Sentences with phrase «made deadly virus»
Over fears that terrorists could order the genes needed to make a deadly virus, a group of «designer DNA» companies is stepping up security.
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A mutation can also make a mild virus turn deadly.
For the sake of those they might infect with this deadly virus, any person who tests positive should either refrain from sexual intercourse altogether or at least make use of a latex condom.
For years the research has suggested that any mutations that enhanced the virus's ability to spread among humans would simultaneously make it less deadly.
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have deciphered how a small protein made by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS manipulates human genes to further its deadly agenda.
Put another way, bird flu in Indonesia is about 8,000 times as deadly as the swine flu virus now making the rounds, according to global health expert Laurie Garrett of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.
In the film Contagion, it takes just a few months for scientists to make a vaccine against a deadly virus.
Last December, the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) concluded that publications about the work — which for the first time made the deadly bird flu virus transmissible in mammals — should redact key details to reduce the chances of bioterrorists using the information.
While fully intact Ebola virus is a biosafety level (BSL) 4 pathogen and dangerous to work with, the team created a virus - like particle comprised of the Ebola proteins (glycoproteins and matrix proteins) that enable the virus to enter cells, but without many of the genes and proteins that make the virus deadly.
In 2011, it became embroiled in heated debates about «gain - of - function» experiments with the deadly avian influenza virus H5N1 that made it more transmissible in mammals.
At the request of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, Science and Nature have agreed to strike key details from papers in press describing how researchers made the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus more transmissible between mammals.
The US government surprised many researchers on October 17 when it announced that it will temporarily stop funding new research that makes certain viruses more deadly or transmissible.
Virologists Masato Hatta and Yoshihiro Kawaoka and their colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, decided to investigate what makes this particular strain of flu virus so deadly.
The problem is that many people have antibodies to these viruses and their immune responses can make such treatments dangerous or even deadly.
Cancers of the breast, prostate, colorectal system, liver and kidney as well as multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells that make antibodies to fight viruses and bacteria, strike earlier, deadlier and more often in some racial and ethnic groups, the National Cancer Institute has shown.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes takes place ten years after Rise, which ended with the global spread of a virus that is deadly to humans but makes all other simians sapient.
The story takes place pretty much where Resident Evil finishes, with Alice emerging from what appears to be some serious experimentation at the hands of the evil Umbrella Corporation to discover that the deadly T - Virus has apparently made its way to Raccoon City, which now lies in shambles.
They also get involved in a nefarious plot to spread a deadly virus, making them wanted by the FBI.
Cronin is able to make characters who only appear on 10 pages as alive as his main characters, and in the novel's first 100 pages he has set the stage for what promises to be an epic saga: a young girl is abandoned; a scientific team on an expedition in South America discovers a mysterious, deadly virus; a death row inmate is released and transported to a secret location by a military operative for experimentation.
It made a huge splash in the press because the molecular genetics part of the story established such a clear cross-species transmission of an influenza virus - not because it is a new, deadly disease of dogs.
The New Smyrna Beach Police Department is cautioning residents about making contact with wild or stray animals because they may be carrying the deadly rabies virus.
Make sure you get your dog vaccinated against parvo and distemper, because these viruses can be deadly.
Viruses and Bacterial Infections — Making sure your horse is always up - to - date on his or her core vaccinations (and any other vaccinations recommended by your veterinarian based on your horse's geography, travel, work, lifestyle and health conditions) is critical to preventing painful and potentially deadly diseases.
Relying on the landmark case of Korematsu vs the United States, Professor Rodgers points out that while Korematsu speaks to an eminent potential invasion in the United States by an enemy force, the government could easily make a corollary between an ever - expanding and deadly virus and an invasion by an enemy force.