Sentences with phrase «of the virus as»

The categorization of viruses as nonliving during much of the modern era of biological science has had an unintended consequence: it has led most researchers to ignore viruses in the study of evolution.

Impact on Evolution Debates over whether to label viruses as living lead naturally to another question: Is pondering the status of viruses as living or nonliving more than a philosophical exercise, the basis of a lively and heated rhetorical debate but with little real consequence?

These behaviors are what led many to think of viruses as existing at the border between chemistry and life.

«The scope of the epidemic and the fact that cases were imported into the United States and Europe reinforces the importance of these viruses as pathogens and public health threats, and drives home for us the idea that we need to be looking really seriously at ways we can translate our basic science into potential therapeutics.

Early in the summer, Phyllida Brown asserted that «lawyers acting for people infected with HIV are increasingly exploiting genetic studies of the virus as «forensic» evidence to pin blame on their clients» previous sexual partners» (This Week, 11 July).

«We should think of these viruses as symbiotic, rather than as parasites all the time,» Virgin says.

But Claverie, a geneticist at Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory in Marseille, France, believes that the Mimivirus's complexity should make researchers rethink their characterization of viruses as nonliving.

Feline CDV infections have been recorded in captive large felids for some time [13], [14]; however, the importance of the virus as a threat to wild felines was not recognized until an outbreak affecting lions (Panthera leo) in the Serengeti in 1994 [15], during which an estimated 1,000 animals (approximately 30 %) disappeared.

Though it's in the same family of viruses as SARS and the common cold — both highly contagious — MERS appears to be less transmittable.

Also, medical experts suggest that people with herpes should prefer dating those having the same strand of the virus as it would prevent transmission.

Both detect a protein component of the virus as it circulates in the bloodstream.

Laboratory tests can be done to check for the presence of the virus as well.

In human medicine, our growing knowledge about the role of viruses as a cause of certain cancers has led to the development of vaccines as preventives, such as vaccines against human papillomaviruses, the main cause of cervical cancer in women.

In fact, FIV is classified in the same family of viruses as HIV.

In human medicine, our growing knowledge about the role of viruses as a cause of certain cancers has led to the development of vaccines as...

Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) belongs to the same family of viruses as HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).

It is the same class of virus as HIV (a lentivirus); however, only cats can get FIV.

Tammy Kabell, a career and resume consultant who runs Career Resume Consulting, said employers are «just as wary of viruses as everyone else, and are hesitant to open unsolicited attachments.»

Not exact matches

Certain strains of the virus, which is sexually transmitted, are known to lead to the development of cervical cancer, as well as to cancers of the genitals, anus, and oropharynx (the part of the throat that lies just behind the mouth).

Here are all 59 countries and territories where local transmission of the virus has been reported as of September 28:

There are tons of foods that are packed with antioxidants — natural compounds that help prevent or stop cell damage and help fend off viruses and microbes — as well as foods filled with vitamins and minerals, which are considered to fight an array of common illnesses like the flu, a cold, or even sinus infections.

The Ebola infection rate and death toll have been particularly high among health workers, who are exposed to hundreds of highly infectious patients who can pass the virus on through body fluids such as blood and excrement.

Washington, D.C. - area hospital chain MedStar became the latest health care industry victim of a cyberattack Monday as hackers infiltrated its systems with a virus that crippled its IT infrastructure.

Viruses such as H1N1 have made people cautious of flu - like symptoms.

The company chose HPV for its flagship efforts, says Kim, because about 25 percent of women who get cervical dysplasia as a result of HPV have immune systems strong enough to defeat the virus without outside help.

Patients in danger of dying from uncontrollable bacterial infections could find new allies: killer viruses known as phages.

The partnership got its start four years ago, when Ian MacLachlan, head of research at Protiva Corp., which later merged with Tekmira, cold - called USAMRIID's Tom Geisbert, who had become famous as a «virus hunter» in Richard Preston's bestseller The Hot Zone.

