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    Viral vectors are modified viruses designed to deliver genetic material into cells. This process can be performed inside an organism or in cell culture...
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    A viral vector vaccine is a vaccine that uses a viral vector to deliver genetic material (DNA) that can be transcribed by the recipient's host cells as...
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    divided into two categories, recombinant viruses and synthetic vectors (viral and non-viral). In complex multicellular eukaryotes (more specifically Weissmanists)...
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  • and/or expressed. A vector containing foreign DNA is termed recombinant DNA. The four major types of vectors are plasmids, viral vectors, cosmids, and artificial...
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  • different host species Viral vector, a tool commonly used by molecular biologists to deliver genetic materials into cells Vector, a one-dimensional array...
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  • helper dependent virus, also termed a gutless virus, is a synthetic viral vector dependent on the assistance of a helper virus in order to replicate,...
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    which foreign DNA is introduced into a cell by a virus or viral vector. An example is the viral transfer of DNA from one bacterium to another and hence...
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    In epidemiology, a disease vector is any living agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen such as a parasite or microbe, to another living...
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    is the sample injection of viral vectors containing transgenes into the patient. Lentiviruses are modified to act as a vector to insert beneficial genes...
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    Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration. In most cases, symptoms include fever, chills, loss of appetite, nausea, muscle pains—particularly...
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    Virus (redirect from Antibodies, viral)
    antibodies. Industrial processes have been recently developed using viral vectors and several pharmaceutical proteins are currently in pre-clinical and...
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    transfection using a viral vector. Viral transformation can occur both naturally and medically. Natural transformations can include viral cancers, such as...
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    (sometimes called biological nanoparticles or viral vectors) and those that use naked DNA or DNA complexes (non-viral methods). All viruses bind to their hosts...
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    expression vector, otherwise known as an expression construct, is usually a plasmid or virus designed for gene expression in cells. The vector is used to...
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    reduces the effectiveness to repeated treatments. Problems with viral vectorsViral vectors carry the risks of toxicity, inflammatory responses, and gene...
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  • bacteriophages. The surface of the viral particle can also be modified with ligands to increase targeting capabilities. While viral vectors can be used to great efficacy...
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    (31 January 2017). "Rewiring carotenoid biosynthesis in plants using a viral vector". Scientific Reports. 7: 41645. Bibcode:2017NatSR...741645M. doi:10.1038/srep41645...
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    Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) are a diverse group of animal and human illnesses. VHFs may be caused by five distinct families of RNA viruses: the families...
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    A viral disease (or viral infection) occurs when an organism's body is invaded by pathogenic viruses, and infectious virus particles (virions) attach...
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  • Virotherapy (redirect from Viral therapy)
    branches of virotherapy: anti-cancer oncolytic viruses, viral vectors for gene therapy and viral immunotherapy. These branches use three different types...
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  • number of viral plaques are counted and can be used to calculate the total number of infectious viral particles in the library. Most viral vectors also carry...
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    A cloning vector is a small piece of DNA that can be stably maintained in an organism, and into which a foreign DNA fragment can be inserted for cloning...
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  • Viral pneumonia is a pneumonia caused by a virus. Pneumonia is an infection that causes inflammation in one or both of the lungs. The pulmonary alveoli...
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    Vasilakis; Marc Lecuit (2018). "Zika, Chikungunya, and Other Emerging Vector-Borne Viral Diseases". Annual Review of Medicine. 69: 395–408. doi:10...
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    Plasmid (redirect from Plasmid vector)
    following delivery of a scaffold/matrix attachment region containing non-viral vector". Gene Therapy. 15 (24): 1593–1605. doi:10.1038/gt.2008.113. PMID 18633447...
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    endogenised viral elements of Flaviviruses and contemporary flaviviruses using maximum likelihood approaches have identified that arthropod-vectored flaviviruses...
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    West Nile fever (category Arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral haemorrhagic fevers)
    neuroinvasive manifestation of WNND. WNE presents with similar symptoms to other viral encephalitis with fever, headaches, and altered mental status. A prominent...
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    of the viral genes have been modified to remove some viral genes. One such modification is the gutless vector that removes almost all the viral genome...
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  • (ICVCN) to mandate a binomial format (genus|| ||species) for naming new viral species similar to that used for cellular organisms; the names of species...
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    is typically accomplished by delivery of plasmids or through viral or bacterial vectors. shRNA is an advantageous mediator of RNAi in that it has a relatively...
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