Translating knowledge of genetic disease mechanisms into gene therapies has been slow with limited clinical success. One major reason is that the transfer vectors, which are most often of viral origin ...

A new variation of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system makes it easier to re-engineer massive quantities of cells for therapeutic applications. The approach, developed at Gladstone Institutes and UC ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 114, No. 34 (August 22, 2017), pp. 9068-9073 (6 pages) The baculovirus–insect cell system (BICS) has been widely ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers proposed rotavirus (RV)-based vaccine vectors with the potential for developing polyvalent vaccines targeting multiple enteric ...

The Department of Physics and Engineering Physics offers major programs of lecture and laboratory instruction leading to the bachelor of science in physics and the bachelor of science in engineering ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Vaccinia virus (VACV) confers cross-protective immunity against the variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, and has therefore been ...