RNA interference involves synthesizing short strands of RNA that will turn off harmful genes, such as the ones that allow viruses to spread.

Blended malware is malware that utilizes multiple types of malware technology as part of an attack - for example, combining features of Trojans, worms, and viruses.

A high proportion of mothers of both microcephaly and non-microcephaly babies also tested positive for another mosquito - borne virus, dengue fever, as well as other infections such as herpes, rubella and toxoplasma.

You play as Beck, a combat robot facing other robots who have gone rogue because of a computer virus.

(Note: The plural of computer virus is accepted as «viruses,» even if one uses «viri» as the plural for a biological virus.)

(Sophos counted 50,000 variants of existing viruses in 2009, almost twice as many as in 2008.)

(There are some exceptions to the rule, as certain tumor viruses demonstrate — see the sad, heroic tale of Nobel laureate Howard Martin Temin, who had the effrontery to challenge said dogma.)

Farmers are also more likely to use cuttings from their existing trees to plant new ones, which could facilitate the spread of diseases such as swollen shoot virus.

As a 2009 CDC document about Zika notes, we thought the same about West Nile virus — until we realized that it could cause serious neurological illness in a very small percentage of people infected with it.

Providing inside information, as innocuous as that side of it may seem, is like spreading a virus.

Dr. Michael Kurilla, director of the Office of Biodefense Research Resources and Translational Research at the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), recently told Tech Insider that for years, we thought certain viruses known as coronaviruses were relatively innocuous.

This allows users more flexibility, but is also, as Proofpoint puts it, «an extremely risky practice,» and part of the reason Android systems are more vulnerable to viruses and hacking than iPhones.

Here's how it works: When a bacterium encounters DNA from a virus, it makes a strand of RNA, a molecular cousin to DNA, that matches the sequence of the viral DNA, known as a guide RNA.

The outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa in 2014, and the worldwide panic it caused, served as a wake - up call: We as a human race are still extremely vulnerable to fast - spreading, infectious diseases.

Byron described Wired's balance sheet as «growing worse by the minute, as if some kind of financial Ebola virus were spreading through the operation... Peel away all the financial razzmatazz and Wired Ventures has turkey written all over it — a business dependent on the financial equivalent of an iron lung for continued survival.

Here's some of what's going on in the health care world as we head into Easter weekend: payers are pushing back against PTC Therapeutcics» controversial Duchenne muscular dystropy drug; insurers are cautiously lauding new rules for Obamacare's marketplaces; a fascinating lawsuit in Arkansas explores the ethics of drug making; and a new test for Zika virus can produce results within an hour.

Worries about security, the Zika virus and an economic crisis could deter travelers, with just under a third of event tickets as yet unsold.

The CDC is currently investigating a new strain of virus dubbed as «Bourbon» that may be carried by ticks after a Kansas man died from a tick bite in February, according to Bloomberg.

«This is certainly a positive step for making what previously was considered complex lab testing — such as a definitive virus assay — broadly available outside of the classic, central lab setting,» says Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and the author of The Patient Will See You Now.

The simple phrase has directed Lynch his entire career, from when he started as a research scientist developing tests for the AIDS virus to today, as president of the IT firm CMIT Solutions in Doylestown.

«If some of these islands lose their capacity to do mosquito control, and the destruction from the storms creates opportunities for larger mosquito transmission,» Weaver said, we might see an uptick of the mosquito - borne diseases that circulate there, like dengue (which could spread beyond the Caribbean's borders as people travel to and from the islands, carrying the viruses with them).

I recently gave a talk at FOO Camp that was entitled «Building a Better Virus: Viral Marketing and Epidemiology,» or as Christine Herron renamed it in her write - up of the talk, «David Hornik Learns About Marketing from Syphilis.»

The law met with the provisional cause opposition from several American organizations, who perceived too late don't a fair trial and the contents of the act as a «virus» for the Fourth Repair.