Slow-growing rotavirus mutant reveals early steps of viral assembly
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
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
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
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Video of the Month: A calcium storm
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
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
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
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
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
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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Type of injury matters, when healing the small intestine
New insights into how the small intestine, one of the fastest renewing tissues in the human body, repairs itself are prompting the re-evaluation of the
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