Sentences with phrase «hijacks cellular machinery»

Now, a research team headed by investigators from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is the first to identify a mechanism by which influenza A, a family of pathogens that includes the most deadly strains of flu worldwide, hijacks cellular machinery to replicate.

It hijacks the cellular machinery of its host to copy its genetic material and spread new viral particles.

HIV - 1 integrates its own genome into the genome of human immune system cells known as CD4 + T cells, hijacking their cellular machinery to make more copies of itself.

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As little more than free - ranging bundles of genetic material, viruses desperately need to hijack their hosts» cellular machinery and resources to replicate, over and over again.

Influenza viruses can hijack host cellular machinery to help mutated viral proteins fold and function.