Bill Sullivan receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. I am a microbiologist, and my lab studies Toxoplasma. This new study bolsters emerging findings that underscore the ...

In 2008, Kurt started to experience things that hadn't bothered him before: dry skin, fatigue, irregular bowel movements and a white coating that formed over his tongue. For years, he saw both ...

In 1944, Stanley described in detail the preparation and properties of influenza virus vaccine produced in embryonated hen eggs, concentrated and purified by differential centrifugation and ...

Predicting the effects of missense variants is important in discovering disease risk genes and clinical genetic diagnostics. Here the authors introduce a deep learning method (MisFit) to estimate ...

including the human conceptus, zygote, morula, blastocyst, embryo, and fetus; and that conception is defined as the fertilization of the ovum of a female by a sperm of a male.” ...

Ascaris lumbricoides infections, as with other gastrointestinal helminthic infections, are characterized by eosinophilia, mast cell hyperplasia and elevated levels of circulating IgE. In endemic areas ...

Influenza virions can take a variety of shapes, from the classic spherical or kidney bean morphology found in most lab-adapted strains to much longer filamentous forms that can reach over 20 nm in ...

and B/Shandong/7/97 were incubated within the allantoic cavity of embryonated eggs, 10 days old, in an environment maintained at 37 °C and 50% humidity. Each egg was inoculated with 100–1000 plaque ...