Sentences with phrase «identify known viruses»

While there are techniques to identify known viruses, such as high throughput sequencing or high density microarrays, identifying truly novel virions could pose a problem, the authors write.

Not exact matches

-- ZIKA: Florida public health investigators have identified 10 additional Zika cases in the Miami area, bringing the total to 14 in the first known outbreak of the virus to be caused by mosquitoes in the continental U.S., Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Monday.

The $ 1.2 billion project aims to identify roughly 70 percent of these potential threats within the next 10 years, focusing on animals in places known to be hot spots for the emergence of human - infecting viruses.

We also sequenced 35 samples from suspected EVD cases that tested negative for EBOV; genomic analysis identified other known pathogens, including Lassa virus, HIV - 1, enterovirus A, and malaria parasites (fig.

Arnold and collaborators then devised a way to make these WGM biosensors sensitive enough to identify even the smallest individual bio-particles from the RNA virus MS2 to single molecules down to 6 zepto - grams (6x10 - 21grams), below the mass of all known cancer markers.

After eight weeks, they harvested all the viruses in the mice's feces, and identified the viral genes present by comparing them with a large database of known genes.

Bacteriologist Bernard La Scola first identified Mimivirus, the largest known virus, in 2003.

Hospitals in Greece have identified H1N1 swine flu in two students who had no contact with known cases of the virus and had not been in countries with widespread infection.

But the newly identified virus, known as the Cafeteria roenbergensis virus, is a pack rat: It lugs around a staggering 730,000 base pairs of DNA, including more than 500 gene - like regions, researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Published Thursday January 21st, 2016 in the journal Cell Reports, a team from Cardiff University's Systems Immunity Research Institute identify a molecule in the body — known as L - selectin — which directs the body's killer T cells to the site of a virus.

Proteomics identified peptides described from a variety of bee viruses, as well nine species of Nosema: N. apis, N. bombycis, N. locustae (now known as Antonospora locustae), N. tricoplusiae, N. BZ - 2006B, N. BZ - 2006d, N. granulosis, N. empoascae, N. putellae, plus a collection of unspecified Nosema peptides.

One of its key cells is known as the Natural Killer (NK) cells, which identify and eliminate those cells that are infected with viruses or transformed by cancer.

By December, 1994, Don Ganem knew his team would not be the first to identify a new virus behind a puzzling cancer in gay men.Scientists at Columbia University had recently pulled pieces of viral...

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Instead, the researchers developed a high - throughput selection assay, CREATE (Cre REcombinase - based AAV Targeted Evolution), that allowed them to test millions of viruses in vivo simultaneously and to identify those that were best at entering the brain and delivering genes to a specific class of brain cells known as astrocytes.

Identified in 1964, feline leukemia virus (FeLV) is now known to be one of the most important infectious causes of illness in cats worldwide.

Since the virus, known as H3N8, was first identified in 2004, thousands of dogs in 38 states have become sick with the flu, and veterinarians say that number continues to climb.