. (a syphilis study), an unsuspecting public in New York City and San Francisco (bacterial ...

Inactivated virus, viral vector, bacterial vector, subunit and DNA vaccines encoding several antigens have been developed and shown to be immunogenic. Vaccine trials in animal models that mimic ...

Bacteria can also transfer plasmids to one another ... Researchers can insert DNA fragments or genes into a plasmid vector, creating a so-called recombinant plasmid. This plasmid can be introduced ...