Sentences with phrase «in giant viruses»

While sifting through metagenomic sequence datasets for a U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Community Science Program project, researchers identified genome sequences typically found in giant viruses.

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We've got a few hundred years at best, of scientific observation, that has now told us that one giant, explosive, random event started a chain reaction that, over billions of years resulted in humans, and flowers, and viruses, and dinosaurs.

In 2009, another giant virus called Marseillevirus was identified.

Two newly discovered giant viruses have the most comprehensive toolkit for assembling proteins found in any known virus.

In addition to sequencing the woolly mammoth genome, Hendrik has reconstructed the diets of extinct giant sloths, debunked a hypothesis about the origin of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sequenced the genome of the bacterium that caused Black Death.

In the winter of 2009, people living near a giant industrial pig farm in La Gloria, Mexico, reportedly became ill with a severe respiratory viruIn the winter of 2009, people living near a giant industrial pig farm in La Gloria, Mexico, reportedly became ill with a severe respiratory viruin La Gloria, Mexico, reportedly became ill with a severe respiratory virus.

The so - called STEP trial, sponsored by pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. and the federally funded HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), was the first to test the idea of stimulating the immune system's killer T cells to hunt for the virus more aggressively, in this case using a weakened form of the cold virus to carry three genes from HIV.

Instead, the team announced in March, they simply warmed the frozen soil and added amoebas, common hosts for giant viruses.

With a diameter in the region of a micrometer and a genome incorporating more than 1,100 genes, these giant viruses, which infect amoebas of the Acanthamoeba genus, had already largely encroached on areas previously thought to be the exclusive domain of bacteria.

Detailed analysis has shown that these first two Pandoraviruses have virtually nothing in common with previously characterized giant viruses.

In the article published in Science, the researchers announced they had discovered two new giant viruseIn the article published in Science, the researchers announced they had discovered two new giant virusein Science, the researchers announced they had discovered two new giant viruses:

In a study led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, a new group of giant viruses has been uncovered after sifting through complex genetic datasets.

A group of giant viruses called Mimiviruses was first discovered in 2003, and a handful of such groups have been reported since.

This is unusual because until now, all giant viruses had been recovered with Acanthamoeba (amoebas found in soils and fresh waters), which was not seen with the Klosneuviruses.

Knowing how giant viruses impact microbial survival and community interactions is relevant to U.S. Department of Energy missions in bioenergy and environment.

Some scientists have blamed a lethal virus or climate change for the annihilation of giant vertebrates in America.

Genome studies suggest giant viruses and their «virophages» may be common in the oceans.

Scientists typically don't classify viruses as living organisms, but giant viruses like these, with their own protein - making machinery and other functions normally carried out in living cells, blur the lines between what's alive and what isn't.

The unique ability among them to encode proteins involved in translation (typically DNA to RNA to protein) piqued researchers» interests as to the origin of giant viruses.

The recent discovery of virophages inside the giant viruses, which in turn infect amoeba, has led to speculation about their origin and their relationship to other viruses and small transposable genetic elements.

The discovery in 2003 of giant viruses with hundreds or even thousands of genes shattered the existing definition of living organisms3.

Although giant viruses almost always target amoebae, Christelle Desnues, a virologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research in Marseilles, last year discovered signs that another giant virus, Marseillevirus, had infected an 11 - month - old boy.

A newfound pair of giant viruses have massive genomes and the most complete resources for building proteins ever seen in the viral world.

In what seems like a plot straight out of a low - budget science - fiction film, scientists have revived a giant virus that was buried in Siberian ice for 30,000 years — and it is still infectiouIn what seems like a plot straight out of a low - budget science - fiction film, scientists have revived a giant virus that was buried in Siberian ice for 30,000 years — and it is still infectiouin Siberian ice for 30,000 years — and it is still infectious.

Claverie and Abergel have helped to discover other so - called giant viruses — including the first, called Mimivirus, in 2003, and two others, known as Pandoraviruses, last year (see «Giant viruses open Pandora's box&raqgiant viruses — including the first, called Mimivirus, in 2003, and two others, known as Pandoraviruses, last year (see «Giant viruses open Pandora's box&raqGiant viruses open Pandora's box»).

In addition, recent findings about large DNA viruses have led to hypotheses about the role of RNA and DNA viruses as precursors to single - celled microbes with and without nuclei, and giant viruses as the descendants of eukaryotes through reductive evolution (Charles Siebert, Discover, March 2006; and GiantVirus.org).

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Developed by Misfits Attic (a studio led by Tim Keenan, who also made A Virus Named TOM), Duskers is a game in which you pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.You are a drone operator, surrounded by technology that acts as your only eyes and ears to the outside world.