Sentences with phrase «novel laboratory tool»

Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that a novel laboratory tool that lets them find virus mutations faster and more efficiently than ever before has identified a biological mechanism that appears to play a big role in helping HCV evade both the natural immune system and vaccines.

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The international team's design and testing of this novel advanced material from scratch required multidisciplinary expertise and sophisticated tools from such places as Argonne National Laboratory and ORNL, including Argonne's Advanced Photon Source and ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Science, says Lee.

The Bergthaler laboratory pursues an integrative approach comprising infection models and tools of immunology, pathology and systems biology in order to dissect novel disease - relevant interactions between pathogens and the host.

Because of the ease with which the CRISPR / Cas9 system can be applied, it has quickly become a robust tool for generating accurate genetic disease models in the laboratory and for identifying novel therapeutic targets in the clinic.

Her laboratory focuses on (1) the use of next generation sequencing to define the microbiome and host immunologic features in patients with human diseases and (2) developing custom computational tools for the identification of novel human commensals and pathogens in these inpatient populations, and (3) using statistical and functional biological methods to understand the complex interplay between the human microbiome and host biology.