Pneumoviruses are responsible for significant respiratory disease in their hosts and represent a major problemfor human and animal health. Pneumoviruses are members of the family Paramyxoviridae, subfamilyPneumovirinae and the virus particles consist of a negative-sense, nonsegmented RNA genome within a helical nucleocapsid structure enveloped in a lipid membrane derived from the ho...

The pursuit of human biochemical genetics has allowed us to understand better how the person with the (genetic) disease differs from the disease the person has and to develop the concept that genetics belongs in all aspects of health care. It is a perspective that comes quite readily to the clinician-scientist, and the restoration of that "species" in the era of functional genomics is strongly ...

Constantin (Costas) Drainas, Professor of Biochemical Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece (January 19, 1950) passed away untimely the past July 5, 2011. Costas obtained his BA degree in Biology from the University of Patras on 1972 and his PhD degree in Biochemical Genetics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland on 1978. After four yea...