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Sarah Muncy

EBSCOhost: What Makes Each Brain Unique - 0 views

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      Can a virus hi-jack this system to get the cell to do reverse transcription?
  • because it, unlike other mobile elements in humans, encodes its own machinery for spreading copies of itself far and wide in the cellular genome.
  • it first transcribes itself into single-stranded RNA, which then travels from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, where it serves as a template for constructing proteins specified by some parts of the L1 DNA
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • Such reverse transcription
Casey Finnerty

HHMI's BioInteractive - Infectious Diseases Lecture Series - 2 views

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    This page has links to all the HHMI Holiday Lectures on infectious disease topics.Currently these include: "2000 and Beyond: Confronting the Microbe Menace", "AIDS: Evolution of an Epidemic", and "Viral Outbreak: The Science of Emerging Disease".
Casey Finnerty

New Infection, Not Relapse, Brings Back Symptoms of Lyme Disease, Study Finds - NYTimes... - 4 views

  • a new study finds that repeat symptoms are from new infections, not from relapses.
    • Sarah Muncy
       
      But why are the patient so susceptible to getting the infections over and over again?
  • Dr. Steere acknowledged that symptoms, sometimes disabling ones, do linger for months after treatment in as many as 10 percent of patients. Doctors do not know why. But, Dr. Steere said, “antibiotics are not the answer.”
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    Great question! I was wondering the same thing. I think the answer is actually in Chap. 6 of Cann! (Toward the end. Ask me again if you are unsure.) It's all in that little book, isn't it?!!!
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