Sentences with phrase «in animal hosts»

«This study fills in a huge gap in what we know about the diversity of coronaviruses in animal hosts,» says first author Simon Anthony, assistant professor of Epidemiology in CII.

Entirely new versions of the virus can emerge as it mixes and blends in its animal hosts.

Morse is credited with creating the term emerging infectious diseases in the late 1980s to explain viruses that can exist for years in an animal host without causing illness.

Ding joined the faculty at UCR in December of 2000 to test the other half of his hypothesis: does the B2 protein of Flock house virus suppress RNAi in its animal host?

They are extremely simple, composed only of RNA enveloped in a fatty membrane, and they all must develop first in an animal host — often rodents or bats — and are spread by insects such as ticks or mosquitoes.

Therapeutic MAbs are typically made in animal host cells and assembled into Y - shaped complexes.

«If we can tell the human iPSCs in an animal host to develop into a kidney or other organ, for example, it could provide an entirely new source for transplant tissues,» says Izpisua Belmonte.

Not exact matches

Here's how it works: Scientists identify the desired genes in a plant or animal and insert them into a host such as yeast.

Daily Telegraph May 7th 2007 Chief contributor: Lisa Gregoire OF EVANGELICAL INTEREST • Radio Four's Sundayprogramme on 20th May last hosted a discussion on the government's «U-turn» in favour of the creation of human - animal hybrid embryos for medical research.

Even though real animal experts called this cruelty, host Paul Rosolie claimed that this was all being done in an effort to somehow save the rainforest.

Two people cash have differing opinions on abortion, h0m0s3xuality, capital punishment, women's rights, race equality, the treatment of children, animals, and the environment, plus a host of other topics, and still be justified in calling themselves «Christian».

Where is the clear line in a progression from (1) using animal insulin to treat diabetes, to (2) using gene remodeling techniques to grow insulin in a host bacterium that will reproduce rapidly and from which a plentiful supply of insulin can be harvested, to (3) genetic surgery to replace the defective gene in a person diagnosed as diabetic, to (4) genetic surgery immediately after fertilization in order to replace the defective gene and alter the germ cells which would otherwise have transmitted the disease to one's offspring?

Chairman Jim Perdue and Dr. Bruce Stewart - Brown, senior vice president of food safety, quality and live operations, hosted a press conference at the Redbury Hotel in New York this morning to unveil the new plan titled 2016 and Beyond: Next Generation of Perdue Commitment to Animal Care.

When animals consume vitamin K1, their tissues convert part of it into vitamin K2, which fulfills a host of physiological functions in the animal that we are only now beginning to understand.

That's why I get excited about any chance to meet fellow food bloggers in a more intimate setting, like our Eat, Sea, Retreat hosted by the gorgeous Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California (my state spirit animal!)

While the worker shares were holding down the fort in the field, Nick was hosting a visit from the Food Animal Concerns Trust.

We will send everything you need to host a successful Night Night Package assembly event (new children's books, new blankets, new stuffed animals, tote bags, age tags, note cards to include a personal note to child, introductory video) to any venue in the country.

Welles Park also hosts a plethora of toddler concerts / animal encounters, Shakespeare in the Park performances and other concerts and movies all summer long.

In addition to its antique homes and buildings, heirloom gardens, and heritage breed animals, Old Sturbridge Village offers a host of classic summertime activities that are especially popular time with families.

Host your own party at Smolak Farms in our awesome animal / playground area.

Recently, one of our momstown team members hosted a Pony birthday party (animal themed) in their very own backyard for her child.

Garnar hosted his address at the Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville Monday night.

For reproductive cloning - which creates animals with an identical genetic make - up to an already existing animal - the embryo must then be transferred to a host body, in which to grow.

The Hempstead Town Animal Shelter is hosting a seminar in an effort to find foster families and volunteers who can assist in caring for homeless animals.

In January they reported a host of unusual animals living near the vent, including a seven - armed sea star, a «ghostly white» octopus, and a new species of yeti crab, its underside covered in hairIn January they reported a host of unusual animals living near the vent, including a seven - armed sea star, a «ghostly white» octopus, and a new species of yeti crab, its underside covered in hairin hairs.

