Sentences with phrase «new human pathogens»
With 75 % of all new human pathogens originating from animals, vaccines are key to limiting the future spread of infectious diseases between animals to people around the world» she added.
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They fear the emergence of a dangerous new human pathogen, possibly spread to people from fruit bats via pigs.
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Some crop — and even human — diseases might be stopped dead in their tracks if researchers can harness a new discovery about how pathogens first infect their hosts
As people move into formerly wild areas, local pathogens increasingly come into contact with new domesticated animal hosts — freshly arrived pigs, chickens, horses — and, eventually, humans.
New research published in ASM's Applied and Environmental Microbiology shows that pathogens can also jump the species barrier to move from humans to animals.
Ding's next goal is to raise $ 5 million so he can spend about five years studying new vaccines for human pathogens such as dengue fever.
«This approach of «xenosurveillance» could detect pathogens before they spread to humans, as well as the emergence of new diseases in wild animals that may threaten their long - term survival.»
Seven new pathogens are identified worldwide each year, and this is predicted to reach 15 - 20 every year by 2020 because of increased human contact with wildlife species that are potential reservoirs of disease.
An analysis of 10 years» worth of data on human influenza B viruses has shed new light on the pathogen which can cause the seasonal flu.
The new generation of researchers faces the intense competition typical of a booming field, yet they also enjoy a wide - open arena of research questions exploring everything from pathogens to plants to humans.
A study published on January 7th in PLOS Pathogens identifies a new drug target, and supports the conclusion that iron - dependent signals generated in the mitochondria are essential for the development of parasite stages that cause disease in humans.
Stricter safety procedures and new ways to weaken pathogens to reduce their risks are leading investigators in industry, universities, and government to take a new look at human challenge trials, which offer a powerful tool for studying diseases and potential therapies.
According to the new work, the pathogen has infected humans for over 60,000 years and its genetic transformation over that time is remarkably similar to that of manmaking it a reasonable model for human migration and diversification.
Walford's new research is based on the fact that in mice and humans, the immune system malfunctions during aging, losing the ability to distinguish between healthy cells and invasive pathogens such as bacteria and viruses.
The new study, led by Walter Mothes, a Yale microbial pathogens expert, involved creating one culture that mixed healthy rat cells with cells infected by the murine leukemia virus, a cancerous pathogen in rats and monkeys that is not known to affect humans.
Although the fucose findings are still preliminary, unlocking the role of this sugar in competitions between gut microbiota and pathogens could theoretically give rise to new therapies for treating human illness.
Although the virus didn't prove deadly, or even all that serious, to the humans it infected, the new findings suggest there may be more pathogens than previously thought with species - jumping potential.
A new study, published in PLOS Pathogens, investigates the genome editing of bone - morrow stem cells in pigtail macaques as a potential treatment for simian / human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV).
At any point in history, he says, new strains could have arisen from these pathogens rather than from human - to - human transmission.
The pattern of associations his team discovered suggests that today's population retains Neandertal DNA that may have provided modern humans with adaptive advantages 40,000 years ago — as they migrated into new non-African environments with different pathogens and levels of sun exposure.
His laboratory and their collaborators have also identified human amyloid fibrils in semen that enhance the ability of HIV to infect new cells — a discovery that one day could help stem the global spread of this deadly pathogen.
Recently, Dr. Greene's lab identified human protein fragments in semen that enhance the ability of HIV to infect new cells — a discovery that one day could help stem the global spread of this deadly pathogen.
Chemical controls are costly and potentially harmful to human and environmental health, so protecting crops like wheat with inherent resistance is the smart alternative, but resistance must be genetically complex, combining several genes, to withstand new mutations of the pathogen over time.
Analysis of the genome provides new insights into the workings and genome evolution of a major human pathogen.
By analyzing the molecular aspects of the extensive immune crosstalk between the fungal pathogen and the human host allows to define novel evasion strategies and defines new molecules which can serve as useful markers to develop new antifungal compounds and vaccine candidates.
The two scientists wanted to study rats in New York City to have a point of comparison in case a pathogen crossed over and caused a human outbreak.
Climate change creates new risks for human exposure to vector - borne diseases by altering conditions — such as local temperatures, rainfall amounts, and warm season length — that affect the development and spread of disease vectors and the pathogens they carry.