Sentences with phrase «molecular virologist»
A molecular virologist is a scientist who studies viruses at the molecular level. They investigate how viruses infect cells, replicate, and cause diseases. Full definition
SARS is frightening, says molecular virologist Earl Brown at the University of Ottawa, because it infects deep tissues.
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To try to pin down its role, a team led by molecular virologist Gary Nabel of the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor induced an avian retrovirus to carry the protein on its surface.
The film and exhibition are the result of a collaboration between Walter and molecular virologist Professor Greg Towers of UCL.
Molecular virologist Marian Johnson - Thompson is director of Education and Biomedical Research Development at the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences and chair of the NIEHS Institutional Review Board.
A team of researchers led by molecular virologist Eva Harris, a UC Berkeley professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, presented new evidence that a guilty party is a protein secreted by cells infected with the mosquito - borne dengue virus.
Now a team led by x-ray crystallographer Wayne Hendrickson at Columbia University in New York City and molecular virologist Joseph Sodroski at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has determined gp120's atomic structure to a resolution of 2.5 angstroms.
Subsequently, molecular virologist Ralf Bartenschlager of the University of Heidelberg in Germany confirmed the vital role of the protease in hepatitis C replication.
But it's also possible to stitch a genome together a few bases at a time, a team of biologists led by molecular virologist Eckard Wimmer of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, concluded last year, after having assembled the polio virus from scratch (Science, 9 August 2002, p. 1016).
«This technique will be significant for helping us understand how the virus enters the cell,» says molecular virologist R. Jude Samulski, director of the University of North Carolina Gene Therapy Center in Chapel Hill.
Immunologist and molecular virologist David Margolis is at the forefront of HIV cure research.
«It's probably going to work» in humans, says molecular virologist Frederic Bushman of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
In an attempt to correct the defect, molecular virologist Manuel Grez of the Georg - Speyer - Haus Institute for Biomedical Research in Frankfurt and collaborators in Germany and Switzerland focused on two male CGD patients in their mid-20s.
Vaccines usually take years to develop according the Jay Nelson, PhD, senior molecular virologist and founder and director of the Vaccine and Gene Therapy institute at Oregon Health and Science University.
Presenting a compelling, sometimes riotous and often surreal world incorporating 250 works of art, CAPSID is the result of collaboration between Walter and molecular virologist Professor Greg Towers of University College London.
A structural biologist, a molecular virologist, and a microbiologist walk into a bar.
Gary Nabel, a molecular virologist with the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, and Anthony Sanchez, a virologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, created their candidate vaccine from snippets of the Ebola virus's DNA.
Philip Johnson, a molecular virologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania who did the earlier work with AAV and antibodies against the simian version of the AIDS virus, showed in a monkey experiment published in Nature Medicine in 2009 that his vector worked for more than a year.
Tim Harrison, a molecular virologist at University College London, agrees that the idea is an interesting one, but he points out that the theory might not apply to all viruses.
«It leaves the molecular virologists that have been working on hepatitis C for 25 - plus years wondering what they should do next,» Rice jokes.
In response to angry AIDS scientists, Elsevier has already permanently withdrawn the paper, in which Duesberg, a molecular virologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and his co-authors claimed that there is no link between HIV and AIDS and that South - African medical statistics belie the existence of a large AIDS epidemic in that country.
However, to be sure this genome works as it should, the researchers must still put it into a DNA-less M. genitalium, notes Eckard Wimmer, a molecular virologist at Stony Brook University in New York state: «Proof is biological function, and that's missing in this paper.»
«You certainly can't do a $ 100 million study for every candidate vaccine that appears safe and immunogenic,» says Mark Mulligan, a molecular virologist who heads the vaccine center at Emory University in Atlanta and does human challenges with norovirus and tuberculosis.
«This is the first demonstration of actual removal of the integrated virus from cells,» says Alan Engelman, a molecular virologist at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
However, Gerry Both, a molecular virologist with Australia's leading research organisation, the CSIRO, is sceptical that the protein will lead to an effective vaccine: «It is a tough example to begin with, but I'm sure there will be niches where this will be a very good technique for making a large amount of product».
The study is the first to demonstrate this effect in mice, as well as the first to implicate West Nile virus, notes Sharon Isern, a molecular virologist at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers.