Sentences with phrase «causes human disease»

The bacterium that causes the human disease cholera can be transported in ballast water.

«If you want to understand what causes human disease, it's not like there are better options.»

Although there's no evidence that PK causes human disease, retroviruses are particularly worrisome candidates for crossing the species barrier, says virologist Jon Allen of San Antonio's Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research.

If there is anything scientists are certain of when it comes to bats and their supposed role in causing human disease, it is that they still have a lot to learn.

Whether XMRV caused any human diseases — or was even a transmissible, specifically human infection — was uncertain at best.

So after all that, Borna does not cause any human disease at all?

«We are only beginning to understand the role that human - made chemicals play in causing human disease,» said Regnier.

The findings should help researchers better track down the genes that cause human disease.

Next - generation sequencing — the ability to sequence millions or billions of small fragments of DNA in parallel — has revolutionized the biological sciences, playing an essential role in everything from locating mutations that cause human disease to determining how a newly discovered animal fits into the tree of life.

As Ganguly - Fitzgerald says: «Of all genes known to cause human disease, more than 60 percent are found in the fruit fly.»

My research focuses on understanding how molds and other fungi cause human disease.

«A recent national survey of shelters revealed that almost 36 % of dogs nationwide and 52 % of dogs from southeastern states harbored helminths capable of causing human disease.

Because the plaintiff's own experts conceded that there are no studies, even today, that purport to demonstrate that PCBs volatilize at levels capable of causing human disease, the Court concluded that the plaintiff failed to establish any viable products liability cause of action.

Not exact matches

But with the exception (perhaps) of some infections, human disease, including lung cancer, is rarely «caused» by one (and only one) thing.

What it does: The role of this bacteria, which is most well - known for causing syphilis and Lyme disease, is still not well - understood in humans.

BenevolentAI created a bioscience machine «brain» that uses algorithms and data to locate the cause of diseases and generate insights into them that humans otherwise couldn't.

While most strains don't cause disease in humans, the bacteria can cause respiratory tract and heart valve infections and sexually transmitted chancre sores in those with weakened immune systems.

What it does: This bacteria is most notorious for causing severe illnesses such as tuberculosis, leprosy, and Hansen's disease, though most species of mycobacteria in nature are benign in humans, unless in cases of those who have weakened immune systems.

Systems science is an interdisciplinary field that studies how the interaction of factors produces outcomes — how the causes and consequences of events can, taken together, form the basis for everything from a disease epidemic, to a pattern of human behavior.

The outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa in 2014, and the worldwide panic it caused, served as a wake - up call: We as a human race are still extremely vulnerable to fast - spreading, infectious diseases.

CIFAR is finding the root causes of human diseases, developing technology to improve quality of life, bridging the divide between rich and poor nations, and meeting our future energy needs.

This team also discovered 3,200 genes that had fewer loss - of - function or missense mutations than would be expected suggesting that these are likely disease - causing variants that are rare or absent in the population because of their detrimental effect on human health.

Apparently your God liked more babies dying but science had a heart and now birth mortality rates are higher than they have ever been in human history with fewer diseases and complications causing baby deaths.

The human generative faculties are not built for homosexual types of acts, and such acts cause serious disease.

If god created all the organisms on the planet, then He must have created even the diseases that have caused and are causing so much death and misery for humans and animals.

The Human Genome Project, not long ago completed at a cost of $ 3 billion, was often presented by its promoters as opening the way to discovering the ultimate genetic causes of all diseases, thus setting the stage for their cure.

Such an attention getting event might be the simultaneous and overnight, 1) world wide total and permanent remission of all cancers, 2) world wide regeneration of limbs of all amputees, 3) world wide total cessation of sëx trafficking human abuse, 4) world wide total cessation of child abuse, 5) world wide cessation of all hostilities, 6) world wide sudden curing of diseases cause by genetic defects.

«This may contribute to antibiotic resistance, [and] scientists are more concerned about disease - causing bacteria that develops resistance in farm animals to then infect human beings.

Disease control authorities said Friday that there was a risk of cow - to - human transmission if a consumer drinks unsterilized milk, but that there was no cause for concern because all milk on the market must be sterilized.

It destroys the microbiome of humans and plants, which is the root cause of many modern diseases.

An infectious disease caused by type - A strains of the influenza virus that is transmittable from birds to humans.

The basic principle under food chemistry is to create the methods that makes it possible to harvest, preserve, process and prepare the food with high nutritional value for human consumption and increase the shelf life of food products without causing any diseases to the human.

Some preservation methods cause diseases to the human like addition of food additives for preservation.

If any of these components is reduced in food products and human consumption these will leads to the Deficiency diseases for example Kwashiorkor and Marasmus caused by the deficiency of dietary proteins.

Such standards help eliminate product contamination by any number of microorganisms known to cause dangerous infection and disease in humans.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, smoking is the number one cause of heart disease in women under 50.

Excessive and unnecessary use of the drugs, which are similar to what doctors prescribe for people's ear infections, strep throats and other illnesses, can lead to super-resistant strains of bacteria that can cause serious human diseases that have no cure.

The human body has approximately ten species of leukocyte cells that eliminate disease - causing pathogens.

Apart from the obvious obstacle they pose to economic and social development, these diseases are the cause of enormous human suffering and high death counts.

Chagas disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which, in different forms, infects both humans and insects.

But in March, Lichun Tang of China's Beijing Proteome Research Center and colleagues reported using CRISPR / Cas9 to correct disease - causing mutations in a small number of viable human embryos.

Since the first human brain organoids were created from stem cells in 2013, scientists have gotten them to form structures like those in the brains of fetuses, to sprout dozens of different kinds of brain cells, and to develop abnormalities like those causing neurological diseases such as Timothy syndrome.

The newly sequenced genome of the plague - causing bacterium Yersinia pestis suggests human adaptations are what have kept this disease in check

There are eight human herpes viruses, and they cause a wide spectrum of diseases, ranging from common cold sores to cancer.

Researchers from Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) Lisboa have created a chimera virus that allows the study of molecules to treat cancers caused by human herpes virus infection in mice models of disease.

Degenerative brain diseases like mad cow disease (officially known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), scrapie in sheep, and vCJD in humans are thought to be caused by prions, misfolded versions of a normal cellular protein called PrPC.

Devastating brain disease caused by human cannibalism promoted protective gene mutation to emerge just 200 years ago

In humans, prion diseases can cause a variety of rapidly progressive neurological symptoms, such as difficulty walking and speaking, and dementia.

«The discovery of HDMP in humans means that for the first time we are seeing an important mechanism in the process which causes the disease.

Chronic wasting disease (CWD)-- an infectious disease caused by prions — affects North American elk and deer, but has not been observed in humans.