Sentences with phrase «existing human virus»

Although fears about chicken flu are receding, some scientists, including John Tam, professor of virology at the Chinese University in Hong Kong, warn that this strain could still wreak havoc by recombining with an existing human virus.

Not exact matches

I'll even offer observations - humans have manipulated existing organisms dna, created new virus and bacteria, clone animals, and attempt to create new animals - yet simple minded folks still reject the idea that another more intelligent creature might have done the same thing and created life on earth in the same fashion while at the same time acknowledging that there is a strong likelihood of other life existing in this universe - talk about being dumbed down and arrogant.

«There are adequate, if not overwhelming, reasons to be concerned that the two repositories that are under debate right now are not the only places in the world where live smallpox virus still exists,» says Nils Daulaire, director of the Office of Global Health Affairs at the US Department of Health and Human Services, and head of the US delegation to the Geneva meeting.

The emergence of the new H1N1 flu strain has demonstrated the effectiveness of existing systems to watch for human flu outbreaks while also proving a long - standing theory that pigs could serve as mixing vessels for a pandemic virus.

Understanding what combination of mutations could transform H5N1 into a human pandemic virus gives epidemiologists a leg up on preparing countermeasures; they can, for example, test existing vaccines against the new strain.

No vaccine currently exists for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and there is no cure for AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), which currently infects 34 million around the globe.

The virus - based vaccine seems «a very viable» way to one day treat existing disease in humans, says Fernando Goni at the New York University School of Medicine.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says this strain is so different from existing human flu viruses that most people have no immunity to it.

Researchers found 53 existing drugs that may keep the Ebola virus from entering human cells, a key step in the process of infection, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and published today in the Nature Press journal Emerging Microbes and Infections.

Her analysis also indicates that the virus existed in low levels in humans until the middle of the 20th century.

By solving the origins and the reassortments that led to the 2009 A / H1N1 pandemic, researchers might be able to study existing «brothers and sisters» of the virus to understand the type of mutations needed to allow a virus to jump into humans.

They also discovered that the parent virus had been present in the pigs in central Mexico for at least 10 years before a strain was generated that could jump into humans, and that the parent strains still exist in the pigs there today.

Taken together, these studies suggest that a mechanism that exists to defend against viruses also has an effect on whether or not the bacteria cause disease in humans — an important finding that may help us better understand why only some of these bacteria lead to illnesses such as pneumonia and meningitis.

Complexes of DNA with lipids and proteins provide an alternative to viruses, and researchers are also experimenting with introducing a 47th (artificial human) chromosome to the body that would exist autonomously along side the standard 46 chromosomes, presumably not affecting their functioning or causing any mutations.

There are over 6 Billion humans whom exist on this planet, at sometime in the near future there will be a virus, bacteria, that will decimate the human population.