Sentences with phrase «infected by a piece»

Back on Earth, a homely xenobiologist named Hector (Peter Sarsgaard), who happens to be the exquisitely improbable son of a John - Ensign - pompadoured Senator (Tim Robbins), has been infected by a piece of Parallax, and begins discovering powers of his own: telepathy, telekinesis, and a tendency toward grotesque head - bloat.

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Hamster cells are unable to be infected by JSRV, but if the cells harbor a piece of human DNA that contains the viral receptor, the cells become susceptible to the virus.

Nineteen new pieces of DNA — left by viruses that first infected our ancestors hundreds of thousands of years ago — have just been found, lurking between our own genes.

At the San Diego Zoo, a rare, unusually sociable albino silverback gorilla named George encounters one of these pieces of space debris and in the process finds himself infected by a strange green mist.

As New York City grapples with tracing the contacts of Craig Spencer, a young physician infected with the Ebola virus, It's worth drawing attention to two worthy efforts to tamp down unreasoned fears — President Obama's White House embrace of Nina Pham, the Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola while treating a dying patient, and David Ropeik's fine piece on the perils posed by Ebola fears, published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

The researchers exposed the antivirus programs to 19 pieces of malware apiece, twice each: first by installing each program on a system that was already infected; second by disabling the program, infecting the machine and then re-enabling the antivirus program.

STDs caused by viruses include herpes and genital warts, and the viruses that cause them aren't even technically living organisms — they are pieces of genetic information that are able to infect a host cell.