Sentences with phrase «university virologists»

Tulane University virologist Preston Marx published research in September that suggests otherwise: SIV seems to be at least 32,000 years old, meaning it coexisted with people nearly all that time before HIV emerged.

Hong Kong University virologist Yi Guan and his colleagues have been sampling poultry in Hong Kong and southern China since 2000, watching for the re-emergence of what is known as the H5N1 virus.

Columbia University virologist Ian Lipkin praises the Wellcome group's work for combining the genetic analysis with «classical gumshoe epidemiology,» but isn't convinced by the authors» bottom line.

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Instead, you would have to start with a huge dose of virus, says flu virologist Earl Brown of the University of Ottawa.

More poetically, virologists Marc H. V. van Regenmortel of the University of Strasbourg in France and Brian W. J. Mahy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently said that with their dependence on host cells, viruses lead «a kind of borrowed life.»

«[The study is] truly impressive and a good example of how investments in long - term studies pay off,» says Aravinda de Silva, a virologist who studies dengue at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill.

Moreover, getting a better picture of what the virus looks like and understanding its properties through animal testing and studying patients» blood might help vaccine developers pinpoint specific issues, says Pei - Yong Shi, a virologist at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

The paper, in PLOS ONE, spells out how virologist David Evans at the University of Alberta in Canada, and his research associate Ryan Noyce ordered bits of horsepox DNA from the internet, painstakingly assembled them, then showed that the resulting virus was able to infect cells and reproduce.

When he looked for a postdoc in 2004, he weighed options, which included working with a more traditional molecular biologist, Tom Maniatis, then at Harvard University, or with a virologist, Adolfo García - Sastre at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, whom he'd met through Hiscott in the early days of his Ph.D..

Ian Lipkin of Columbia University, a well - known virologist who probes links between microbial infections and neuropsychiatric disorders, is being sued, along with the university, by epidemiologist Mady Hornig, his long - term colUniversity, a well - known virologist who probes links between microbial infections and neuropsychiatric disorders, is being sued, along with the university, by epidemiologist Mady Hornig, his long - term coluniversity, by epidemiologist Mady Hornig, his long - term collaborator.

The reshuffling is «necessary» if «difficult» and «painful,» said virologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University.

But safe smallpox vaccines already exist, and there appears to be no market for a horsepox - based replacement, says virologist Stephan Becker of the University of Marburg in Germany.

Redfield, a virologist and professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, will soon replace Brenda Fitzgerald — who resigned in January amid reports about her investments in tobacco and health care companies.

«We were not expecting to find an enhancer, and we were even more surprised about the strength,» says report co-author Frank Kirchhoff, a virologist at the University of Ulm Clinic in Germany.

Now a team led by x-ray crystallographer Wayne Hendrickson at Columbia University in New York City and molecular virologist Joseph Sodroski at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has determined gp120's atomic structure to a resolution of 2.5 angstroms.

And in another advance, virologist Paula Cannon of the University of Southern California used zinc finger nucleases to create human stem cells that lack CCR5.

► For a Tuesday ScienceInsider post, Kai Kupferschmidt interviewed Christian Drosten, a virologist at the University of Bonn in Germany, who is «among those leading the effort to understand Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and contain the disease.»

«This is an extremely well - done study,» says John Lednicky, a virologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville who wasn't part of the research.

Virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin and University of Tokyo and his colleagues tested strains of H5N1 isolated from respiratory tissue in the noses, throats and lungs of infected humans.

Gary Nabel, a molecular virologist with the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, and Anthony Sanchez, a virologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, created their candidate vaccine from snippets of the Ebola virus's DNA.

The Naked Scientists, which airs live each week on BBC Radio and via podcast, is the work of Cambridge University physician and virologist Chris Smith and his band of merry science junkies.

«Cytoskeleton elements control cellular shape, growth, and movement, provide mechanical support and stress - resilience, and coordinate organelle anchoring and vesicular transport,» says senior author Ralf Bartenschlager, a virologist at Heidelberg University.

