Sentences with phrase «on retroviruses»

In a presentation at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in March last year, lead researcher Alison Rodger announced the remarkable results of the study so far: In two years, there were no instances of transmission of the virus between partners in the study — and that's including the couples who were not using condoms.

Stephen Becker, Carl Dieffenbach, Clifford Lane, Richard Chaisson, and Joep Lange, among others, offered their thoughts on the life and legacy of Martin Delaney at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) just weeks after his death in January 2009.

His work has focused on evolutionary virology, primarily on retroviruses and more recently herpes viruses in wildlife.

Sunday's «birthday» celebration, a tradition among transplant cancer survivors, capped a day - long workshop on HIV cure research on the eve of a major HIV scientific meeting, the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, or CROI, being held in Seattle.

In the early 1990s, researchers developed viral vector systems based on retroviruses like Moloney murine leukemia virus (MMLV).

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON — When French scientists presented the results from an Ebola drug trial at a press conference on Monday, they did so with plenty of caveats, but their message was hopeful: The drug, favipiravir, appeared to lower mortality in people with low and medium - high levels of virus in their blood, the researchers told journalists at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) here.

Researchers presented results from both sets of trials at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle this week.

Yesterday was the first time the French team discussed their data publicly, speaking to the media at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) here.

«It's the proof of concept that through therapeutic vaccination we can really re-educate our T cells to control the virus,» says Beatriz Mothe, a clinician at IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain, who presented the results here at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.

The slight loss in bone mineral density associated with HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) antiretroviral use is reversible in young adult patients who stop taking the drugs, according to findings presented by researchers today at the 23rd Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston.

The findings were presented publicly for the first time today at a press briefing at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston.

Study findings are being presented at the 2015 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle, Washington.

PrEP, which uses antiretroviral (ARV) pills made for treatment as preventives, faces multiple obstacles, as Bekker and other discussed at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections here.

These findings were previously presented at the 2013 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta.

Both studies were released during the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston, Mass..

Initial results from PREVAIL III were presented this evening at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston by study co-principal investigator Mosoka Fallah, Ph.D., M.P.H., with the Liberian Ministry of Health.

Four separate teams have tried different drugs including sevelamer to reduce microbial translocation and immune activation in humans, so far with no significant benefits, according to results presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections which was held in Boston in March.

These findings were presented by one of the co-principal investigators, Fatorma Bolay, Ph.D., director of the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research, this evening at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston.

But a better understanding of the gut environment will be necessary to achieve the next level of advances in comprehending the disease and fashioning better interventions, researchers said last Wednesday at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston.

Results of the Phase II clinical trial were presented Feb. 23 at the 2016 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston.

It has most commonly been used on retrovirus and lentivirus factors.

The original method probably could not be tested in people because it relied on a retrovirus to activate a few genes that reprogram the cells.

Thus far, there hasn't been too many details on Retrovirus or what that «six degrees of freedom» gameplay will look like, but Cadenza has just announced that they'll be demoing the game, live, tomorrow night.

Not exact matches

So far, «in my view, his most important achievement [s] were his initial demonstration and further exploration of the centrosome as a critical hub on the route followed by retroviruses between the plasma membrane and the nucleus.

On closer inspection, however, the gene we had discovered in vertebrates proved not to be a retrovirus gene at all.

To account for the remarkable similarity between retrovirus oncogenes and their normal cellular kin, most virologists have settled on the idea that retrovirus oncogenes are copies of cellular genes.

Removing the viruses — called porcine endogenous retroviruses, or PERVs — creates piglets that can't pass the viruses on to transplant recipients, geneticist Luhan Yang and colleagues report online August 10 in Science.

These experiments confirmed that the observed cluster of adaptations resulted in resistance specifically to cercopithecine lentiviruses, but had no effect on restriction of other retroviruses, including lentiviruses of other, non-cercopithecine primates.

Interested in the history of lentiviruses — the group of retroviruses to which HIV and its simian (monkey) relatives, the SIVs belong — Welkin Johnson, from Boston College, USA, and colleagues focused on an antiviral gene called TRIM5.

