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“Transeurasian EBV” paper has been published

Teru Kanda
2024年12月28日
Papers of interest

We published an open-access paper in Virology.The Transeurasian language family is a group of languages spread across the Eurasian continent, including Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolian, and Turkic (overview by Google AI). We found that the people speaking the Transeurasian language are infected with a similar type of EBV, which we designate as Transeurasian EBV.

A header image has been updated

Teru Kanda
2023年11月17日
Page update

Yesterday, November 16th, it was clear, sunny, and pleasant. The western view from the 7th floor of the research building was spectacular, so I made it the header image for my homepage. The previous header image was a photo of autumn clouds stained by sunset. While the scenery was beautiful, I was concerned about the …

An EBV paper came out from UCSD

Teru Kanda
2023年7月20日
Papers of interest

Yesterday, a “Web of Science Alert” e-mail informed me about a Nature paper on EBV research. The article states that human chromosome 11q23 has a clustered repeat to which the viral protein EBNA1 binds and that 11q23-specific chromosomal break occurs when the expression level of EBNA1 increases. There have been reports that EBNA1 is involved …