Sentences with phrase «how human pathogens»

«Their silent but vast and ongoing war underpins everything from how global nutrient cycles — which rely on bacteria to produce half of Earth's biomass — operate, to how human pathogens evolve,» he says.

Not exact matches

Some crop — and even human — diseases might be stopped dead in their tracks if researchers can harness a new discovery about how pathogens first infect their hosts

«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.

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Magee - Womens Research Institute (MWRI) have devised a cell - based model of the human placenta that could help explain how pathogens that cause birth defects, such as Zika virus, cross from mother to unborn child.

The evolution of the SARS virus — like flu, an RNA virus — is a vivid example of how a pathogen incubated in the markets of Guangdong managed to jump species and adapt to humans.

Haddow, who studies how pathogens survive in the jungle and emerge when humans encroach, had a great personal interest in Zika: His grandfather, Alexander Haddow, was one of three scientists who had isolated the virus from a rhesus monkey in the Zika Forest near Entebbe, Uganda, in 1947 and described it in a paper in 1952.

«The molecule is essential for growth in a wide range of bacteria, including many human pathogens, and we are only in the early stages of understanding how it controls important processes in bacteria.»

And Alisa «Harley» Newton, a pathologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, discusses how vets figured out that a pathogen attacking humans was in fact West Nile Virus.

Organoids can be used to study how pathogens interact with human tissues.

In the meantime, we need to keep studying not only how the ticks are adapting but also understand how the pathogens associated with these ticks are changing and the potential for elevated risk for humans and animals.»

When the research team activated the human T and B cells, simulating how these cells would respond when presented with a pathogen, the Xist clouds reappeared.

The work began, according to Balloux, when the pair decided to combine their data sets on human populations and pathogens to see if they could determine «when Helicobacter pylori first infected humans and [if this could] shed light on when and how anatomically modern humans colonized the world.»

Efforts to develop such a vaccine have been significantly hindered by complexities in how the human immune system reacts to the bacterial pathogen.

Writing in the journal PLoS Pathogens, the team led by Professor Sachdev Sidhu, of the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research and Department of Molecular Genetics, describe how they turned ubiquitin, a staple protein in every cell, into a drug capable of thwarting MERS in cultured human cells.

To test the homing beacon — or «Alphamer» — against live strep bacteria, Mullis enlisted the help of Victor Nizet, MD, professor of pediatrics and pharmacy at UC San Diego, whose laboratory studies how pathogens interact with the human immune system.

«Clarifying how disease outbreaks subside will help us predict, and respond to, other emerging pathogens in plants, wildlife — and in humans,» Voyles said.

Biography Dr. Wood is a disease ecologist interested in how parasites and pathogens respond to human impacts on the environment.

She continued describing human history with pathogens, showing how signals of ancient, pathogen - driven selection can be used to understand immune response.

Scientists at Imperial College London have become the first in the world to test how pathogens interact with artificial human organs.

Researchers here are cataloguing what makes cancer cells dangerous down at the level of individual genetic changes, how and why pathogens like malaria evolve to be more (or less) harmful and how humans adapt to those changes.

Vegetables do contain toxins to humans, but also toxins to gut pathogens and various micronutrients, so it is not obvious how the balance works out.

Implications of the current findings for understanding culture — gene coevolution of human brain and behaviour as well as how this coevolutionary process may contribute to global variation in pathogen prevalence and epidemiology of affective disorders, such as anxiety and depression, are discussed.