Sentences with phrase «scientists know the virus»

Scientists know the virus has a limited ability to spread from person to person, but they aren't sure about the path it took to reach its first human victims.

Not exact matches

But we shouldn't take as our paradigm of knowing the most technical and rigorous kinds of focusing — like what scientists do when they're studying a virus.

Viticulturists and Scientists Battle Latest Vineyard Virus: Red Blotch When he was hired by Halter Ranch in 2012, Lucas Pope knew there was a lot to tackle.

A far - reaching study conducted by scientists at Cincinnati Children's reports that the Epstein - Barr virus (EBV)-- best known for causing mononucleosis — also increases the risks for some people of developing seven other major diseases.

At that time scientists knew that antibodies from people infected by the 1968 pandemic virus also reacted with an influenza strain isolated in 1963 from flu - ridden ducks.

Scientists already know how these RNA viruses infect cells.

H5N1 is getting far more attention than SARS from scientists who study the ecology of viruses because, of the 44 people who are known to have gotten H5N1 in 2004, 32 died.

Knowing the structure means scientists can explore how RNA synthesis is working in these viruses.

CDC, racing to sequence the virus from those infected, said it's seeing «slight changes» in its genetic makeup, but, said Besser, agency scientists don't know what that means.

Nor do scientists know where the original 1918 pandemic virus came from or where its distant descendant, the new H1N1 strain, is going.

Around 1984, when a student of his pointed out that Duesberg had not attended a West Coast meeting of scientists working on tumor viruses, he suddenly realized that he was no longer being invited to the informal meetings.

Scientists want to know if the virus could interact with other factors, such as mutated genes, to trigger the disease.

FMEL scientists do not yet know how well Aedes aegypti — the Yellow Fever mosquito — and Aedes albopictus — the Asian tiger mosquito — transmit the Zika virus to humans.

Scientists already know how to use a weakened strain of a respiratory virus called adenovirus to transport healthy genes to cells.

The new virus, officially known as Mimivirus (because it mimics a bacterium), is a creature «so bizarre,» as The London Telegraph described it, «and unlike anything else seen by scientists... that... it could qualify for a new domain in the tree of life.»

Here were entities so wraith - like that they remained unseen until 1935, when scientists armed with the newly invented electron microscope managed to take a picture of the «poison» lurking in Beijerinck's slime, today known as tobacco mosaic virus.

Computer scientist Eran Shir of Tel Aviv University in Israel sees a lot of electronic epidemics that should not have happened: viruses that spread rapidly because computers have no way of knowing not to run malicious programs.

The scientists examined the human herpes virus 8, otherwise known as Kaposi's sarcoma - associated herpesvirus.

To make things worse, no antiviral drugs currently available have proven effective against it, and because scientists do not know where the virus resides between outbreaks, environmental control is impossible.

Scientists don't know why the immature Zika virus reshuffles its insides, Kuhn says — perhaps it helps the maturing virus become infectious.

Scientists hope that the drug, known as PMEA, might eventually help to fight HIV infection — particularly when given to people immediately after exposure to the virus.

Scientists knew that the SARS virus uses a receptor called ACE2 to pry open cells.

Negotiations with the U.S. company that holds the license for commercialization of the vaccine — which contains a gene for the Ebola surface protein stitched into a livestock pathogen known as vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV)-- have needlessly delayed the start of the trial, Becker and several other scientists tell Science.

The scientists removed the genes controlling viral replication and that cause disease, and they added part of the controlling element of a gene known as CCN1 to cause the virus to replicate selectively in cancer cells.

To harness the power of bacteriophages and develop effective therapies against bacteria like C.diff, scientists need to know exactly how these viruses destroy bacterial cell walls.

But after discovering a novel group of giant viruses with a more complete set of translation machinery genes than any other virus known to date, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, believe that this group (dubbed «Klosneuviruses») significantly increases our understanding of viral evolution.

They didn't know what the viruses did with it, but some scientists such as Max Delbruck and Salvador Luria started to infect E. coli with its viruses and see what happens.

Scientists already knew that bacteria could contaminate utensils in this way, but the new study is the first to look at hepatitis A virus and norovirus, the most common cause of foodborne illness in the United States.

Scientists knew that all cells can shred unwanted RNA using RNAi, but they had never observed living animals using this strategy to defend against viruses.

In 2013, scientists amassed substantial evidence that people and other animals form a unit with their resident bacteria, archaea, fungi and viruses — the collection of microbes known as the microbiome.

In the genome of tumour cells of 11 patients, the scientists observed the insertion of a viral DNA segment from adeno - associated virus type 2, known as AAV2.

«Many scientists suspected that the virus had hidden away in her brain and something happened that meant that she subsequently developed meningitis, I don't think we really know what that trigger was.

For the first time, scientists know what happens to a virus» shape when it invades a host cell, thanks to an experiment by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

It has been more than a century since scientists discovered the first virus, and for decades it was known simply as a «very small disease - causing agent».

PULLMAN, Wash. — A team of scientists from Washington State University has discovered how one of the planet's most deadly known viruses employs burglary - ring - like teamwork to infiltrate the human cell.

And scientists think they know how she got the virus: She put her hand on rocks covered in bat guano.

This new enemy is in cahoots with devious scientist, Dr. Alrich Killian, who is working on a deadly toxin known as the Extremis virus.

Dr. Kock is a global expert on investigating factors contributing to the epidemic of goat plague, a highly contagious virus known to scientists as peste des petits ruminants (PPR).

We know that viruses and bacteria cause disease; scientists call this germ theory.