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...

Kun Guo, Daniel J. Hassett, and Tingyue Gu National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People’s Republic of China Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Ohio U...

This paper introduces the notion that analogies other than Darwinian evolution may be used as the bases for useful designing processes. Two classes of analogies are described: those drawn from genetics and those drawn from developmental biology. Two extensions to the genetic analogy are described. The first utilises concepts from genetic engineering, which is the human intervention in natural g...

1 Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Vojvode Stepe 444A, 11010 Belgrade, Serbia 2Drug Discovery Unit, Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, IFOM-IEO Campus, Via Adamello 16, 20139 Milan, Italy 3 Growth Control and Cancer Metastasis Laboratory, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB...

Computational Science and Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland (G.T., P.K.); Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology (H.M.M., A.H.K.R.), Genetics, Genomics, and Development Program (H.M.M., A.H.K.R), and School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Section of Plant Biology (A.H.K.R), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853; and Department of Comparative Development an...

| Next-generation DNA sequencing has revealed the complete genome sequences of numerous organisms, establishing a fundamental and growing understanding of genetic variation and phenotypic diversity. Engineering at the gene, network and whole-genome scale aims to introduce targeted genetic changes both to explore emergent phenotypes and to introduce new functionalities. Expansion of these approa...

This paper explores positions of hadith and ethics in discussing the genetic engineering humans by departing from following questions: a) how do contribute to constructing various aspects human genetics? b) did social context around Prophet Muhammad affect construction hadith? c) addressing genetics relate scientific development? reveals that process are prescribed hadith, illuminating contextu...