Sentences with phrase «to infect other cells»

The human immune system is adept at recognizing antigens it has met before: Antibodies snap onto the projecting viral proteins and prevent the organism from infecting other cells.

«But I don't think anyone had fully appreciated the sheer number of parasites that are free and able to infect other cells in the vasculature.»

This interplay is important for the virus to break free of the host cell's plasma membrane and continue infecting other cells.

The compound 3 - deazauridine stopped HIV by creating so many mutations in the virus that the virus was no longer able to spread throughout the body by infecting other cells.

«While our studies were conducted in the laboratory, a clinical trial would involve using such drugs to wake up the virus while the patient continues taking ART to ensure that the reactivated virus can not infect other cells,» explained Dr. Kaufmann.

Finally, those new proteins and new HIV RNA are pushed out of the cell, forming new HIV capable of infecting other cells, and the process begins all over again.

This prevents the bug from reproducing in the cell and then infecting other cells.

The idea was to pinpoint how the milk, a terrific germ - fighter, blocks bacteria from infecting other cells.

The newly created viral bits assemble and, voilà, more virus arises, which also may infect other cells.

The virus needs this one lipid to form the new particle and infect other cells,» Stahelin said.

Using confocal microscopy and fluorescently labeled proteins, the scientists discovered that BAG3 appeared to be sequestering VP40 in the cell's cytoplasm away from the plasma membrane where the viral particles would need to go in order to bud off and spread to infect other cells.

It makes copies of the virus» genetic material — the viral RNA — to package into new viruses that can infect other cells; and it reads out the instructions in that genetic material to make viral messenger RNA, which directs the infected cell to produce the proteins the virus needs.

After doing so, many viruses exit the cell in a process called «budding» in order to infect other cells and spread.

By blocking prM cleavage, you clearly diminish the virus's ability to infect other cells.»

A malaria parasite, filling this red blood cell, separates into smaller components (four round shapes bordered by whitish walls) before bursting out and infecting other cells.

Researchers have discovered crucial new processes that allow malaria parasites to escape red blood cells and infect other cells, offering potential new treatment targets.

Using this system, the speed at which a virus can reproduce and infect other cells is amazing.

But instead of churning out new viruses that infect other cells, the infected sex cell does something else: It becomes a new koala.

During most viral infections, the virus enters a lytic or «active» phase, in which the virus itself makes millions of new virus particles that then go on to infect other cells.

The virus can then be purified and used to infect other cells.

If treatment ends, the virus within latently infected CD4 cells uses the cell's own biochemical machinery to reactivate and begin replicating and infecting other cells.

Scientists found that it blocks the hemagglutinin enzyme in the virus which inhibits its ability to infect other cells.