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Using intercellular calcium waves, rotavirus amplifies its ability to cause disease beyond the cells it directly infects.

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Slow-growing rotavirus mutant reveals early steps of viral assembly

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020lipid droplets, NSP2, phosphomimetics, Research, rotavirus, viroplasm

Rotavirus is responsible for more than 130,000 deaths annually in infants and children younger than five years. The virus causes severe, dehydrating diarrhea as it

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Mystery solved, rotavirus VP3 is a unique capping machine

April 23, 2020April 23, 2020mRNA capping, Research, rotavirus, VP3

After eluding researchers for more than 30 years, the VP3 protein of rotavirus has finally revealed its unique structure and function to a team led

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‘Give me the calcium!’ Tulane virus takes over cellular calcium signaling to replicate

November 12, 2019November 13, 2019gastrointestinal virus, human norovirus, NS1-2, Research, rotavirus, Tulane virus, viroporin

Some gastrointestinal viruses need calcium. They need calcium ions to carry out several essential aspects of viral life, such as entry into host cells, genome

Still image to accompany July 2019's Video of the Month (Hyser lab) Cells expressing a fluorescent calcium sensor (green) were infected with rotavirus, a virus that causes acute gastroenteritis. The rotavirus-infected cells (pink) trigger an intercellular calcium wave that increases calcium in surrounding uninfected cells. (Scale bar = 100 μm; courtesy of the Hyser lab).

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Video of the Month: A calcium storm

July 2, 2019July 24, 2019calcium indicator, gastroenteritis, Research, rotavirus, video

From the Labs opens July 2019 with a Video of the Month, showing the calcium ‘storm’ rotavirus triggers in infected cells. Calcium signaling in rotavirus

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‘Can you hear me, now?’ A new strategy ‘raises the volume’ of hard-to-detect gut-body communication

June 27, 2019June 27, 2019enteroendocrine cells, enteroids, gut-body communication, microbiome, neurogenin-3, Norovirus, Research, rotavirus, serotonin

Throughout the gastrointestinal tract there are specialized hormone-producing cells called enteroendocrine cells and, although they comprise only a small population of the total cells, they

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Image of the Month: Assembling a rotavirus factory

January 3, 2019January 3, 2019CK1 alpha, NSP2, phsophorylation, Research, rotavirus, rotavirus factory

Making new viruses requires assembling intracellular replication factories via a complex, little known process that involves both viral and cellular components. New insights into this

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Baylor College of Medicine faculty members elected fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

December 18, 2018December 18, 2018Alzheimer's, Cancer, NAI, National Academy of Inventors, Norovirus, Research, Rett Syndrome, rotavirus

Drs. Mary K. Estes, Bert O’Malley and Huda Zoghbi of Baylor College of Medicine were three of the 148 renowned academic inventors named fellows of

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Most viewed images of 2018

December 4, 2018December 4, 2018heart. retina. ovarian cancer, Image of the month, mosquito, Research, rotavirus, space

Our last post of the Image of the Month of 2018 celebrates the most viewed images of the year. Click on the titles below the

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Sugars in mother’s milk influence neonatal rotavirus infection

November 29, 2018December 13, 2018breast milk, Research, rotavirus, rotavirus infection in neonates, rotavirus vaccine

Lea este artículo en español. Rotavirus infection causes diarrhea and vomiting primarily in children younger than 5, with the exception of babies younger than 28 days

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