Sentences with phrase «in human pathogens»

SSGCID's primary mission is to determine the 3D atomic structures of proteins and other molecules with an important biological role in human pathogens themselves, or molecules involved in host - pathogen interactions, by applying state - of - the art high - throughput (HTP) technologies and methodologies.

The emergence of antibiotic resistance in human pathogens has become a major threat to modern medicine and in particular hospitalized patients.

Proteins targeted for structure determination by SSGCID are selected for their biomedical relevance in human pathogens such as Ebola and Zika, as well as those responsible for tuberculosis, leprosy, malaria, and influenza.

One - hundred - ten of the genes had clear similarities in sequence to known antibiotic - resistance genes, the team discovered, and 18 of those were 100 % identical to genes found in human pathogens.

Not exact matches

Laurie Garrett, one of the globe's most gifted writers on global public health issues, has a timely and scary essay on foreignpolicy.com about the nasty norovirus plaguing athletes in the Olympic village — a bug one expert calls the «perfect human pathogen.»

Species commonly found in humans: Clostridium perfringens (potential pathogen), Clostridium difficile (potential pathogen), Clostridium tetani (potential pathogen; is only transiently associated with humans, does not colonize the intestines).

Species commonly found in humans: Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus aureus (potential pathogen).

Consider Chan Zuckerberg's Biohub, which is embracing big hairy audacious projects like mapping every cell in the human body (with university partners Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF) and developing a «universal diagnostic test» and rapid - response team for emerging pathogens.

That's why he spent $ 50 million of his own money developing the prototypes and testing them in Third World villages, and they work, and we have to get the word out because 50 percent of all human illness is caused by waterborne pathogens.

The human biochemical response to pathogens is linked with avoidance and alarm response mechanisms in the face of predators and other perceived dangers or stress.

When composting crop residues, manures or other agricultural wastes, it's necessary to achieve temperatures above 131 °F for a defined period of time in order to kill weed seeds and human pathogens.

Human milk banks refuse donations from any mother who has had a tattoo done in the past 12 months due to the risk of blood - born pathogens, such as hepatitis.

High levels of E. coli are considered an indicator of other pathogens found in human and animal waste.

Perhaps the other ingredients in leachate are toxic enough to kill human pathogens.

Other references cite that human milk components are, in vitro, able to degrade many pathogens including but not limited to N. gonorrheae, H. influenzae, V. cholera, H. pylori, S. flexneri, and B. pertussis.

Further, there are a great many parasitic forms, including pathogens in most plants and animals, humans included.

Some crop — and even human — diseases might be stopped dead in their tracks if researchers can harness a new discovery about how pathogens first infect their hosts

«What has emerged from our study as well as from other work on introgression is that interbreeding with archaic humans does indeed have functional implications for modern humans, and that the most obvious consequences have been in shaping our adaptation to our environment — improving how we resist pathogens and metabolize novel foods,» Kelso says.

«Norovirus is one of the deadliest human pathogens that we know the least about,» said first author Craig B. Wilen, MD, PhD, an instructor in pathology and immunology.

The evolution of the SARS virus — like flu, an RNA virus — is a vivid example of how a pathogen incubated in the markets of Guangdong managed to jump species and adapt to humans.

Transgenic antithrombin was intended to improve supply and address concerns about pathogens in the form of the drug isolated from human blood.

Since the beginning of the Industrial Age, humans have been perturbing the natural world in ways that bring us closer to the pathogens that kill us.

The larger lesson is that we are in a race everywhere to cut off the pathogen's access to human victims before it establishes a fast track in the local populations.

«It is just a range extension of a mosquito that has been shown to possibly be able to vector different human pathogens that we currently don't have [in British Columbia],» said Scott McMahon, one of the authors and national operations manager at Culex.

Researchers like Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, have found at least 868 human pathogens that infect both animals and humans, although some are not as fearsome as they seem.

New research published in ASM's Applied and Environmental Microbiology shows that pathogens can also jump the species barrier to move from humans to animals.

