Sentences with phrase «in human hosts»

Protozoan species of the genus Cryptosporidium, such as Cryptosporidium hominis and C. parvum, can cause diarrhea in human hosts who have ingested as few as 10 microscopic oocysts (egglike structures that are made of chitin, the same protein that forms the exoskeletons of ants and other insects) contained in feces or contaminated water.
The game starts before the Ishimura planet cracker mining ship was overrun by an alien plague causing severe psychosis and mutation in their human hosts.
Even worse, in human hosts, roundworms sometimes get lost and leave the intestine (this is known as «visceral larval migrans»), in which case the worms can wind up in the eye or brain, resulting in irreversible damage.
Pretty quickly, the film turns into a horror show, with the airborne, microscopic spores from a plant on the planet serving as the way those killer aliens end up in their human hosts (Scott offers a microscope - level shot of the infection entering a crewmember's body through his ear canal, which is simultaneously frightening and deviously amusing).
Today, most countries manage the disease with a drug that kills the parasite in human hosts.
Physician Barry Marshall of the University of Western Australia in Crawley led an international team that investigated how the bacterium evolves in a human host.
«The establishment of healthy microbial communities almost certainly requires chemical messaging between the species present in the human host,» says Texas A&M University biochemist Paul Straight, who studies interactions among bacteria.
He believes the emergence of a pandemic virus in a human host — through mutations or recombination with a human flu virus — is and will remain a very rare event.
The interaction between the human host and microbes reflects a unique exposure that not only can lead directly to disease expression, but also can lead to changes in human host phenotype that is not directly pathogenic.
Different T. gondii strains are associated with different virulence degrees and produce different flavors of the disease in the human host.
Understanding the genetic diversity in the human host, the parasite and the mosquito vector requires the coordinated effort of researchers around the world, and has a fundamental role to play in malaria control and elimination.
Discovering that this recombination occurs continuously when the parasites are in the human host may help to explain how the parasite can survive for many months inside infected people during the dry season, when there aren't many mosquitoes biting.
Infected patients are at - risk for long - term joint stiffness and pain, which increases the need to better understand the sequence diversity of these viruses and how any viral mutations affect the severity of disease in the human host.
While in the human host, this worm can grow up to one meter long, leading to extreme suffering.

