Sentences with phrase «of effects on the virus»

«We hypothesized that individual mutations in viral genes could be expected to have a range of effects on the virus's ability to replicate, to infect new cells and escape the immune system,» Carlson says.

Not exact matches

Not threatened, just angry and so saddened in having so many of our species passing on what is in effect a computer virus for the human brain.

Most Revd Jonathan Hart, Archbishop of Liberia said: «The Ebola virus is having a very bad effect on the lives of citizens in Liberia.

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I have studied the negative physiological effects of short - term maternal separation on monkey infants — such as heart rate, breathing, body temperature, susceptibility to viruses, cortisol levels, digestion, and growth itself.

Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith says the effects of Conservative policies are «like a virus preying on Wales.»

... The amount of money that is intended to affect the outcome of elections, but does not go directly to candidates has been growing like virus, with the same effect on the body of politics.»

Take Kellie Ann Jurado, a postdoctoral scientist in immunobiology at Yale University, who will use the funding for research on the effects of the Zika virus on the nervous system.

Landrum and her colleagues demonstrated the effect experimentally and reported the results in a 2017 paper in the Journal of Risk Research entitled «Culturally Antagonistic Memes and the Zika Virus: An Experimental Test,» in which participants read a news story on Zika public health risks that was linked to either climate change or immigration.

But when Rafi Ahmed and colleagues at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, gave the drug to mice infected with a virus, to probe its effects on specific parts of the immune system, they found it can have another effect.

Those mice actually die from Zika infection, making it difficult to study the natural transmission of the virus from father and mother to fetus and to assess the effect of this transmission on the newborns.»

Dr Harry Bulstrode at the University of Cambridge has received a Cancer Research UK Pioneer Award * to test the effect of the Zika virus on glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of brain tumour.

My thesis focused on the effects of plant virus replication on its host plant.

The author discusses the production of Salk vaccine at Cutter Laboratories, the tragic effects of the inadvertent injection of 200,000 people with live virulent polio virus, the subsequent legal proceedings, and the shadow those have cast on the development of new vaccines.

Their model integrated the effects of temperature on mosquito behavior and virus transmission, and looked at monthly variation in temperature rainfall, and vegetation throughout the year across Africa.

The HIV prevention strategy whose impact was observed in the study is based on earlier findings by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and others demonstrating the protective effect of voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV - uninfected men and of HIV - suppressing antiretroviral therapy (ART) for halting sexual transmission of the virus to uninfected partners.

The researchers homed in on this viral protein after they noticed that the pathogenic effects of dengue virus infection were blocked in mice that had generated antibodies to NS1.

While the individual effects of the drugs on virus - specific CTL differ somewhat depending on specific assays, schedules, and doses, treatment with any of the three HDAC inhibitors impaired the ability of CTL to kill HIV - infected immune cells.

«Most researchers have relied on cell lines to screen the effect of drugs and other treatments including viruses,» said Dr. Cripe, who also is a professor at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

Before moving on to human trials, they will need to study all instances of «off - target» effects: Years before Crispr, the viruses employed to deliver DNA in gene therapy trials occasionally damaged the whole system, causing cancer.

Aside from well - established things like rabies virus, SARS coronavirus (the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome) and Marburg virus (an extremely dangerous but rare hemorrhagic fever pathogen), bats appear to carry a plethora of other germs with unclear effects on human health, if any.

Within seven days of vaccination, a blood test early after vaccination can predict whether vaccines based on living, modified viruses have had the desired effect.

Thus, by decreasing how well the virus can make one protein we have an effect on the entire replication cycle,» explained corresponding author John Connor, PhD, associate professor of microbiology at Boston University School of Medicine.

To learn more about the virus's effect on the nervous system, Smeyne and colleagues sprayed a solution containing the virus into the noses of 225 mice.

«Our research has paved the way for studying the effects of other viruses on the mother's immune system in general, and on her offspring's brain development.

And the effect of the virus on the uterus is one of the unanswered questions about Ebola's long - term effects.

