Sentences with phrase «infected humans called»

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Shukla and colleagues discovered that a small drug molecule called BX795, which is sold to labs for use in experiments, helped clear HSV - 1 infection in cultured human corneal cells, in donated human corneas, and in the corneas of mice infected with HSV - 1.

We use viruses called phages that infect bacteria but not human cells.

In people infected with HIV who develop broadly neutralizing antibodies, this antibody region — called HCDR3 — has about 30 amino acids, about twice as long as what is usual for human antibodies.

Knowledge of this structure, called the cytoplasmic tail of gp41 protein, will help researchers further understand how the virus infects human cells and how progeny viruses are assembled and released from infected cells.

The cholera bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, infects humans by releasing a protein called the «cholera toxin.»

A type of the disease called variant CJD in humans results from eating meat infected with mad cow disease.

But to rid infected cells of HIV, Temple University researchers Kamel Khalili and Wenhui Hu customized a new gene - editing method called CRISPR to snip out the entire HIV genome without harming any human genes.

Garcez and her colleagues at the Instituto D'Or in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil are starting experiments in which they will infect so - called cerebral organoids — tiny models of the developing human brain — with Zika virus and see whether their development is affected.

Of the three strains of HIV known to infect humans, we know that two — the one causing the global AIDS epidemic and another that has infected a small number of people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIV.

Erlacher and colleagues isolated HSCs from mice and infected them with a genetically engineered adenovirus that transiently produces a human protein called BCL - XL that inhibits BIM and BMF.

Shukla and colleagues looked at human corneal cells infected with HSV - 1 and saw that an enzyme called heparanase became significantly upregulated and activated in cells just after infection, and remained upregulated well after the initial infection.

Some have argued that a predecessor to the parasite must have infected the last common ancestor to humans and chimps, 6 million or 7 million years ago, and then co-evolved when Homo sapiens stepped onto the world stage in a process called cospeciation.

Krause found that the bacteria in the skeletons were closely related to a TB strain called Mycobacterium pinnipedii, which infects sea lions and seals, and not to the strains infecting humans today.

Forty years ago Levine was one of a tiny cadre of researchers doing so - called human challenge studies — intentionally infecting people with V. cholerae and other pathogens to test drugs and vaccines.

A new study has found that nearly half of camels in parts of Kenya have been infected by the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and calls for further research into the role they might play in the transmission of this emerging disease to humans.

For eons, bacteria have battled particularly tiny viruses called bacteriophages, or phages for short, which infect and kill bacteria but leave humans and other animals alone.

Researchers are reporting what they say is the most compelling evidence, to date, that the infectious proteins called prions that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or «mad cow» disease, have infected humans, causing fatal brain degeneration.

When EBV infects human immune cells, a protein produced by the virus — EBNA2 — recruits human proteins called transcription factors to bind to regions of both the EBV genome and the cell's own genome.

Despite its name, pseudo-rabies, also called «the mad itch,» is not related to rabies and does not infect humans, but to wild canines, including coyotes and foxes, the disease is fatal, so wildlife managers want to ensure that they eliminate as many hogs as possible.

Lyme disease is an infection caused by a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi that's spread to humans by infected black - legged ticks, commonly known as deer ticks.

Lyme is caused by a bacteria called Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted by an infected tick that feeds on any dog, human, or mammal.

The specific mite that causes sarcoptic mange on dogs, called Sarcoptes scabiei, will also infect humans, cats and ferrets, although it prefers dogs.

The zoonotic disease called toxoplasmosis is spread primarily through contact with the ground outside or the more common contact with undercooked meat but this disease can also infect humans through feces and the litter box — NOT the cat itself.

Toxoplasmosis has been linked to an anger - management behavior called intermittent explosive disorder, and infected humans are twice as likely to be involved in a car accident.