Sentences with phrase «for emerging pathogens»

And it's downright impossible to check for emerging pathogens.

Consider Chan Zuckerberg's Biohub, which is embracing big hairy audacious projects like mapping every cell in the human body (with university partners Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF) and developing a «universal diagnostic test» and rapid - response team for emerging pathogens.

Not exact matches

«The other thing we're doing is continuing to survey for other emerging pathogens, some of them much less well known than these ones that the public at this point have heard a lot about.»

«What has emerged from our study as well as from other work on introgression is that interbreeding with archaic humans does indeed have functional implications for modern humans, and that the most obvious consequences have been in shaping our adaptation to our environment — improving how we resist pathogens and metabolize novel foods,» Kelso says.

The deadly pathogen first emerged in the West Nile district of Uganda in 1937, then lay dormant for about 20 years before it cropped up again in Israel in the 1950s and reappeared in Romania in 1996.

Globalization, changing climate, and the threat of drug resistance have conspired to set the stage for that perfect microbial storm: a situation in which an emerging pathogen — another HIV or smallpox, perhaps — might burst on the scene and kill millions before we can respond.

«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.

As more reports appear of a grim «post-antibiotic era» ushered in by the rise of drug - resistant bacteria, a new strategy for fighting infection is emerging that targets a patient's cells rather than those of the invading pathogens.

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.

Professor Barbara Schnierle, head of the section «AIDS, New and Emerging Pathogens» of the division Virology at the Paul - Ehrlich - Institut and her team have investigated whether smaller more specific and less complex - to - be produced parts of E2 would suffice for conferring a protective immune response.

Monoclonal antibodies, which bind to and neutralize specific pathogens and toxins, have emerged as one of the most promising treatments for Ebola patients.

Researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and in Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research Laboratory at the USDA - Agricultural Research Service in Ithaca, NY, are among many investigators working to find a solution, and their recent publication sheds light on an important strategy for controlling the spread of CLas.

The findings could point to new strategies for combating these established and emerging viral pathogens.

«Snake fungal disease identified in wild British snakes for first time: Study finds emerging fungal pathogen amongst European snake populations.»

«Our study suggests that chickens could be a major source for transmission of emerging MDR pathogen, H. pullorum, from poultry to humans,» the investigators concluded.

In the future, as new scientific discoveries elucidate important host - vector - pathogen interactions, novel ELSI issues might emerge; implications for individuals and society are as yet unknown and unpredictable.

Nanotheraputics for Antibiotic Resistent Emerging Bacterial pathogens (NAREB) European Research Infrastructures for Poverty Related Diseases (EURIPED) Biomarkers for enhanced vaccines immunosafety (BioVacSafe) European network of vaccine research and development TRANSVAC Advancing novel and promising TB vaccine candidates from discovery to preclinical and early clinical development (TBVAC2020)

KNOXVILLE — Amphibian declines and extinctions around the world have been linked to an emerging fungal disease called chytridiomycosis, but new research from the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) shows that another pathogen, ranavirus, may also contribute.

Flavivirus is an emerging and re-emerging zoonotic pathogen and BYD virus that causes severe egg - drop, could be disastrous for the duck industry.

This could be important for rapidly responding to newly emerging pathogens or to study pathogen biology that has been difficult to study experimentally.»

Dr. Lanteri was a lecturer in immunology and virology (specializing in HIV and emerging pathogens) for students attending the Master's degree program of biochemistry from the University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France.

Pathogens include those on the NIAID Category A-C agents as well as emerging and re-emerging infectious disease organisms, each year for a period of five years.

As a manufacturer of non-toxic ultraviolet germicidal (UVGI or UV) sanitizing technology for the animal care industry, PetAirapy works with Dr. Kowalski to identify new, existing, and emerging pathogens and how to quickly and safely eliminate them from the air and surfaces in animal care facilities and residences.

The CAPC recommends annual testing for tick - transmitted pathogens, «especially in regions where pathogens are endemic or emerging.»

[7:23 p.m. Updated David L. Smith, an associate professor at the Emerging Pathogens Institute of the University of Florida, visiting scholar at Resources for the Future and an author of the Nature paper, weighed in with a strong defense of the paper in a comment, which I've reproduced as a separate document for easier reading.