Sentences with phrase «infectious form»

But in a Frankenstein - like maneuver, French molecular geneticists led by Thierry Heidmann of the Gustave - Roussy Institute have now reassembled one of these long - lost retroviruses into its original infectious form.

Prusiner showed that prion proteins (PrP) exist in a normal cellular form, and in a misfolded infectious form.

Everything at Matthew Marks Gallery in Beverly Hills gives infectious form to Price's fascination with details and the wide - eyed delight he found in his surroundings.

But they also found fewer sporozoites — the infectious form of the parasite — indicating that the mosquitoes were less infectious at higher temperatures.

Dr. Caughey's group is continuing its development of RT - QuIC applications, including further studies of when and where the pathological prion protein appears in skin, and how to effectively inactivate its infectious forms.

These antibodies bind to the surface of the sporozoites, the infectious form of the malaria parasite which is injected into the blood by the mosquito.

Working independently, three teams of researchers have developed a clear picture of the structure and mechanism of the misshapen, threadlike proteins — called prions in their infectious form — that are the hallmarks of mad cow disease, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and 19 other brain - wasting diseases.

Prusiner won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for discovering that the neurodegenerative diseases known as spongiform encephalopathies, which include «mad cow disease,» are caused by an infectious form of a protein that exists in all mammals and birds examined, including humans.

Volunteer Molly Perry receives an injection of sporozoites — the infectious form of the malaria parasite — from Dr. Jim Kublin at the Fred Hutch - based Seattle Malaria Clinical Trials Center.

Cough found in a population of dogs such as those staying in a kennel, at a particular point in time, and dogs that came in contact with other dogs, either in or out of the house, represents any infectious form of cough.

Two lab tests are used to rule out these causes including a Coombs» test for immune - mediated arthritis and Serum Titers for any infectious form of arthritis.