Sentences with phrase «find than the virus»

He notes, however, that the freezing and processing required to study the blood samples often causes degradation that makes RNA easier to find than the virus.

Not exact matches

A 2013 study from Stanford University found that women's antibodies tend to respond more rapidly to an injection of the flu virus than men's antibodies.

Furthermore, you may find that it's better for (half monkeys like you) your brain to be fed to virus that it will have use rather than keeping it inside your cranium but as an excess baggage.

Among mice that had antibodies, i.e., during antibody - enhanced infection, the researchers found that the addition of saliva extract caused more severe disease than virus alone.

The study found that viruses varied more widely between the twins than the bacterial communities did.

When they matched the natural course of IL - 27 (treatment starting at day 5 after virus infection), they found that fewer mice died, that they lost less weight, and recovered quicker than those without treatment.

Ten years after infection with HIV, a typical person has progressed to where tens if not hundreds of thousands of copies of the virus can be found in a single milliliter of their blood and more than three quarters of their CD4 immune cells are destroyed, if they have not started drug therapy.

«We found that in each of the regions we could analyze, Zika virus circulated undetected for many months, up to a year or longer, before the first locally transmitted cases were reported,» says Bronwyn MacInnis, an infectious disease geneticist at the Broad Institute, in Cambridge, Mass. «This means the outbreak in these regions was under way much earlier than previously thought.»

When the researchers examined mice with disrupted IL - 27 function, they found that they were more likely than normal mice likely to die when infected with the virus, and that they died as a consequence of rampant lung inflammation.

The researchers found that HIV spiked into semen was more successful than the virus alone at infecting T cells and macrophages (immune system cells that are believed to be the infection's initial targets in the body).

Sorek's team found more than 100 different arbitrium - like systems, most of them in the genomes of other Bacillus viruses.

The bacteria, described in tomorrow's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are among the smallest ever found, barely bigger than some viruses.

Antibodies derived from a type of immune cell found in unusually high numbers in HIV - infected individuals with chronically uncontrolled virus levels are less effective at neutralizing HIV than antibodies derived from a different type of immune cell more common in people without HIV, scientists report.

The researchers found high levels of Zika virus in the placentas — 1000 times more than in the mother's blood — supporting the hypothesis that the virus harms the placenta, which, in turn, cuts the blood supply to the fetus, Diamond says.

He hopes to do more than just find active Ebola virus.

In a recent test of Asian tiger mosquitoes collected in Brazil, researchers found fragments of Zika virus RNA, raising concerns that it may be carried by species other than Zika's known primary vector, the yellow fever mosquito.

«Traces of Zika Found in Asian tiger mosquito in Brazil: Virus fragments detected in species other than Zika's known primary vector.»

«Our finding will not help develop a vaccine because the focus is on innate immunity rather than the virus,» Huang said.

The findings suggest that the Zika virus may replicate more robustly in the female reproductive tract than at other sites of infection, with potentially dire consequences for reproduction, said the researchers.

Among other findings, that study found that the varroa mite is far more abundant than previous estimates indicate and is closely linked to several damaging viruses.

Findings from a recent study, conducted by the University of Florida's Tourism Crisis Management Initiative, or TCMI, shows more than 70 percent of potential visitors are concerned with the mosquito - borne Zika virus in Florida.

However, the team found that the Zika virus is more thermally stable than the dengue virus, and is also structurally stable even when incubated at 40 degrees Celsius, mimicking the body temperature of extremely feverish patients after virus infection.

The scientists showed that HIV RNAs complementary to defective proviruses could be found in cells from two of four people in whom treatment had suppressed the virus to undetectable levels for more than 8 years.

The common cold virus can reproduce itself more efficiently in the cooler temperatures found inside the nose than at core body temperature, according to a new Yale - led study.

Boeckh and his colleagues found that rhinovirus infection led to pneumonia less often than the other viruses.

