Sentences with phrase «plant a virus in»

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In this vast cosmos, such as science knows it, we humans (even as an entire race, from beginning to end) are barely a speck in silent space, unimportant, less enduring than galaxies and stars» less so even than many plants, insects, and viruses» here today like the grass of the field, tomorrow gonIn this vast cosmos, such as science knows it, we humans (even as an entire race, from beginning to end) are barely a speck in silent space, unimportant, less enduring than galaxies and stars» less so even than many plants, insects, and viruses» here today like the grass of the field, tomorrow gonin silent space, unimportant, less enduring than galaxies and stars» less so even than many plants, insects, and viruses» here today like the grass of the field, tomorrow gone.

In fact, all insects are animals, and pretty much anything that's not a plant, fungus, bacterium, virus, or protist is an animal too.»

Avoid using tobacco in any form to help protect plants against tobacco mosaic virus.

In genetic modification (or engineering) of food plants, scientists remove one or more genes from the DNA of another organism, such as a bacterium, virus, or other plant or animal, and «recombine» them into the DNA of the plant they want to alter.

Weeds not only look ugly, they can harbor pests like leafhoppers, which spread curly top virus to pepper plants (which happened with devastating effect throughout New Mexico in 1995).

Control insects early in the season because many of them transmit virus and bacterial disease to healthy plants.

The tobacco in cigarettes may contain tobacco mosaic virus which can infect the pepper seeds or plants.

This creates combinations of plant, animal, bacterial and virus genes that do not occur in nature or through traditional crossbreeding methods.

As a proof of concept for this study, the researchers tested the plant virus - derived nanoparticles with a nematicide called crystal violet, which has been used to kill nematodes on skin but not in agriculture.

«We use biological nanoparticles — a plant virus — to deliver a pesticide,» said Paul Chariou, a PhD student in biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve and author of a study on the process published in the journal ACS Nano.

IDing crooks from the DNA in their fingerprints, the 8 percent of our genome that came from viruses, and the plant that laughs at our puny genetic endowment.

«Along with the eggs, the parasitoid injects a symbiotic virus that knocks out the immune system of the caterpillar and kill the component in the caterpillar saliva that signals the plant that it is being attacked.»

Lab testing showed that the plant - made virus particles, which naturally bind to receptors on cancer cells, were taken in by human breast cancer cells.

Harvey received an NSF postdoctoral research fellowship to conduct 3 years of research on plant - virus infections at the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich for the first part of his postdoc, and then at the University of Cambridge, both in the United Kingdom.

In this technique, the DNA of the human virus is not incorporated into the plant's genes, so it isn't present in the seeds or polleIn this technique, the DNA of the human virus is not incorporated into the plant's genes, so it isn't present in the seeds or pollein the seeds or pollen.

The latest smart - phone security vulnerability garnering attention is one that could allow a hacker to blitz one's iPhone or Android - based device with a deluge of SMS (short message service) text messages, an attack that could allow an intruder to plant a virus on the phone or at the very least cause the phone to shut down (disconnecting calls and Web access in the process).

In the UK, Mike Adams, project leader at the Plant Pathology Department at the Institute of Arable Crops Research, set up a successful collaboration the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Hangzhou, China, to fight mosaic viruses in wheaIn the UK, Mike Adams, project leader at the Plant Pathology Department at the Institute of Arable Crops Research, set up a successful collaboration the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Hangzhou, China, to fight mosaic viruses in wheain Hangzhou, China, to fight mosaic viruses in wheain wheat.

RNA interference, an immune defense first discovered in plants more than a decade ago, may become a powerful new weapon against SARS and other deadly viruses.

In the Baulcombe lab, Voinnet analyzed the in vivo dynamics of gene silencing using transgenic plants, recombinant viruses, and fluorescence microscopIn the Baulcombe lab, Voinnet analyzed the in vivo dynamics of gene silencing using transgenic plants, recombinant viruses, and fluorescence microscopin vivo dynamics of gene silencing using transgenic plants, recombinant viruses, and fluorescence microscopy.

Intuitively assuming a connection with a plant defense system, Voinnet went to the nearby Institut Jacques Monod in Paris to work on plant viruses with Anne - Lise Haenni for a year.

Determined to investigate, Voinnet specialized in plant molecular biology and, because gene silencing had also been reported in plants made resistant to viruses, plant pathology.

After a lethal plant virus swept through this field trial in Tha Pra, Thailand, the GM papaya trees on the right stood hearty, while the conventional trees on the left fell sickly and fruitless.

In plants, fungi and insects it also is used for protection against certain viruses.

