Sentences with phrase «of dangerous pathogens»

Rotting of food in the bowel and the development of diverticula can stimulate the growth of dangerous pathogens such as parasites, bacteria and fungus.

For example, the GAO found that an APHIS physical security expert was asked to inspect ventilation systems - a critical protection against the accidental release of dangerous pathogens.

The policy, released on March 29, makes it compulsory for the first time for all U.S. federal research agencies to assess research proposals for their dual - use risk in cases where the research involves one of a list of dangerous pathogens specified by the policy.

Rank order can help with cutting off the chain of events in the evolution of a dangerous pathogen.

The new list will be tiered by risk, a concept that the Administration is applying, in parallel, to the safekeeping of dangerous pathogens.

And a voluntary program is already under way where companies screen DNA orders for sequences of dangerous pathogens to spot synthetic biologists up to no good.

The proposed guidelines also suggest a specific approach to screening orders: instead of looking for an exact match between the requested sequence and sequences that encode specific features of dangerous pathogens — that is, select agents — companies should use what the government calls a «best match» strategy.

Prompted by advances such as this, the committee did, however, identify a key change that would be possible with current technology: moving to a sequence - based classification system for the regulation of dangerous pathogens.

► On Monday at ScienceInsider, Jocelyn Kaiser reported that the escape last month of a dangerous pathogen — Burkholderia pseudomallei — «led federal officials last month to suspend research on certain high - risk pathogens at Tulane University.»

We worry about anthrax; they worry about plague,» says Paul Keim, a molecular biologist at Northern Arizona University who specializes in the DNA fingerprinting of dangerous pathogens.

The pandemic threat has led most Governments to improve services to detect, contain and lessen the impact of dangerous pathogens.

But I'm guessing amphibians won't be the only species suffering from outbreaks of dangerous pathogens and fungi as the climate warms.

And although overconsumption no doubt took a toll, wine was far safer than water: The acid and alcohol in wine curbed the growth of dangerous pathogens.

«Clearly, this kind of research needs to be conducted using appropriate security and precautions, with consideration of how any published findings could be manipulated by those with malicious intent, or lead to an accidental release of a dangerous pathogen.