Sentences with phrase «larger than viruses»

Nanoparticles reveal that human cervicovaginal mucus is riddled with pores larger than viruses.

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Mutations in the genes that defend the body against cancer - related viruses and other infections may play a larger role in breast cancer than previously thought, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The largest outbreak on record for the filovirus family was caused by Ebola virus in West Africa between 2013 and 2016, resulting in more than 28,000 infections and more than 11,000 deaths.

The largest molecule he has imaged is HIV protease, an enzyme containing more than 1500 atoms that is vital for the virus to replicate.

As their name suggests, giant viruses are larger than many bacterial and eukaryotic cells.

Its genome weighs in at a whopping 1.2 million letters: at least 10 times larger than atypical virus's; nearly triple the size of that of its largest viral counterpart, canary pox, in the smallpox family; and larger than the genomes of 20 or more parasitic bacteria.

Back when the three domains of life were emerging, a large DNA virus very much like Mimi may have made its way inside a bacterium or an archaean and, rather than killing it, harmlessly persisted there.

20 We are family: Scientists suspect that a large DNA - based virus took up residence inside a bacterial cell more than a billion years ago to create the first cell nucleus.

If there have been a large number of such cases, it would mean the virus is less deadly than it might appear — but also more widespread in the community, and therefore possibly more transmissible than we realise.

If the virus now found in the Americas and Caribbean moves into the bugs» spit faster than other strains do, it could fuel a larger, faster - moving outbreak in humans — and favor the inside version in the inside / outside hypotheses duel.

In ongoing studies, the researchers spray influenza virus into the noses of volunteers via a mist, created by an atomizer that only produces particles larger than 10 microns.

Large study in Qatar also shows that infection with the virus is more widespread than previously known

Now, a research team has shown that a lab - made molecule that mimics an antibody from our immune system may have more protective power than anything the body produces, keeping four monkeys free of HIV infection despite injection of large doses of the virus.

Take, for instance, the largest - ever virus so far discovered, mimivirus: its genome is some 50 times larger than that of HIV and is larger than that of some bacteria.

A typical virus is about a million times smaller in volume than a bat blood cell, so one challenge is sifting the evidence of viral genetic material from the background of more abundant cells with larger genomes.

The 1,610 Ebola virus genomes analyzed by the researchers represented more than 5 percent of the known cases, the largest sample analyzed for a single human epidemic.

Norbert Garcia Jr., from Tucson, created larger - than - life models of the AIDS virus in memory of his uncle, whose homosexuality and his death by complications from AIDS were not discussed in his traditional Mexican American family.

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The much greater danger is the wholesale spread of the virus between large flocks of birds, especially birds that come into frequent contact with humans — and that is taking place in more countries now than ever before.