Animal studies have started to show that the microbiome, from its staging ground in the bowel, can influence the development of its host's brain.

This March it found signs of white - nose infected animals in two small caves — one hosting fewer than 10 bats and the other with around 60.

The new study offers «yet another piece of information» that selecting for changes in behavior can trigger a host of other changes in domesticated animals, says Greger Larson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.

Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host cells.

Viruses like avian flu or the animal coronavirus that mutated into SARS must be relatively benign in their original hosts to spread from one animal in the wild to the next.

Once inside a host animal the two viruses swapped genetic material, resulting in a new form of SIV that eventually crossed into humans.

These animals are common hosts for the influenza virus, which comes in a wide range of strengths and types — some of which can infect humans.

Michael Kelemen, a recruiter and host of the Recruiting Animal show, a call - in career development and recruiting radio show on BlogTalkRadio, told Science Careers, «These days it's about being first to hear about new jobs and making yourself stand out as a job candidate.

In the tropics, disease sources have included a host of wild animals, most notably the nonhuman primates.

Since the sexual reproduction stage of malaria only occurs in insects, Poinar said in the new study that they must be considered the primary hosts of the disease, not the vertebrate animals that they infect with disease - causing protozoa.

Wild boar and red deer are key hosts of bovine tuberculosis — a chronic, infectious disease mainly caused by Mycobacterium bovis — in southern Europe, with the incidence of TB in these animals particularly high in certain areas of Spain.

They are already lurking in the environment, and the leap from an animal to a human can be just a matter of time and an organism's ability to shift from one host to another.

This may be why host animals tolerate protozoans such as T. muris living in their intestines.

This parasite is commonly found in the intestines of mice, and the researchers observed that its presence raised the levels of pro-inflammatory T cells and cytokines in the host animal's gut.

All Gordon's protégés share an interest in following the molecular cross talk among resident microbes and their host when they add back a component of an animal's normal microbiota.

However, the animal kingdom is host to an incredible diversity of sperm forms, explains Scott Pitnick, the lead author of a new study in Nature and Weeden Professor of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Others, such as Sarcocystis parasites, first live in an intermediate host, the prey animal of the wolf, and reach their final host, the wolf, only if the intermediate host has been consumed by the final host.

Host - targeted bait boxes take the common rodent bait box design and add an extra element: a cloth wick soaked in tick - killing insecticide that the animal must contact on its way in and out of the box.

They go on to suggest that «lowering levels of TNF may be an effective strategy in improving host defense against S. pneumoniae in older adults,» and that, «although it may be counterintuitive to limit inflammatory responses during a bacterial infection, [some existing] clinical observations and our animal model indicate that anti-bacterial strategies need to be tailored to the age of the host.»

In this episode, Liz Johnson and Felicity Arengo from the American Museum of Natural History take Scientific American podcast host Steve Mirsky for a walk in the park — Central Park — to talk about the spring bird migration and the role that Central Park and other green spaces plays in the lives of birds and other animalIn this episode, Liz Johnson and Felicity Arengo from the American Museum of Natural History take Scientific American podcast host Steve Mirsky for a walk in the park — Central Park — to talk about the spring bird migration and the role that Central Park and other green spaces plays in the lives of birds and other animalin the park — Central Park — to talk about the spring bird migration and the role that Central Park and other green spaces plays in the lives of birds and other animalin the lives of birds and other animals.

It has been suspected in humans, and shown in animal models, that the host's immune responses can make disease worse.

It's also possible that Zika will find an animal host in the Western Hemisphere, providing the virus a way station of sorts until the human population is more susceptible again.

The new report describes experiments in mice showing how genetic variation in a host animal shapes the microbiome — a rich ecosystem of mostly beneficial microorgannisms that resides in the gut — and sets the table for the onset of metabolic disease.

As the microbes metabolize food, they produce an astonishing number of small molecules, chemicals and hormones that circulate in a host and can influence health in an animal.

Was it mutations in the genome of Y. pestis or changes in the susceptibility of animal or human hosts — or both?