Sentences with phrase «infecting cells in a lab»

After 381 days, this cow's antibodies prevented 96 percent of the 117 HIV types from infecting cells in a lab dish.

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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.

The researchers found that the protein, called VRC07 - αCD3, triggered the activation and killing of latently HIV - infected helper T cells when the cells were taken from patients on antiretroviral therapy and then incubated in the lab with the patients» own killer T cells.

At the Galveston National Laboratory, which houses a biosafety level 4 lab, researchers shut down experiments, euthanized infected animals, put pathogens in cold storage, and autoclaved cell cultures.

In collaboration with Ding, the lab of Olivier Voinnet at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich also reported in an accompanying paper the detection of viral siRNAs in cultured mouse embryonic stem cells infected by the Encephalomyocarditis viruIn collaboration with Ding, the lab of Olivier Voinnet at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich also reported in an accompanying paper the detection of viral siRNAs in cultured mouse embryonic stem cells infected by the Encephalomyocarditis viruin Zurich also reported in an accompanying paper the detection of viral siRNAs in cultured mouse embryonic stem cells infected by the Encephalomyocarditis viruin an accompanying paper the detection of viral siRNAs in cultured mouse embryonic stem cells infected by the Encephalomyocarditis viruin cultured mouse embryonic stem cells infected by the Encephalomyocarditis virus.

The implications were hardly lost on the Bethesda crowd: If the virus was transmitted in cell cultures in Ruscetti's lab, it could also be contaminating the nation's blood supply as a result of blood donations from unknowingly infected donors.

When Liesman infected human airway cells in the lab with this re-engineered virus, she saw infected cells ball up and puff out of the airway epithelium.

In this lung organoid grown in Hans Clevers's lab, cells colored green are infected with respiratory syncytial viruIn this lung organoid grown in Hans Clevers's lab, cells colored green are infected with respiratory syncytial viruin Hans Clevers's lab, cells colored green are infected with respiratory syncytial virus.

But even if XMRV is not a threat to human health, the fact that a retrovirus that can readily infect human cells was apparently generated by chance in the lab raises some interesting and potentially troubling issues.

The approach enabled a wide range of studies of human brain development, including implicating a new class of neural stem cell recently discovered by the lab in the evolutionary expansion of the human brain and identifying how the mosquito - borne Zika virus may contribute to microcephaly in infants infected in utero.

The findings — so far observed only in cells and minibrains grown in the lab — offer a possible explanation for the misshapen heads that are the hallmark of microcephaly, a condition that afflicts some babies infected with Zika.

In July labs at the University of California at San Francisco, University of Massachusetts Medical School, and MIT reported that they had used RNA - interference to arrest viral replication in cells infected with HIV and poliIn July labs at the University of California at San Francisco, University of Massachusetts Medical School, and MIT reported that they had used RNA - interference to arrest viral replication in cells infected with HIV and poliin cells infected with HIV and polio.

Johannes Scheid, a student in Nussenzweig's lab, isolated it several years ago from an HIV - infected patient whose immune system had an exceptional ability to neutralize HIV in the blood by preventing the virus from infecting and destroying a specific type of immune cells, called CD4 cells, in patients.

«This shows that the antibody not only can exert pressure on the virus, but also can shorten the survival of infected cells,» says first author Ching - Lan Lu, a visiting student in Dr. Nussenzweig's lab.

Studying a new type of pinhead - size, lab - grown brain made with technology first suggested by three high school students, Johns Hopkins researchers have confirmed a key way in which Zika virus causes microcephaly and other damage in fetal brains: by infecting specialized stem cells that build its outer layer, the cortex.

«To solve this problem, we borrowed a tool from phages themselves: the enzymes these viruses use to break apart a phage - infected cell to release their progeny,» says Douglas Deutsch, a graduate student in the lab.

Five days post-stimulation the anti-CD3 / anti-CD28 coated magnetic beads were removed from each of the three cultures (non-transduced (NTD), AdX4 - ZFNs, and AdR5 - ZFNs) and 2.5 million cells were seeded in each of four cultures that were subsequently infected with either Bk132 (primary X4 isolate), HxB2 (lab - adapted X4 isolate), R3A (R5X4 primary isolate), or media only (mock).

Recently, Dr. Greene's lab identified human protein fragments in semen that enhance the ability of HIV to infect new cells — a discovery that one day could help stem the global spread of this deadly pathogen.

«We systematically screened over 50 methyltransferases to determine which ones regulate latency in infected T cells,» said Daniela Boehm, postdoctoral scholar in the Ott lab and first author of the study.