The boost in these human - associated microbes could increase transmission of potential pathogens and decrease exposure to potentially beneficial environmental microbes.

It should prompt donors and international organizations to ramp up their funding of efforts to control outbreaks of the H5N1 virus in poultry, and so give the virus fewer opportunities to evolve into a human pathogen, she says.

In dogs, which have been domesticated for over 17,000 years, there were 71 shared parasites and pathogens, and in the 11,000 year association between humans and cattle, 34 have accumulateIn dogs, which have been domesticated for over 17,000 years, there were 71 shared parasites and pathogens, and in the 11,000 year association between humans and cattle, 34 have accumulatein the 11,000 year association between humans and cattle, 34 have accumulated.

The newly discovered viruses appeared in every family or genus of RNA virus associated with vertebrate infection, including those containing human pathogens such as influenza virus.

Haddow, who studies how pathogens survive in the jungle and emerge when humans encroach, had a great personal interest in Zika: His grandfather, Alexander Haddow, was one of three scientists who had isolated the virus from a rhesus monkey in the Zika Forest near Entebbe, Uganda, in 1947 and described it in a paper in 1952.

The findings, reported in PLOS Pathogens, are likely to lead to human clinical trials of the vaccine.

The virus, which looks like a piece of yarn with a slight bend, is the only Ebola pathogen not known to cause disease in humans.

A recent study suggests a mystery pathogen acting in concert with human - induced stressors may be the culprits

What we discovered in Caulobacter also applies to important human pathogens,» says Jenal.

Studies seeking subtle signs of selection in the DNA of humans and other primates have identified dozens of genes, in particular those involved in host - pathogen interactions, reproduction, sensory systems such as olfaction and taste, and more.

«The molecule is essential for growth in a wide range of bacteria, including many human pathogens, and we are only in the early stages of understanding how it controls important processes in bacteria.»

Jingmenviruses were first described in 2014 and are related to flaviviruses — a large family of viruses that includes human pathogens such as yellow fever, West Nile and Japanese encephalitis viruses.

And Alisa «Harley» Newton, a pathologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, discusses how vets figured out that a pathogen attacking humans was in fact West Nile Virus.

«Despite the relatively low sample size of frozen products in our study, it is clear that commercial RMBDs may be contaminated with a variety of zoonotic bacterial and parasitic pathogens that may be a possible source of bacterial infections in pet animals and if transmitted pose a risk for human beings,» say the researchers.

Last September Lipkin announced the results of his analysis at a tightly controlled press conference: XMRV was not actually a human pathogen, he said, confirming an earlier report, but a man - made contaminant unwittingly manufactured in a lab in the 1990s.

The data can also reveal when changes in human conditions — such as improved sanitation — influenced infection rates more than a pathogen's innate traits.

To do this, the research team enrolled 65 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 50 years in the human challenge study — a type of research study in which individuals are exposed to disease - causing pathogens under carefully controlled conditions.

«This approach of «xenosurveillance» could detect pathogens before they spread to humans, as well as the emergence of new diseases in wild animals that may threaten their long - term survival.»

Trillions of microbes inhabit the human body, protecting us from pathogens and keeping our systems in tune.

Globalisation has resulted in the movement of humans and animals all across the world, bringing pathogens into contact with hosts that haven't had the opportunity to establish resistance.

«As far as I am aware, this is the first time that researchers have found that an invasive predator (such as the python) has caused an increase in contact between mosquitoes and hosts of a human pathogen,» said Nathan Burkett - Cadena, a faculty member with the UF / IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory in Vero Beach, Florida.

The KU Leuven team is currently examining whether other pathogens show a similar increase in tolerance and whether the same process of genetic adaptation takes place during the treatment of infections in human beings.

Nobody knows if adding the interleukin - 4 gene would have the same effect in a different pathogen, but «the question instantly became what would happen if somebody tried this with smallpox or other human viruses,» says Seamark.

One of these, Helicobacter pylori, is a pathogen that can cause stomach ulcers in humans and is the strongest known risk factor for gastric cancer.