Sentences with phrase «killer viruses known»
Patients in danger of dying from uncontrollable bacterial infections could find new allies: killer viruses known as phages.
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Security experts have long warned that would - be terrorists no longer need to steal deadly pathogens when commonplace genetic engineering techniques could turn a benign microbe into a killer or synthetic biology tools might be used to build a virus from scratch.
A subtype of T lymphocyte, known as a natural killer (NK) cell, patrols the body, attacking and killing viruses and cancer cells.
In December 1993 the smallpox virus, one of the worst killers the earth has known, will be put to death by human hands.
Published Thursday January 21st, 2016 in the journal Cell Reports, a team from Cardiff University's Systems Immunity Research Institute identify a molecule in the body — known as L - selectin — which directs the body's killer T cells to the site of a virus.
New research from La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology lays the groundwork to parse how the virus interacts with its host and causes disease by pinpointing CD8 + T cells, a subset of T cells more commonly known as cytotoxic or killer T cells, as important gatekeepers that control Zika infection or limit the severity of disease.
One of its key cells is known as the Natural Killer (NK) cells, which identify and eliminate those cells that are infected with viruses or transformed by cancer.
Whether it was a vulnerable young kitten who succumbed to a killer virus or an elderly feral cat who became overwhelmed with health problems, each and every cat knew love from dedicated caregivers and the benefit of the best veterinary care that we could provide.
The story is flying swarms of «nanomachines» using «genetic algorithms» (so they evolve) and «distributed intelligence» (so the individual «bots can act cohesively as a swarm) become killers (in order to reproduce somehow) and learn to communicate and then learn how to make themselves look like people and also take over people to make them do their bidding (along with gaining super-strength) but luckily they have bacterial components, so the good guys release a bacteria killing virus to win (I think), My dad actually stopped the tape at one point when Crichton for no reason writes about the good guy deciding whether he should drink tea or coffee (it sure was an exciting decision) and chooses tea because it has more caffeine (which is really untrue according to what I've known all my life as well as coffeefaq.com).