No information has become public about the effect the antibodies had on their levels of virus.

In fact, plenty of «our» DNA has foreign origins — from extinct early humans to viruses — and can have both good and bad effects on health.

Though much of the concern in the media regarding the toxic effects of Zika virus has focused on brain findings of microcephaly, the researchers noted that there are a variety of brain abnormalities that can be found in fetuses exposed to the virus, including gray and white matter volume loss, brainstem abnormalities, calcifications, and a condition called ventriculomegaly, where the ventricles, or fluid filled spaces in the brain, are enlarged.

In the three - year experiment that is expected to start this summer, Bishop wants to measure the virus's effect on the caterpillars of six species of British moth as well as those of the cabbage looper.

This had the effect of pouring a bucket of ice water on sleepy viruses to keep them awake once they reach the nucleus.

AIDS researcher Jay Levy at the University of California at San Francisco finds the results encouraging, but notes that the vaccines seemed to have no effect on the amount of virus in the bloodstream of people who contracted HIV during the study.

The researchers don't know yet whether the viruses have a positive or negative effect on overall health but speculate that in some cases, they may keep the immune system primed to respond to dangerous pathogens while in others, lingering viruses increase the risk of disease.

Climate change effects on physiology and population processes of hosts and vectors that influence the spread of hemipteran - borne plant viruses.

«This is an interesting theoretical paper using mathematical modelling to predict the possible effects of influenza vaccines that have not yet been developed on the circulation and evolution of flu viruses.

In studies of human cells infected with the HIV virus, patentiflorin A had a much more significant inhibition effect on the RT enzyme.

The Zika virus is known to negatively impact the growth of fetal brains and a group of researchers publishing in the journal Cell Stem Cell have investigated the effect of Zika on the adult brain reporting that infection can lead to cell death and reduced proliferation.

Dr. Vega Thurber's lab currently researches several aspects of marine microbial ecology, including the effects of viruses and bacteria on tropical reef health, marine microbial food web dynamics, and the cascading effects of abiotic stressors on microbial symbioses.

We evaluated the effect of pregnancy delay on reducing prenatal exposure to Zika virus, as well as the marginal effects of individual decisions to delay pregnancy longer than recommended by health policy.

«We are also launching further studies to determine whether children who have microcephaly born to mothers infected by the Zika virus is the tip of the iceberg of what we could see in damaging effects on the brain and other developmental problems.»

Taken together, these studies suggest that a mechanism that exists to defend against viruses also has an effect on whether or not the bacteria cause disease in humans — an important finding that may help us better understand why only some of these bacteria lead to illnesses such as pneumonia and meningitis.

Dr. Zhang and his colleagues at Emory, Johns Hopkins, and Florida State University focused on the effects of the virus in hNPCs, which are highly susceptible to Zika infection.

As vaccine recipients, we usually think only of the ability of the vaccine to protect us against a specific disease, but here the effects on the whole population and on the influenza virus itself are being considered.

Many researchers at NIH, universities and medical schools are looking for antibodies that act on a broad range of flu strains, with the goal of understanding how they attach to the viruses and then designing vaccines or other flu therapies that produce a similar effect.

To further assess the effects of E-cig exposure on virus - induced mortality, mice were infected with a higher dose of virus (103 TCID50).

Monolaurin has a negative effect on a variety of microorganisms in the body including bacteria, yeast, fungi, and enveloped viruses.

Researchers have evaluated the effects of a number of flavonoids on the hepatitis C virus.

Monolaurin has a negative effect on a variety of microorganisms in the body including bacteria, yeast, fungi, and enveloped viruses — boosting our immune system.

There is a PDF or an eBook out there called the — the BHT book I think is what it's called, and it was written by a biochemist by the name of Stephen Faulks and he put together a bunch of the research on its effect on lipid encapsulated viruses.

Some of the early work by Hierholzer and Kabara (1982) that showed virucidal effects of monolaurin on enveloped RNA and DNA viruses was done in conjunction with the Center for Disease Control of the U.S. Public Health Service.