Sentences with phrase «chimpanzee virus»

This includes utilizing a modified chimpanzee virus as a vaccine carrier to induce an immune response against HIV, and a new therapeutic vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), a leading cause of cervical cancer.

Garry argues that, at that rate of change, it would have taken hundreds of years for the closest equivalent chimpanzee virus to become HIV.

HIV may have been associated with humans for hundreds of years rather than recently evolving from a chimpanzee virus, says a virologist from New Orleans after analysing tissue from a young male prostitute who died 30 years ago.

Of the three strains of HIV known to infect humans, we know that two — the one causing the global AIDS epidemic and another that has infected a small number of people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIV.

The chimpanzee virus could be used to make vaccines to various pathogens, including hepatitis, human papillomavirus, and HIV.

A chimpanzee virus could provide a useful alternative for vaccine development, according to new research in mice.

Not exact matches

Hunting and deforestation have already brought chimpanzees to the brink of extinction, but «diseases such as anthrax, Ebola, or introduced human respiratory viruses may serve as the final nail in their coffin,» says disease ecologist Tom Gillespie of Emory University in Atlanta.

The deaths of five Ugandan chimpanzees have been traced to a human cold virus, and DNA tests suggest all African chimps are vulnerable

The virus kills several species, including antelopes, chimpanzees, and gorillas.

Researchers have identified the evolutionary origins of human herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 and -2, reporting that the former infected hominids before their evolutionary split from chimpanzees 6 million years ago while the latter jumped from ancient chimpanzees to ancestors of modern humans — Homo erectus — approximately 1.6 million years ago.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified the evolutionary origins of human herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 and -2, reporting that the former infected hominids before their evolutionary split from chimpanzees 6 million years ago while the latter jumped from ancient chimpanzees to ancestors of modern humans — Homo erectus — approximately 1.6 million years ago.

The viral family tree showed that HSV - 2 was far more genetically similar to the herpes virus found in chimpanzees.

In 1997 Charles M. Rice, now head of the laboratory of virology and infectious disease at the Rockefeller University, showed that mutating the viral protease in hepatitis C — infected chimpanzees stopped the virus, the first clue about the enzyme's importance.

Chimpanzees are popular subjects for AIDS research (even though their immune system rarely succumbs to the virus) and are used in painful cancer and psychological tests, as well as for research on blood diseases and organ transplants.

Recent research suggests the virus «jumped» to humans from a West African subspecies of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) intermittently decades or even centuries ago.

Researchers have long suspected that chimpanzees were the source of HIV - 1, the AIDS virus, but proof from the wild was missing.

As if poaching, logging, habitat loss and climate change aren't bad enough, wild chimpanzees now face a new, deadly peril: a virus that causes common colds in people.

Researchers believe that sometime in the 1930s a form of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) jumped to humans who butchered or ate chimpanzee bush meat in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The ebola virus is responsible for thousands of gorilla and chimpanzee deaths in Africa and the origin of HIV, the virus which causes AIDs, is SIV, simian immunodeficiency virus.

So Emerman and colleagues resurrected the analogous protein from PtERV1, based on its remnants in chimpanzees, and inserted it into a defective version of the mouse virus, which could infect cells but not reproduce.

The vaccine that has been tested in the United States was made from a cold - causing chimpanzee adenovirus that had been engineered to express proteins from two species of the Ebola virus, known as Zaire and Sudan (after their origins), and that was already available when the trial began in early September.

It uses chimpanzees in an effort to understand protective immunity to the hepatitis C virus.

When Peter Parham's postdoc first showed him data suggesting a gene in some wild chimpanzees infected with the AIDS virus closely resembled one that protects humans from HIV, he was skeptical.

Gorillas aren't the only victims; Bermejo estimates that the virus may have wiped out more than80 percent of the local chimpanzees too.

The virus most closely related to HIV - 1 is a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) thus far identified only in captive members of the chimpanzee subspecies Pan troglodytes troglodytes.

Tantalisingly, the stowaway virus might even provide clues to what makes us different from chimpanzees and other non-human primates.

Over the past 20 years, evidence has accumulated that points to Africa and a similar virus in chimpanzees.

That study similarly analyzed fecal samples and isolated an AIDS - like virus, called SIVcpz, from 16 chimpanzees.

Although outbreaks are rare, Ebola virus, Marburg virus, and other so - called filoviruses periodically cause massive hemorrhaging in humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and other primates.

The virus originated from another unidentified species of hominin that in turn got it from chimpanzees.

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Humans and chimpanzees, for instance, have slightly different versions of the hepatitis B virus, both of which likely mutated from a version that infected their shared ancestor more than four million years ago.

New research uses innovative data modelling to predict which species acted as an intermediary between our ancestors and those of chimpanzees to carry HSV2 — the genital herpes virus — across the species barrier.

Chimpanzees living in Africa, where scientists believe a chimp first passed the virus that became HIV on to a person.

Scientists found clues to suggest this happened with HIV after detecting a very similar virus in monkeys and in chimpanzees and other great apes.

This spectacular sci - fi adventure begins when a failed experiment gives a baby chimpanzee human - like intelligence, but also creates a virus that nearly destroys mankind.

Since chimpanzees are significantly stronger than humans, once an army of them gets a hold of guns, the few remaining humans who have not succumbed to the virus don't stand a chance.

Director Danny Boyle Cast Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson This town is coming like a ghost town The first scene in Danny Boyle's symbolic UK - set zombie fest is hairy in more ways than one: a group of animal activists descend on a biological vivisection centre and release a chimpanzee infected with rage, a contagious rabies - like virus.

While these simian viruses crossed over to human populations almost certainly as a result of humans ingesting chimpanzee flesh, directly transplanting the organs of other species into humans is also vector for viral transmission.

And although the origin of HIV - 1 remains uncertain, viruses related to HIV - 1 have been isolated from the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), as well as two African chimpanzee subspecies (the central P. t. troglodytes and the eastern P. t. schweinfurthii).