Sentences with phrase «defenses against the virus»

The mutant flies died much more rapidly than did normal flies, the team reports 24 March in Science, evidence that the RNAi mechanism is at least one of the fly's defenses against viruses.

You knew your morning parfait was doing your body good — but also know that it's helping your body boost its defenses against viruses, says D'Adamo.

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That's because young children are exposed to many new germs (viruses or bacteria) and haven't yet built up enough defenses against them.

He said he was contacted by DARPA soon after MERS was first reported in 2012 and asked to study the virus from the viewpoint of biological defenses against it.

As an additional safety feature, the researchers introduced two mutations that weakened the virus's ability to combat the cell's defenses against infection, reasoning that the mutated virus still would be able to grow in tumor cells — which have a poor antiviral defense system — but would be eliminated quickly in healthy cells with a robust antiviral response.

Therefore, our main interest was to determine whether E-cig exposure has any impact on pulmonary immune defenses against bacteria or viruses that are commonly associated with acute exacerbations of COPD.

When puppies are too young to be vaccinated against the parvo virus and they have not been protected by maternal antibodies as a result of vaccination of a breeding female, they lack the defenses to fight against this aggressive virus.