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John Brooksby was an outstanding Scottish veterinary virologist who worked at the Pirbright Institute (Pirbright) for 40 years, including 16 as the institute's director. He devised quantitative methods for measuring neutralising antibodies and perfected a complement fixation test for the diagnosis, typing and strain differentiation of foot and mouth disease (FMD), especially when combined with neutralisation. He identified four of the seven types of FMD virus (FMDV) and many subtypes.
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November 2024
Department of Molecular Genetics, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada.
Motivation: Protein-protein interactions are essential for a variety of biological phenomena including mediating biochemical reactions, cell signaling, and the immune response. Proteins seek to form interfaces which reduce overall system energy. Although determination of single polypeptide chain protein structures has been revolutionized by deep learning techniques, complex prediction has still not been perfected.
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November 2024
Biocenter, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55128, Mainz, Germany; Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), 55128 Mainz, Germany. Electronic address:
Following decades of innovation and perfecting, genetic code expansion has become a powerful tool for in vivo protein modification. Some of the major hurdles that had to be overcome include suboptimal performance of GCE-specific translational components in host systems, competing cellular processes, unspecific modification of the host proteome and limited availability of codons for reassignment. Although strategies have been developed to overcome these challenges, there is critical need for further advances.
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September 2024
Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Huanhu Xi Road, Hexi District, Tianjin, 300060, China.
Murine cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells are heterologous cells that kill various allogeneic and isogenic tumors and have functional and phenotypic characteristics of natural killer cells and T lymphocytes. However, the effect of CIK cells alone on solid tumor therapy is only limited. To enhance the therapeutic effect, it is vital to discover a mix of several therapy approaches.
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December 2023
Department of Oncology, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Portsmouth, UK.
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