ABSTRACT As obligate intracellular parasites, viruses are completely dependent on host factors for replication.Assembly and egress of complex virus particles, such as human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), are likely to require many host factors.Despite this, relatively few have been identified and characterized.This study describes a novel high-throughput,
ABSTRACT Human health is threatened by bacterial infections that are increasingly resistant to multiple drugs.A recently emerged strategy consists of disarming pathogenic bacteria by targeting and blocking their virulence factors.The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a widespread secretion nanomachine encoded and employed by pathogenic strains to
Understanding the corneal mechanical properties has great importance in the study of corneal pathologies and the prediction of refractive surgery outcomes.Non-Contact Tonometry (NCT) is a non-invasive diagnostic tool intended to characterize the corneal tissue response in vivo by applying a defined air-pulse.The biomarkers inferred from this test c
Spectral imaging is performed primarily using reflective devices, but for transparent Wheel Stopper Seat objects, especially transparent liquids, a transmission-based device is required to obtain more effective spectral imaging data.For this purpose, a transmitted spectral imaging data acquisition device based on a miniature multispectral spectrome