Sentences with phrase «crossing species barriers»

Annette Cotter: GE — or manipulation of organisms at a genetic level by crossing species barriers is an inherently risky business.

It is certainly not a more efficient form of traditional cross-breeding, but rather a qualitatively different and risky technology which can cross the species barrier, which nature would never do.

The assumption that BSE could not cross the species barrier was proving increasingly uncertain.

Previously it was assumed that these viruses crossed the species barrier as a result of mutation or recombination with another pathogen.

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.

Short elements within a prion protein's sequence can cause it to activate and even cross the species barrier to spread neurodegenerative disorders such as Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease to humans

To cross the species barrier and establish themselves in the human population, influenza strains must acquire mutations that allow them to evade components of the human immune system, including, perhaps, the innate immune protein MxA.

This observation implies that TMAdV possesses an inherent capacity to cross the species barrier and infect both humans and nonhuman primates.

Nevertheless, our discovery of TMAdV, a novel adenovirus with the capacity to cross species barriers, highlights the need to monitor adenoviruses closely for outbreak or even pandemic potential.

«This gives us insight as to why some prions can't cross the species barrier while others can — as they have with mad cows and humans.,» says Lindquist.

In a press release, the nonprofit AKC - CHF singled out Breitschwerdt's innovative, leading - edge research in infectious disease research that, «has advanced our knowledge of deadly pathogens that cross species barriers, contributing to both canine and human health.»

Not only will individual animals often travel great distances to find unoccupied territories, they may also cross the species barrier as they do so.

His eventual goal is to find ways of «crossing the species barrier» between academics and the general public, to liberate the professional knowledge of attachment theory into the population at large.

Not exact matches

These experimental combinations of genes cross the natural species barrier and have not been proven safe.

They are also studying how structures that enable blood - brain barrier crossing might differ from one animal species to another.

According to research conducted at the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), some fungal viruses (mycoviruses) that infect fungi associated with forest trees are able to cross the barriers between distantly related fungal species.

It's a language that crosses the barriers between species.

Many migratory species must cross geographical barriers (e.g., the Sahara Desert, oceans) in moving between their wintering and breeding areas.