Sentences with phrase «plant a virus on»

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).

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They grow on smaller 24» plants are virus resistant.

Peppers are susceptible to plant pathogens on the seed coat such as bacterial leaf spot and tobacco mosaic virus.

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.

«As the virus kills the plant, we harvest the vaccine before the plant withers and falls apart,» says Charles Arntzen of Arizona State University, who worked with Hugh Mason on plant vaccines.

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

The visit «opened my eyes to the devastating impact plant viruses are having on African agriculture,» he says.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The South Dakota State University plant science professor has been working on wheat viruses for more than 25 years.

Plants, mosquitoes and viruses are all accepted as self - replicating but rely heavily on other species to achieve it.

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.

Developers then used genetic control elements derived from pathogenic plant viruses such as the cauliflower mosaic virus to switch on the genes.

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.

Based on a plant - based class of molecules known as indoline alkaloids, the compound inhibits an enzyme called polymerase, which enables a virus to make thousands of copies of itself and cause disease, explains Claire Marie Filone, the study's lead author.

The agency decided the mushroom was not subject to regulations on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) because, unlike previous genetic engineering techniques, gene editing does not insert foreign DNA from viruses or bacteria to alter a plant's function.

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.

We invite original innovative research on the rational engineering of plant systems at all levels, including proteins, protein complexes, sensors, metabolic and signalling pathways, microcompartments such as carboxysomes, subcellular compartments, cell types or tissues, as well as the engineering of novel plant hybrid species and the interactions of plants with viruses, bacteria, and other organisms.

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

Cell Host & Microbe will publish novel findings related to microbes (which includes bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses) from molecular and cellular biology to translational studies with particular emphasis on the interface between the microbe and its host (vertebrate, invertebrate, or plant; unicellular or multicellular).

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