Not exact matches

Zuckerberg, who hosted a live, hour - long broadcast while waiting for his dinner to reach the perfect temperature, went on to list ways he believed AI would improve — and is already improving — human lives in different ways.
In the beginning, Westworld «hosts» engage with humans by spitting out canned responses that are personalized based on the interaction.
Jason Silva, the Emmy - nominated host of the Emmy - nominated show Brain Games on NatGeo, posted a 53 - second video on his Facebook page in which he holds a baby and waxes philosophical about how human beings are created.
To help employers across the country make sense of the changes in the ACA regulations, Paycom, a provider of human capital management technology, will host a free webinar — Think Your Business is ACA Compliant?
Private equity firm Apollo's party, hosted in a Greek restaurant near Central Park, featured «live statues»: humans standing completely still, painted to look like marble.
Specifically, the program will include: hosting of the entrepreneurial team in INTRASOFT premises, business and technology focused guidance and consulting compatible with the team's activities, offered by INTRASOFT staff, as well as business communication services and specialist consultancy services (on administration, legal and financial issues and human resources management).
Former late - night host David Letterman excoriated Donald Trump in a brief interview in the New York Times Friday, calling the Republican presidential candidate a «damaged human being» who should be «shunned.»
Adobe has unveiled a host of technologies that it is currently working on in its research and developments labs, including tech that can distinguish real humans...
@Chuckles There are bound to be many semi-intelligent species of life in the universe similar to us in that their organic brains are also subject to a host of perceptual biases left over from previous steps in their evolutionary progression to that state, just like we have as humans.
One virus - particle doesn't change color, but as it procreates mutations in that process can make the resulting child - virus differ from the parent - virus, so that the child - virus is capable of infecting a human as well as the original host thereby opening the possibility for a new human disease.
A host of scholars — believers, agnostics and atheists alike — put the number of people killed in all the holy wars, Crusades, inquistions, etc. — IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY — at ~ 50 - 75 millioin all the holy wars, Crusades, inquistions, etc. — IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY — at ~ 50 - 75 millioIN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY — at ~ 50 - 75 million.
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.
It is salutary, indeed, that the findings of the mainstream of empirical research in psychology are now being applied to resolving a host of severe human problems.
Our own Ralph Hancock, in conjunction with the brand new John Adams Center, is hosting a conference entitled God and Human Rights: Are Faith or Foundations Necessary?
Much as we may dislike the doctrine of original sin — and indeed it has often been formulated in a way that must antagonize any man of sense and good will — there would appear to be in human beings the seeds of selfishness, arrogance, brutality, callousness, the lust for power, jealousy, hatred and all the rest of the miserable host of evil.
The argument that life begins at conception is absurd in that what should be said is parasitic life begins at conception, actual human life only becomes a valid argument when the fetus is able to live outside the womb, prior to that the life is basically in the hands of the host — mother.
Decide to host an awareness or fundraising campaign in January, the designated Global Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
Personally I see more value in appealing to human decency and modern culture than to attempting to make the moral views of iron age civilizations entrenched in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host of other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern society.
You're right... a whole host... political, social, emotional, physical, mental... in other words, it's being human in the disquise of being something special and «unique»; an odd need we humans seem to have.
As someone who has taken more than 25,000 calls from his listeners (more than 7 million tune in on a weekly basis) the stories and quirks that make us human are also a source of endless fascination for the radio host.
Now we do not have to «contend with spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places», 10 but with the dark side of the human condition.
In this decision the primary orientation toward giving or getting comes to the fore, and with it a host of consequences and applications in a great variety of more specific human concerns, as indicated in the preceding paragrapIn this decision the primary orientation toward giving or getting comes to the fore, and with it a host of consequences and applications in a great variety of more specific human concerns, as indicated in the preceding paragrapin a great variety of more specific human concerns, as indicated in the preceding paragrapin the preceding paragraph.
Like their prophet Descartes, transhumanists think of the human being as a consciousness hosted in a body, and of the body as a machine that the will can manipulate by means of reason.
This is particularly relevant when considering honesty in robots: «If robots are going to be present in everyday situations, then there is a host of social norms which humans know about but which a robot won't.
I work in the real world, at a real job, with a nice, professional gay boss who is an excellent leader and human being, there are a whole host of anti-discrimination laws in my state and I could get written up and fired for being unprofessional (as could anyone else).
The Crossroads Cultural Center and the American Bible Society host Dr. Giorgio Ambrosio and Stephen M. Barr on what The God Particle can tell us about human beings and our place in the universe.
Humans selected for speed, resulting in the Greyhound, smelling and tracking ability (Bloodhounds) ability to herd sheep (Collies and Australian Shepherds) appearance (Dalmatians and Pomeranians) size (Chihuahuas and Great Danes) and a host of other traits.
Unfortunately, at this formative stage in their lives one viewpoint is pushed to the fore on campus, and that's the opinion that euthanasia, abortion, embryonic stem cell research and a host of other practices which strip humans of their most fundamental right are good things.
Until recently, half of the human race died from infectious causes before adulthood, providing strong selective pressure for genetic alleles that enhance host defence but why are the genetic alleles that are most frequently associated with depression so common in the modern gene pool?
The immediacy and intimacy of communication by television and the host's presence in the viewer's home has meant that Christian television programs have been able to tap human needs and concerns which would otherwise go untouched by the church or other social agencies.
Criswell's ecumenical openness, however tentative, presaged and in some measure precipitated the major realignment that has brought Southern Baptists and Catholics together on a host of moral issues, the most important of which is the sanctity of human life.
Also in the mix of emerging robot trends are collaborative robots like Rethink Robotics» Baxter, designed to operate safely with humans on a production line and trainable to perform a host of tasks.
Specifically, when capsaicin frequently binds to receptors within the human central nervous system's TRPV1 channel (the sensory receptor system for pain and heat detection), these receptors deplete and this depletion results in a whole host of benefits for the central nervous system at large, including terminating cancer cells, increasing the metabolic rate and digestive efficiency, increasing circulatory blood flow, and combatting inflammation, and making you feel better about the world.
Meanwhile, the Foodex Engage Lounge, in partnership with Teknomek, will host more than 30 sessions over three days on issues such as how to reduce the risk of bacterial contamination; hygiene strategies to manage the «human factor»; how plastic is enhancing hygienic routines; and balancing occupational health with hygiene.
These kids often also made good grades — which tells us that good grades can belie a whole host of problems — but the human being earning those grades was often fragile, weak, lost, and in my view is likely to one day be resentful of the very parents who were «helping» in the name of love.
Our shared passions have compelled us to create a new kind of conference - to host an on - going conversation that explores what we see as the foundation of infant, child, family and community health: the mechanism of human bonding - how it works, why it's important, and how to develop, encourage and support it in our growing families and communities.
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