Sentences with phrase «new kind of virus»

7 In 1992 scientists tracking a pneumonia outbreak in England found a massive new kind of virus lurking within an amoeba inside a cooling tower.

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«Because BX795 targets a common pathway that many viruses use to replicate inside the cell, it could be a new kind of broad - spectrum antiviral that might be used to treat other viral infections, including HSV - 2, which primarily affects the genitals, and HIV, although we have not yet tested it on viruses other than HSV - 1.»

In addition, says Simonet, we need new kinds of treatment such as bacteriophages — viruses that attack bacteria — and treatments that let bacteria live but stop them causing disease, possibly by blocking their communications.

And there are new creative approaches: One research group is trying to make a kind of super shot by anticipating every possible mutation a circulating virus might undergo.

THE swine flu virus has been a serious pandemic threat for years, New Scientist can reveal — but research into its potential has been neglected compared with other kinds of flu.

A team of engineers at MIT has harnessed viruses to make components for a remarkable new kind of battery, half the size of a human cell and far more efficient than your usual AAA.

A study in the journal Science illustrates how genetically engineered viruses can be used to assemble an anode and cathode to make a new kind of battery.

Other researchers have shown that evolving viruses tends to get in this kind of rut, but this result «is in the context of a much larger, bacterial genome,» says Vaughn Cooper, an evolutionary microbiologist at the University of New Hampshire, Durham.

An investigational vaccine safeguarded some ladies versus infection from among the 2 kinds of herpes simplex viruses that trigger genital herpes, according to findings in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Is it some kind of new terrorist attack, an experiment gone wrong, a diabolical toxic weapon, an out - of - control virus?

Q: In Darwin's Radio, you wrote about the evolution of a new human species that is triggered by an HERV, or Human Endogenous Retrovirus — which, if I understand correctly, is a kind of ancient virus that has entered into human DNA and persisted there in a dormant state for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years.

For those new to the franchise, as it often happens in these stories... the set - up is that some kind of virus has spread.

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