Sentences with phrase «protect against specific diseases»

Using a modified version of the CRISPR genome - editing system, MIT researchers have developed a new way to screen for genes that protect against specific diseases.

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.

It often doesn't even protect against the specific disease strains in your area.

Not exact matches

To protect the infant against illness, breast milk contains antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and antiprotozoal factors as well as antibodies to many specific disease organisms.

Breastfeeding is the ultimate nutrition because it supplies all the necessary nutrients for proper development, protects your baby against illness and disease, it fights against allergies and obesity, it's easily digested, and breast milk caters to your baby's specific needs through their saliva!

The article is about how specific genetic changes that either cause disease or protect against disease can help researchers trace human migrations over thousands of years.

The study, published in Scientific Reports, demonstrated that animals injected with synthetic DNA engineered to encode a specific neutralizing antibody against the dengue virus were capable of producing the exact antibodies necessary to protect against disease, without the need for standard antigen - based vaccination.

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes discovered that changing a specific part of the huntingtin protein prevented the loss of critical brain cells and protected against behavioral symptoms in a mouse model of the disease.

For example, centenarians not only have retarded biological ages, they're also more likely to carry specific gene variations (called single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs) that protect against disease.

Changing a specific part of the huntingtin protein prevented the loss of critical brain cells and protected against behavioral symptoms in a mouse model of the disease.

Vaccines help protect against specific infectious diseases caused by some viruses and bacteria.

It is a preparation designed to provide protection against a specific infectious disease through stimulating an immune response that will protect the cat if it is subsequently exposed to the infection.

The other core feline vaccine protects cats against feline specific diseases.

Each vaccine contains antigens for a specific disease, and the vaccine resembles the organism of the disease it protects against.