But Robert Garry, a virologist at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, who is developing an antigen - based Ebola strip test, is nonetheless confident about that approach after successfully developing a similar diagnostic for Lassa fever.

As a virologist at the University of Yaoundé I studying a rare variant of HIV, he is besieged with requests for collaboration from scientists in the US and Europe.

University of Nebraska - Lincoln virologists have identified a Zika mutation that may help explain why the virus became more lethal during outbreaks that sickened tens of thousands of people in the Caribbean, South America and the United States in 2015 and 2016.

Scott Weaver, a virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, notes that in places where chikungunya immunity was measured, «typically from 20 to 50 percent of the population became infected as the outbreak swept through a given region.»

This makes the development of an effective vaccine to protect against infection, as well as antiviral therapy to combat already - existing infections, particularly challenging,» says Dr. Grant Hansman, a virologist who leads the CHS Research Group on Noroviruses at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and Heidelberg University.

«The cases in Egypt make it even harder to say it wasn't spread by wild birds,» says wildlife virologist Björn Olsen of Umeå University in Sweden.

«This is very, very impressive work,» says Scott Weaver, a virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, who has worked extensively on EEEV but was not involved in the study.

The group plans to publish a paper recommending the new name, says Raoul de Groot, a veterinary virologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, who has coordinated the effort.

Subsequently, molecular virologist Ralf Bartenschlager of the University of Heidelberg in Germany confirmed the vital role of the protease in hepatitis C replication.

This finding is «pretty cool», says Erik Barton, a virologist at Purdue University, Indiana.

Such lags are too long, says virologist Charles Chiu, director of the Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center at the University of California in San Francisco.

«The work on antibodies isolated from survivors of filovirus infections, including Marburg and Ebola, was started by James Crowe's laboratory at Vanderbilt University together with our laboratory about 3 years ago,» said virologist Alex Bukreyev, professor at UTMB and co-corresponding author.

The virus first blocks the immune system's regulatory response that usually gives non-native substances, like food proteins, the OK, Terence Dermody, a virologist at the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues found.

Michael Lai, molecular microbiologist, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles: Viruses are smarter than virologists.

Tim Harrison, a molecular virologist at University College London, agrees that the idea is an interesting one, but he points out that the theory might not apply to all viruses.

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«There are a lot of severe cases in the hospitals here, and very often we can't come to a diagnosis,» says H. Rogier van Doorn, a clinical virologist with the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City.

«Things have clearly changed,» adds virologist Robert Garry of Tulane University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, who a few weeks ago had resigned himself — grudgingly, like many scientists — to the idea that no Ebola drugs or vaccines would be available during the current outbreak.

Robert Garry, virologist engaged in envelope - protein research that may lead to a SARS vaccine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans: We've learned that it's good to support basic scientific research.

«It will probably end when the number of susceptible animals dwindles,» virologist Jerry Saliki, of the University of Georgia, told reporters.

She sent the samples to Max Appel, a virologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who used monoclonal antibodies to confirm the identity of the proteins.

An investigator at the CEIRS center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, virologist Andrew Pekosz, says he has halted two projects listed in his stop work letter.

Writing this week (May 23, 2016) in the journal Nature Microbiology, a team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka describes a novel strategy to predict the antigenic evolution of circulating influenza viruses and give science the ability to more precisely anticipate seasonal flu strains.

Schultz - Cherry defended the work of University of Wisconsin, Madison, virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka, also at the meeting, and others who did the controversial H5N1 studies.

Like many influenza virologists, John Steel of Emory University in Atlanta often uses a feeble lab strain of influenza in his studies of how seasonal flu spreads.

A stem cell transplant like this has already been accomplished in mice by virologist Paula Cannon of the University of Southern California.

Virologist Ian Lipkin and university face sex discrimination allegations by colleague, who also claims misuse of grant funds