Sentences with phrase «more resistant»

A study into why some people are more resistant than others to diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) and leprosy has identified a new genetic variant which affects susceptibility to these diseases.

As a result, many scientists and physicians are pursuing ways to destroy stem - like cells in cancer, since such cells may make cancer more resistant to treatment and may lead to cancer recurrence.

He noticed that in this region the gene processes were frequently flawed and that a protein known to help the progression and development cancer was produced at abnormally high levels, making the tumors of these patients more resistant to treatment.

To this end, he has identified and is pursuing new therapeutic targets and experimental strategies to block disease - causing processes and to make the brain more resistant to disease.

This might potentially lead to overuse of antibiotics, producing superbugs more resistant to antibiotics.

Scientists at the University of Ulster's Nanotechnology Institute and collaborators from Peking University and University of Oxford have developed reduced graphene oxide / platinum supported electrocatalysts (Pt / RGO) that could make fuel cells more efficient and more resistant to carbon monoxide poisoning.

Examples of coral genera recognized as more resistant to thermal stress include:

Research from the Klessig lab shows that HMGB3 signals to the plant immune system when tissues are damaged and makes plants more resistant to certain infections.

«Understanding the origin of the degradation process is crucial to designing materials that are more resistant,» said Persson.

Understanding the sequence of events that result in penetrative oxidation will help researchers tailor alloys to be more resistant to degradation in service.

«In the short - term, introducing mutations in key genes will be the most wide application of this technology, where the aim is to kill DNA, avoiding the expression of toxic proteins, or introducing mutations in genes to make crops more resistant to diseases, or genes which limit crop adaptability, and to develop androsterile plants for hybrid production.

An international consortium of more than 60 scientists from the United States, China and Europe has just published the genome sequence of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus), information that could dramatically accelerate watermelon breeding towards production of a more nutritious, tastier, and more resistant fruit.

In general, coral species that are more resistant to bleaching can be characterized by massive growth forms, thick or less - integrated tissues and slow growth rates.

Both microRNA families have the connection to drug resistance as well as to cancer stem cells, sub-population of cancer cells that have self - renewal properties and the ability to give rise to new tumors that are more resistant to current therapy.

It makes organisms more resistant to stress and toxins, more sensitive to glucose and insulin, and in mice it helps prevent heart attack, diabetes, stroke, dementia and Parkinson's disease.

«Captive breeding programs must consider breeding and releasing frogs with stronger defenses, and testing their skin secretions against the fungus is one useful tool to see which frogs are more resistant.»

Thus, by the time they are macroscopic, these tumors are poorly immunogenic, and more resistant to immune - mediated destruction.

Increased levels of carbon dioxide could boost plant growth and make plants more resistant to droughts, he said.

«This research should lead to more resistant materials,» said Dr. Miroslaw Derewinski, who mentored Prodinger and synthesized materials for the study.

People develop type 2 diabetes over time as their bodies become more and more resistant to the hormone insulin, which is necessary to process the glucose in blood that provides energy for cells, explains Dr. Patti, who is also an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

We will continue to study whether pathogens are exploiting mechanisms evolved to support symbionts and, hopefully, this will allow us to establish future crop plants that both benefit from symbionts whilst remaining more resistant to pathogens.

Other studies identified additional ways to make the brain more resistant to amyloid - beta peptides that impair neuronal function as they build up in brains of those with Alzheimer's.

The exceptionally wide distribution of nlp20 therefore offers one way of making food crops more resistant to a broad spectrum of pathogens.

Tumors in low - oxygen environments tend to be more resistant to therapy and spread more aggressively to other parts of the body.

«What's interesting about that, from kind of an eye in the sky look, is that in the future we might be able to increase prevalence of the more resistant version and create a new population of more resistant snails without actually interfering with their biological function,» Allan said.

«Meanwhile, we'll also be tweaking the Alphamer to make it more potent and more resistant to degradation by the body.»

«It can absorb all wavelengths of UVB radiation, with no gaps in coverage,» says Zwier, who says his finding could be useful for developing more resistant plants.

The primary focus of future research efforts on these alloys is increasing the weight of the materials to make them more resistant to impacts.

«We'd anticipate far fewer ecological consequences from gene - driving one of these naturally occurring proteins into a population of snails, because they'd remain natural in pretty much every other way — just instead of being more susceptible to Schistosoma, they'd be more resistant.»

Plant pathologists Dr Joan Webber, from Forest Research, the research agency of the Forestry Commission, and Professor Clive Brasier found that the defence mechanisms which the Chalara fraxinea (C. fraxinea) fungus uses to defend its territory could make it more resistant to virus - based control methods.

The increase in the expression of transporters in germ cells could potentially result in earlier stages of spermatogenic cells which become more resistant to the deprivation of RAR signaling from the RAR antagonist.

In this study, ZMBP researchers experimented to find out whether a genetic transfer of the receptor responsible for Phytophthora makes its preferred hosts more resistant to it.

But urban life may have also influenced human genes, making the descendants of ancient city dwellers more resistant to disease.

In 1999, Emily Scott, a graduate student in Olson's lab, noticed that sperm whale apomyoglobin was much more resistant to chemically induced unfolding than the corresponding human or pig apoproteins.

But although parents do catch infections from their kids, it seems parents are also more resistant to colds and flu.

The older mice fed a diet containing extra amounts of vitamin E, the equivalent to about 200 IU / day consumed by humans — about 10 times the Recommended Daily Allowance but well below the upper limit — were far more resistant to the bacteria than the older mice that had a normal amount of vitamin E in their diet.

Females are naturally more resistant to respiratory infections than males.

Conversely, adolescent mice with increased eIF2α activity in the brain became more resistant to the effects of cocaine, as seen in adults.

Majorana particles would spread quantum information across particles, making them far more resistant to interference, says Kane.

Individuals with certain variations in this gene are more resistant to the diseases.

Paek's research group analyzed plants mutated in a regulatory gene called NAC016 and found that the nac016 mutant plants were more resistant to drought.

Although the notion that sharks and rays are more resistant to cancers needs rigorous scientific confirmation, the results of this new study raise the enticing prospect that the proteins produced by these cancer - related legumain and Bag1 genes have modified functions in sharks, including the possibility of actually protecting the animals from acquiring cancer.

Several surveys have suggested that highly diverse plant communities are more resistant than species - poor ones, changing less from their normal state during periods of drought — and recovering more rapidly afterwards.

Polyploid cells, which carry additional copies of important tumor suppressor genes, are better protected and more resistant to cancer formation because they have these extra copies of the genome,» said Dr. Zhu, who is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern.

Wild populations of cacao across the Americas may therefore be treasure troves of genetic variation, which could be bred into cultivated strains to make the latter more resistant to disease and climate change, and perhaps even create new flavors of chocolate.

«According to the classic view, horses would have evolved faster in when grasslands appeared, developing teeth that were more resistant to the stronger wear that comes with a grass - dominated diet.

IL - 22 makes intestinal cells more resistant to viral invasion, whereas IL - 18 thwarts the virus by spurring cells it has already infected to commit suicide.

Grammar changes more rapidly and is especially influenced by contact with unrelated languages, while words are more resistant to change.

Those are ambitious targets, especially as TB is becoming more and more resistant to the few antibiotics that work against it.

However, these children and grandchildren of famine turned out to be more resistant to starvation and a heat - tolerance test.