Scientists have a promising new approach to combating deadly human viruses thanks to an educated hunch by University of California, Riverside microbiology professor Shou - Wei Ding, and his 20 years of research on plants, fruit flies, nematodes and mice to show the truth in his theory.

Further development of these plant extracts may advance global treatment and control of virus infections in various ways.

Until now, scientists were unable to prove that mammals use RNAi for killing viruses, but ironically, it was Ding's earlier research into plants, nematodes and fruit flies that helped him find the key: viruses have been outwitting that innate protection in our cells by using proteins to suppress our virus - killing mechanism.

That, and further discussions with his mentor Adrian Gibbs, an expert on molecular evolution of viruses and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences, «made me think there must be a common anti-viral mechanism in plants and animals to keep their viruses similar,» he said.

There, in collaboration with a British group led by RNAi - expert David Baulcombe, Ding's group discovered that the 2b protein did indeed suppress the RNAi virus - fighting properties in plants.

That's why researchers are engineering plants to produce key parts of viruses and bacteria, in the hope that the human body will take them for invaders and start producing antibodies against the organisms.

He did early work on creating transgenic plants that can resist viruses and has long been an advocate for plant biotechnology as a tool to improve agriculture in developing countries.

Damage from Hurricane Sandy took several wastewater treatment plants offline in New Jersey, and raw sewage carrying high levels of bacteria and viruses emptied into some waterways in the northern part of the state.

Martin Cann's lab at Durham, in collaboration with the laboratories of Aska Goverse at Wageningen University and Frank Takken at the University of Amsterdam, studied a receptor protein called Rx1, which is found in potato plants and detects infection by a virus called potato virus X.

The mowing of wetland plants in basins that failed to drain properly led to a boom in populations of Culex pipiens mosquitoes, which can carry and transmit the deadly virus, researchers report.

Microbiologist Charles Gerba and his colleagues planted an innocuous virus on a doorknob or tabletop in three settings — a health care facility, an office and a conference room, with the consent of the workers.

Viral genes have been used to protect papaya plants against the ring spot virus, for example, with no sign of resistance evolving in over a decade of use in Hawaii.

Marilyn Roossinck of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, spoke with Sarah Crespi about the diversity of roles that viruses take on in ecological systems, from protecting plants from drought to moderating nitrogen fixation.

If DNA is a jungle, then the viruses are the animals and plants that live and adapt within it, says Villarreal, who in 2001 showed that the presence of a viral gene is essential for the formation of the human placenta.

There are many different types of ribozymes in nature but our lab has focused upon the hammerhead motif which is found as part of the self - cleaving domain of small plant viruses.

Researchers have sequenced the genome of the whitefly (Bemisia tabici), an invasive insect responsible for spreading plant viruses worldwide, causing billions of dollars in crop losses each year.

Transgenic plants producing high levels of the mutant Rep protein are resistant to the virus, due to the mutant Rep interfering with the function of the virus» non-mutated Rep.. In the second PDR variation, plants were engineered to express a mutant Rep only when they became infected with the virus.

Masters Student, Department of Plant Pathology May 2006 — August 2007 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Principal Investigators: Drs. Keith Perry and Stewart Gray Research conducted in these labs range from the mechanisms of aphid - virus interactions to epidemiology and disease management strategies of the diseases caused by viruses.

He is also on the Science advisory board of Nomad Biosciences in Halle, Germany, which aims to produce human pharmaceutical and other valuable proteins using plant viruses rather than GM plants.

Speakers: Prof Paul Birch, Professor of Plant Pathology, University of Dundee Dr John Walsh, Research Leader in Plant - Virus Interactions, University of Warwick

The methyltransferase pseudogenes contain motifs of the Caulimovirus, a virus often found integrated in to plant genomes, and of different retrotransposons families such as aedes aegypti, Gypsy, Helitron - 5, CACTA - 1, RTEX and CR1 (see Supplementary Table 2).

«We responded to this challenge by proposing to engineer maize viruses, aphids, and leafhoppers such that they can be deployed rapidly to change gene expression in mature maize plants.»

«The vision of Blake Bextine, a program manager at DARPA, was to develop insect - vectored viruses that can be used to modify crop plants to respond to emerging threats in real time,» according to Georg Jander, VIPER Project Leader and BTI professor.

Together, the VIPER team will engineer viruses that activate desirable traits in mature maize plants, insects that efficiently transmit these viruses, and mechanisms to prevent the unwanted spread of the viruses and insects to non-target plants.

Combined Program at the Plant Virus Laboratory in Shenyang Agricultural University.

A vial of the NIAID Zika Virus Investigational DNA Vaccine, taken at the NIAID Vaccine Research Center's Pilot Plant in Frederick, Maryland.

But the root in Aleu's hands is stunted and gnarled because of a plant virus called brown streak disease.