Sentences with phrase «zika in different cell»

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«If you see consistent phenotypes in different models, the things that are happening are probably important,» says Guo - li Ming of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, who led the earlier studies of Zika in human neural progenitor cells.

Brain cells from different people vary in their susceptibility to Zika infections, says infectious disease researcher Scott Weaver, also at the University of Texas Medical Branch but not involved in the study.

The findings mapping the structural landmarks or epitopes recognized by CD8 + cells appear in the January 12, 2017, issue of Cell Host & Microbe and provide an important tool to track Zika - specific T cells in the context of different disease models.

«We compiled a list of the proteins we thought Zika and similar viruses like dengue were using to get inside of cells, and then we looked to see which of these proteins were abundantly present in the different cell types of the developing brain,» said Pollen, who did the work with Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, and a UCSF graduate student Carmen Sandoval - Espinosa, BS, both in Kriegstein's lab.

• Detect Zika virus in blood and urine samples within hours and distinguish between its African and American strains • Distinguish between Zika and dengue • Discriminate different types of bacteria, like E. coli • Detect cancer cell mutations • Detect antibiotic resistance genes • Read human genetic information from saliva sample