Sentences with phrase «intracellular parasites»

Researchers from the University of Victoria in British Columbia [and the NIH Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites] isolated temperature - sensitive genes from some bacteria that thrive in the frigid Arctic.

«Both malaria and Helicosporidium started out as alga and ended up as intracellular parasites preying on animals, but they have done it in very different ways,» says Keeling, director of the Centre for Microbial Diversity and Evolution at UBC and a Senior Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Apicomplexa form one of the largest and most diverse groups of obligate intracellular parasites, capable of infecting almost every kind of animal.

An international research team identifies for the first time a key enzyme for the synthesis of glycoconjugates (sugars linked to other molecules) in Plasmodium falciparum and other intracellular parasites belonging to the large phylum Apicomplexa.

The immune system's killer cells deliver a tightly controlled, 3 - phase knockout punch that kills intracellular parasites through a novel pathway that an international team led by researchers from the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine (PCMM) at Boston Children's Hospital have named «microptosis.»

They are similar to obligate intracellular parasites as they lack the means for self - reproduction outside a host cell, but unlike parasites, viruses are generally not considered to be true living organisms.

A team led by UBC Botany Prof. Patrick Keeling sequenced the genome of Helicosporidium — an intracellular parasite that can kill juvenile blackflies, caterpillars, beetles and mosquitoes — and found it evolved from algae like another notorious pathogen: malaria.

«This study will be held up as a way that other people should be analyzing protective immunity,» says David Sacks, who heads the Intracellular Parasite Biology Section of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

Researchers still don't fully understand how the intracellular parasite evades its hosts» immune system for such a long time, or how it causes this damage.

The intracellular parasites that Keeling studies, which also have reduced genomes and are unable to produce their own source of energy or survive without their hosts, are typically thought of as organisms.

This intracellular parasite is transmitted to dogs through the bite of an infected tick.

Babesia gibsoni is an intracellular parasite of red blood cells.

[49] Toxoplasma gondii, an intracellular parasite, can be found in this bird.