Sentences with phrase «flu researchers»

That hypothesis does not quite convince Graeme Laver, a retired flu researcher at Australian National University in Canberra.

As controversy rages around the scientists who created mutant strains of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, leading flu researchers have called for a 60 - day voluntary pause on such work.

Professor Mark Woolhouse, also of the University of Edinburgh, said: «This study could only have happened through bird flu researchers around the world pooling resources and working together.

As carriers — and fertile mixing grounds — for influenza A strains that could cause illness or even pandemic in humans, hogs are important subjects for flu researchers.

European flu researchers plan to review it.

The journals and the authors have agreed to this redaction, on the condition that a mechanism is established to disseminate the information to legitimate flu researchers on a need - to - know basis.

Many flu researchers have already seen the papers, so there was little to be gained by restricting their dissemination, says Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist and biodefence expert at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey.

Last week, in a statement jointly published in Nature and Science, 39 flu researchers declared a 60 - day pause in the creation of lab mutant strains of the H5N1 avian flu virus.

The 22 experts at the meeting, mainly flu researchers, believe that the delay is needed to explain the benefits of the work to the public, and allay concerns about its safety.

Private - public partnerships are essential in tackling pandemics, and excluding flu researchers with industry links would deprive advisory panels of world - class expertise, he says.

Such accusations irk flu researcher Lone Simonsen of George Washington University in Bethesda, Maryland.

AS THE swine flu pandemic continues to sweep the world, what do public health officials, epidemiologists and flu researchers think will happen in the coming months?

Flu researcher Ron Fouchier has been proactive in discussing the nature and benefits of his research.

When flu researchers learned about this new sugar - adorned H3N2 virus in 2014, they made sure to include that strain in the 2016 — 17 seasonal flu vaccine so that immunized individuals would mount an immune response against it.

In late December 2011, the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) asked flu researchers to strike key details from the papers, which are in press at Science and Nature.

Talks from flu researchers based around the country, followed by a poster session, are on Thursday.

Bird flu researchers use ferrets to study how the virus mutates and spreads.

The researchers themselves have always wanted to publish without restriction, and of the 22 people who met in Geneva, fully half were leading flu researchers, and none of the rest were biosecurity experts concerned with bioterrorism.

The journals and the authors have agreed to this redaction, provided that a mechanism is established to disseminate the data to flu researchers and public - health officials on a need - to - know basis.

Finding a way to make it available, without publishing openly in the journals, was what the flu researchers had been trying to work out in Geneva over the last two days.

If this new H3N2 continues to circulate, it's conceivable it could do what H1N1 did in 1977 and re-establish itself, says Arnold S. Monto, a flu researcher at the University of Michigan.

Kawaoka's study is an «important additional step along the way,» says Malik Peiris, a flu researcher at the University of Hong Kong, who co-wrote an article in Nature about the Kawaoka paper.

Nancy Cox, a flu researcher at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and another co-author of the Virology study, applauds Kawaoka and his colleagues for their «absolutely fantastic work,» and says their mutant «definitely moved the transmission bar to the right towards being fully transmissible.»