Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) is suggested as an efficacious therapeutic strategy for restoring intestinal microbial balance, and thus for treating disease associated with alteration of gut microbiota.FMT consists of the administration of fresh or frozen fecal microorganisms from a healthy donor into the intestinal tract of diseased patien
Low-cost high-throughput targeted sequencing for the accurate detection of respiratory tract pathogens
Introduction: The current gold standard for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) diagnosis by real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is limited by the number of genes that can be detected.In this study, we developed a low-cost and high-throughput next-generation sequencing technology that can over
Optimization of Advanced Encryption Standard on Graphics Processing Units
Graphics processing units (GPUs) are specially designed for parallel applications and perform parallel operations much faster than central processing units (CPUs).In this work, we focus on the performance of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) on GPUs.We present optimizations which remove bank conflicts in Dishwasher Lower Tray shared memory acc
Microscopic Visualisation of Zoonotic Arbovirus Replication in Tick Cell and Organ Cultures Using Semliki Forest Virus Reporter Systems
Ticks are vectors and reservoirs of many arboviruses pathogenic for humans or domestic animals; in addition, during bloodfeeding they can acquire and harbour pathogenic arboviruses normally transmitted by other arthropods such as mosquitoes.Tick Type cell and organ cultures provide convenient tools for propagation and study of arboviruses, both tic