Computational Simulation of Studying Zika Virus: from Macroscale to Nanoscale

Zika Virus Infection after Returning from Thailand

A Comprehensive Systems Biology Approach to Studying Zika Virus

Zika virus (ZIKV) is responsible for an ongoing and intensifying epidemic in the Western Hemisphere. We examined the complete predicted proteomes, glycomes, and selectomes of 33 ZIKV strains representing temporally diverse members of the African lineage, the Asian lineage, and the current outbreak in the Americas. Derivation of the complete selectome is an 'omics' approach to identify distinct ...

Skeleton of Euplectella sp.: structural hierarchy from the nanoscale to the macroscale.

Structural materials in nature exhibit remarkable designs with building blocks, often hierarchically arranged from the nanometer to the macroscopic length scales. We report on the structural properties of biosilica observed in the hexactinellid sponge Euplectella sp. Consolidated, nanometer-scaled silica spheres are arranged in well-defined microscopic concentric rings glued together by organic...

Combining nanoscale manipulation with macroscale relocation of single quantum dots

We have controllably positioned, with nanometre precision, single CdSe quantum dots referenced to a registration template such that the location of a given nanoparticle on a macroscopic (≈1 cm(2)) sample surface can be repeatedly revisited. The atomically flat sapphire substrate we use is particularly suited to optical measurements of the isolated quantum dots, enabling combined manipulation-sp...

Zika virus isolation from semen.

Zika virus (ZIKV) can be sexually transmitted and replicative particles were first detected in a semen sample from a patient during the 2013-14 French Polynesia outbreak. Here we describe the virus isolation from semen of a patient returning to Italy from Brazil.