This paper describes plant-based high-level expression of virus-like particles of BTV serotype 8. The post BTV VLPs, OMG appeared first on MicrobiologyBytes.

Djinn Haunted, they say, believing the soft, shifty dunes are made up of false promises. Many believe whatever happens is the other half of a conversation. Many whisper white lies to the dead. “The boys are doing really well.” Some...

I couldn’t resist taking this photo in the office of Edinburgh mathematician Nikola Popovic. The central image is the result of a conversation between Nikola and visiting speaker Vahid Shahrezaei about the reproduction of yeast. Yeast cells normally reproduce asexually by budding, but cells of opposite mating types (a and α) can also reproduce sexually. […]

After two days of travelling to the west coast and back, I’m glad to be back to my blog (and, of course, my coffee machine, which is the real source of my ability to blog every morning without distraction: it makes coffee at the push of a button, and that coffee has a delicious amount […]

After a series of false dawns, the world's first commercial wave farm is to open soon. Will this be a fresh start for the technology?