Zhang worked tirelessly on this challenge, developing a highly concentrated but still - safe retrovirus derived from HIV; in essence, he removed HIV's toxic genes and replaced them with a version of ChR2.

Their paper, «Detection of an Infectious Retrovirus, XMRV, in Blood Cells of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,» appeared in the online edition of Science on October 8, 2009.

This study represents the only research done so far on endogenous retroviruses of New World bats and suggests there is still much to be learned about vampire bats as viral reservoirs.

At an October presentation on her work at the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in Ottawa, she suggested that a related retrovirus in the same family as XMRV (gammaretroviruses) was actually behind chronic fatigue syndrome.

Part II of a two - part article on the human retroviruses.

When the lemur reproduced, that retrovirus rode into the next generation aboard the lucky sperm and then moved on from generation to generation, nestled in the DNA.

Our DNA carries dozens of copies of Perron's virus, now called human endogenous retrovirus W, or HERV - W, at specific addresses on chromosomes 6 and 7.

After preclinical studies, a gene therapy trial for SCID - X1 was initiated, based on the use of complementary DNA containing a defective γc Moloney retrovirus — derived vector and ex vivo infection of CD34 + cells.

«More importantly, a retrovirus can infect only dividing cells such as reactive glial cells, but it does not affect neurons, which makes it ideal for therapeutic use with minimal side effect on normal brain functions.»

The research activities of the institute focus mainly on the HI virus which causes AIDS, on endogenous retroviruses, which are integrated into our germline, and hepatitis B and C viruses, which cause liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.

While retroviruses generally only infect dividing cells (because their access to the host genome is thought to rely on the breakdown of the nuclear envelope that occurs in mitosis [Roe et al., 1993]-RRB-, lentiviruses are a genus of the retroviral family that can infect non-dividing cells (possibly through the use of nuclear localization signals by the viral components [Bukrinsky et al., 1992]-RRB-, and thus, offer an advantage when transducing certain cell types that exhibit limited cell division (e.g., neurons).

A study from Dr. Dusty Miller's laboratory indicates that Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV) infects both sheep and human cells cultured outside the body and does so by attaching to a receptor on the surface of lung cells.

Yet, 8 % of the human genome is based on exogenous sequences from retroviruses [54].

In 2006, Michele De Luca, MD, from the Center for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy and colleagues reported in Nature Medicine on introducing working copies of LAMB3 aboard retroviruses into skin stem cells sampled from a man with JEB, fashioning grafts patched onto nine small areas of his legs.

On the contrary, recent evidence indicates that XMRV is a contaminant originating from the recombination of two mouse endogenous retroviruses during passaging of a prostate tumor xenograft (CWR22) in mice, generating laboratory - derived cell lines that are XMRV - infected.

What: The purpose of the group is to share work in progress between retrovirus and related labs, and to give feedback on ongoing projects.

However, subsequent studies carried out on small numbers (20 — 30) of CFS patients, failed to confirm evidence for HTLV (type 1 or 11)[22]--[25] or other retroviruses, including the closely - related simian T lymphotropic virus type l, the prototype foamy virus, simian retrovirus, bovine and feline leukaemia viruses [26] and HIV - 1 [23].

In August 2003, the Journal of Veterinary Medicine carried an Italian study which showed that dogs also develop vaccine - induced cancers at their injection sites.5 We already know that vaccine - site cancer is a possible sequel to human vaccines, too, since the Salk polio vaccine was said to carry a monkey retrovirus (from cultivating the vaccine on monkey organs) that produces inheritable cancer.

The conference, now in its 7th year, has been expanded to three full days to provide more than a dozen sessions on vital topics from playgroups for dogs to retroviruses in cats.

These preventive healthcare guidelines outline recommendations on everything from vaccinations and sterilization to retrovirus testing and parasite control.

Back in the 1980s, when AIDS was first getting attention, there was a great deal of research done on FIV because it was thought that the two retroviruses were similar.