Sentences with phrase «human carriers»

Such dramatic effects on brain size and function are unlikely in human carriers of BRCA1 mutations, the authors of the study note, but they propose the findings could shed light on the gene's role in brain evolution.

Other researchers echo his warnings against exaggerating the effects of the mutation in human carriers, pointing out that there are probably around 100,000 carriers in Finland, but only a fraction of these have turned or will ever turn to violence.

Vaccinating great apes against Ebola in preserves where the animals might encounter human carriers makes sense.

The resulting animals had one copy of the normal gene and one of the defective gene, like human carriers of CF.

HUMANS AND PARASITES I read with interest in Mary Carmichael's «Halting the World's Most Lethal Parasite» the idea of vaccinating mosquitoes by using a human carrier to pass the vaccine on to the mosquito.

That helps the argument that Europeans carried the bug to Mexico, potentially through livestock or human carriers.

Veterinary researchers postulate that animals can be carriers of the bacteria and transfer it to humans, but it is much more likely for the animal to become colonized by a human carrier than the latter.