Sentences with phrase «for dangerous pathogens»

One of the causes of Crohn's disease may be a «sensitive» immune system, which mistakes harmless bacteria for dangerous pathogens, triggering long - term inflammation and other GI symptoms.

One of the causes of Crohn's disease may be a «sensitive» immune system, which mistakes harmless bacteria for dangerous pathogens, triggering long - term inflammation and other GI symptoms.

Please be aware that these samples have not been tested for dangerous pathogens such as HIV and HBV and it is the sole responsibility of the person making the request that all precautions are taken to ensure safety.

In patients with colitis, inflammatory T cells in the lower intestines mistake the molecular structures of food or healthy gut bacteria for dangerous pathogens that must be destroyed.

Tests at Britain's lab for dangerous pathogens at Porton Down have found signs of anthrax infection in two Scottish victims.

About 17 percent of the food served in schools is donated by the federal government and undergoes stringent Agriculture Department testing for dangerous pathogens.

Not exact matches

Contaminated meals are especially dangerous for children because food - borne pathogens that may cause only mild cramps in healthy adults can cripple and kill young people, whose immune systems are still being formed.

Most of those bacteria actually help to keep the skin healthy by competing with dangerous pathogens for nutrients.

If the wildlife trade, which can originate in places like this, is not subject to surveillance for pathogens dangerous to people and animals, we can expect more new diseases to reach our shores.

«We need a constellation of genes, including those for strain markers and toxins, that could be used to identify dangerous bacteria,» says Glenn Morris, director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

The authors of the new study argue for the development of milder methods of milk processing that will ensure the retention of beneficial components present in raw milk, while ensuring that potentially dangerous pathogens are effectively eliminated.

And a voluntary program is already under way where companies screen DNA orders for sequences of dangerous pathogens to spot synthetic biologists up to no good.

Both Cardin and the representatives from DOD and DHS spoke favorably of a tiering system for select agents — an emerging idea among biodefense experts — under which facilities and researchers dealing with the most dangerous pathogens would be subject to the most stringent controls.

Prompted by advances such as this, the committee did, however, identify a key change that would be possible with current technology: moving to a sequence - based classification system for the regulation of dangerous pathogens.

Thanks to those pathogens, a punch in the mouth can be dangerous — for the aggressor.

The achievement, while celebrated as a major step forward in synthetic biology, could also make it easier for bioterrorists to make dangerous pathogens.

Venkateswaran agrees that they need to do more work to assess whether any dangerous pathogens are lingering in the ISS, which they hope to do by isolating intact bacteria and looking for virulence factors, increasing the length of the DNA chains they can sequence, and expanding their analyses to include viruses.

This week, however, the NSABB proposed talks to draft global guidelines for doing and communicating work involving dangerous pathogens.

The specialized cameras, which debuted in a few laboratories at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the past couple weeks, are affixed to heating equipment used to kill dangerous substances and to cabinets where pathogens are kept.

The result is that today we have created a dangerous pattern of milk production with these modern methods, which require pasteurization for ostensible protection from pathogens.

For example, these substances have been shown to kill the bacteria Staphylococcus Aureus (a very dangerous pathogen) and the yeast Candida Albicans, a common source of yeast infections in humans (9, 10).

For example, these substances have been shown to help kill the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus (a very dangerous pathogen) and the yeast Candida albicans, a common source of yeast infections in humans (7, 8).

The «one world, one health» initiative is an effort to boost and coordinate surveillance for potentially dangerous viruses and other pathogens that can mix and jump among livestock, birds, agricultural workers and the broader human community.

«Overly clean living can be bad for our immune systems, which need certain microbes and gut bacteria to function properly and to keep us healthy from the more dangerous pathogens.»