Sentences with phrase «for giant viruses»

Instead, the team announced in March, they simply warmed the frozen soil and added amoebas, common hosts for giant viruses.

Not exact matches

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Two newly discovered giant viruses have the most comprehensive toolkit for assembling proteins found in any known virus.

The so - called STEP trial, sponsored by pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. and the federally funded HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), was the first to test the idea of stimulating the immune system's killer T cells to hunt for the virus more aggressively, in this case using a weakened form of the cold virus to carry three genes from HIV.

While sifting through metagenomic sequence datasets for a U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Community Science Program project, researchers identified genome sequences typically found in giant viruses.

Recently discovered giant, amoeba - infecting viruses blur the line between life and nonlife — although they rely on their hosts for essential biological functions, the bacteria - sized viruses have complex genomes.

Some scientists have blamed a lethal virus or climate change for the annihilation of giant vertebrates in America.

The predicted hosts for the Klosneuviruses are protists (single - celled eukaryotic (nucleus - containing) microorganisms) and while their direct impacts on protists are not yet worked out, these giant viruses are thought to have a large impact on these protists that help regulate the planet's biogeochemical cycles.

Although giant viruses almost always target amoebae, Christelle Desnues, a virologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research in Marseilles, last year discovered signs that another giant virus, Marseillevirus, had infected an 11 - month - old boy.

A newfound pair of giant viruses have massive genomes and the most complete resources for building proteins ever seen in the viral world.

In what seems like a plot straight out of a low - budget science - fiction film, scientists have revived a giant virus that was buried in Siberian ice for 30,000 years — and it is still infectious.

Russian Antivirus giant Kaspersky has uncovered a virus for the Google mobile OS named Trojan - SMS.

Towards the end of week news came from Russian Antivirus giant Kaspersky, who uncovered a virus for the Google mobile Android OS named Trojan - SMS.