Modeling study sheds light on SARS-CoV-2 genome packaging
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have conducted a study exploring how the spatial patterning of certain genomic RNA regions in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) promotes compaction, packaging, and cyclization of the viral genome.
The novel SARS-CoV-2 virus is the agent responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic that continues to sweep the globe posing an unprecedented threat to global health and the worldwide economy.
A significant challenge for viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 is the specific and efficient packaging of a large genome into a relatively small capsid while excluding viral subgenomic fragments and cellular nucleic acids.
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Analytical Measurements Can Predict Organic Solar Cell Stability
North Carolina State University-led researchers have developed an analytical measurement “framework” which could allow organic solar cell researchers and manufacturers to determine which materials will produce the most stable solar cells prior to manufacture.
Organic solar cells have increased in efficiency over the past decades, but researchers and manufacturers still struggle with determining which material combinations work best and why, as well as with achieving stable morphology and operation.
“There is still a lot of ‘trial and error’ guesswork involved in identifying promising materials for these solar cells,” says Harald Ade, Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Professor of Physics at NC State and co-corresponding author of the research. “However, we found that if you understand two important parameters for the materials being used, you can predict how stable the active layer morpholo
George Horner Gibson, age 88, died at his home in Chicago on January 3, 2021. Gibson was born in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. He graduated from Furman University with bachelorâs degrees in History and English. He served in the U.S. Army for two years of active duty and four years of reserve duty. He was awarded a Danforth Fellowship for graduate study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he earned a masterâs degree and PhD in American History.
Dr. Gibson taught at the University of Mississippi, and at the University of Delaware where he coordinated the graduate fellowsâ program with the Hagley Museum in Wilmington, Delaware. He published one book and edited several others. Dr. Gibson published more than a score of articles in history journals and served as managing editor of Delaware History for eleven years. After becoming interested in academic administration, he initiated several programs at the University of Del
In 2009, I was invited to participate in a conference at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on the changes between newspapers and online media outlets. During the conference, we were given accounts on a new media application called Twitter.
Twitter called the application a way to communicate between people in short messages, even on laptops, in places like conferences. It crashed a few times during our attempts to use it and we went back to simply talking to each other to communicate.
But my sign-on remained and when Twitter began to catch on, I began to use it as a way to keep pass on links to news stories and other interesting items I felt others might like to read.