Overall, the team's findings lend credence to the theory that giant viruses evolved from much smaller viruses, rather than aligning with theories that they may instead be descended from a cellular ancestor.

They found that like other avian influenza viruses, the H7N9 viruses attached more strongly to lower parts of the human respiratory tract than to upper parts.

They tested it in a rat model of ADRP and found that after 2 to 3 months, eyes that had been injected with the virus - ribozyme combo contained 30 to 40 % more rod cells than eyes that received a dummy injection.

Yet the researchers found that most strains caused milder versions of the disease than the original virus.

They found that the virus replicated 10 times as much in mice that were infected at the end of their day, rather than at the beginning.

The find highlights how ancient viruses can more easily be identified by their proteins than their more commonly studied nucleic acids, such as DNA or RNA.

Testing the effectiveness of this molecule in their VLP assay, they found that it reduced the ability of the virus to bud off from human cells in culture by more than 90 percent and was similarly effective against proteins found in Ebola and HIV.

Scientists pre-treated human liver cells in vitro with SBEL1 prior to HCV infection and found that SBEL1 pre-treated cells contained 23 percent less HCV protein than the control, suggesting that SBEL1 blocks virus entry.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA — The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV - 1) responsible for most of the AIDS cases in the world infected people approximately 100 years ago, more than 20 years earlier than previously believed, according to findings presented here this week at the Evolution 2008 meeting.

The finding suggests that Sputnik infects more than one group of viruses and can shuttle genetic material from one giant virus to another.

Additionally, the researchers found that septic patients with higher levels of viruses detected in their blood were more likely than critically ill patients without sepsis to have more severe illnesses, secondary fungal and bacterial infections, and longer stays in the intensive care unit.

The group also found that the virus could be detected in fetal tissues other than mouse brain tissue, such as the lymph nodes.

Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that a novel laboratory tool that lets them find virus mutations faster and more efficiently than ever before has identified a biological mechanism that appears to play a big role in helping HCV evade both the natural immune system and vaccines.

«To me, an important finding is that the majority of the viral transmission events within tissue involved free virus rather than virological synapses,» says Bjorkman.

But one of them — VSV - ZEBOV, in which the Ebola protein is spliced inside of a live vesicular stomatitis virus normally found in cattle — proved 100 percent effective in a preliminary test of more than 4,000 people in Guinea this past summer.

If the virus now found in the Americas and Caribbean moves into the bugs» spit faster than other strains do, it could fuel a larger, faster - moving outbreak in humans — and favor the inside version in the inside / outside hypotheses duel.

But the virus has been found in more than 60 bird species and about a dozen mammals; in a little more than a year, it has spread to 11 states along the East Coast and the District of Columbia.

In contrast to previous reports, new findings suggest the Ebola virus is not evolving more rapidly during this outbreak than it has in previous, less extensive Ebola outbreaks.

Working with colleagues at LaamScience, Michielsen has found a way to transform ordinary cotton, nylon, polyester, and just about every other common textile into wearable weapons that could eradicate 99.9 percent of viruses and some bacteria in less than an hour.

So far, they haven't been able to find the virus's «animal reservoir» (the species it infects other than humans), or nail down how people are infected and how many mild or asymptomatic infections there are in the region.

As part of the study, more than 250 UK and Ireland healthcare and other workers were tested for Ebola virus antibodies after returning from West Africa — no evidence of missed infections was found.

And the magnetic structures found in hard drives measure just 10 to 20 nanometers across — less than a flu virus at 80 to 120 nanometers in diameter.

When they killed the animals a week later, they found that the virus had broken apart dystrophin in their hearts and that the membranes of heart cells infected with Coxsackie B virus were more permeable to blue dye than uninfected cells.

The results suggest that the virus is «more clever than originally thought» because it exploits a garbage - collection process found in almost all cells, says Mercer.

In the early 1980s, scientists found that patients suffering from schizophrenia and manic depression were up to 10 times more likely to have antibodies to the virus than healthy people, suggesting that infection might contribute to those diseases.