Sentences with phrase «retroviruses like»

Retroviruses like Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV) and Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) can be devastating to your cat.

Marley's Cat Tales is a cat rescue dedicated to stopping the cycle of retroviruses like FeLV (feline leukemia) and FIV (feline immunodeficiency virus) by educating the public and promoting awareness.

My laboratory seeks to better understand the pathological interplay of human retroviruses like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and human T - cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) with their cellular hosts with the goal of providing new approaches for prophylaxis and therapy.

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

But when retroviruses like HIV infect a cell, they often let the cell live and splice their genes into its DNA.

In recent research published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Saint Louis University investigators report catching integrase, the part of retroviruses like HIV that is responsible for insertion of the viral DNA into human cell DNA, in the presence of a drug designed to thwart it.

(RNA viruses use ribonucleic acid as their genetic material; examples include SARS, polio, and retroviruses like HIV.)

Not exact matches

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

Again, parasitic elements like endogenous retroviruses and tandem repeats which generally do not appear to contribute to functionality (but can actually lead to various diseases) represent a significant portion of our genomes.

But in a Frankenstein - like maneuver, French molecular geneticists led by Thierry Heidmann of the Gustave - Roussy Institute have now reassembled one of these long - lost retroviruses into its original infectious form.

Like all retroviruses, HIV has very few genes of its own and must take over the host's cellular machinery in order to propagate and spread throughout the body.

«That didn't make any sense at all to a virologist, because retroviruses have nothing to do with these negative - strand RNA viruses» like Nipah and Ebola, he says.

These jumping genes behave like retroviruses, except that they never produce the protein coats that allow retroviruses to leave one cell and go to infect another.

They searched the fluid for traces of RNA indicating the presence of different classes of retroviruses, RNA viruses that, like HIV, copy their sequence into the genome of infected organisms.

None of the proteins protect against HIV - 2, which came to us from apes like HIV - 1 did, she says, but humans have apparently fended off nearly 40 other monkey retroviruses, so our innate immunity «wasn't quite as bad as you thought.»

When researchers sequenced the chimpanzee genome in 2005, the biggest difference between it and the human genome was the extinct PtERV1 retrovirus, which inserted its DNA into the cells it infected like HIV does today.

They have known for many years that HIV, like other retroviruses, needs help from its host's cellular machinery — for example, to transcribe its genetic material.

Although the simian foamy virus (SFV) is not known to cause disease or to spread between humans, researchers say the virus is something to monitor closely; given enough time, it could evolve into something more dangerous — just like its two retrovirus cousins, one of which sparked the AIDS pandemic.

«The retrovirus we used is replication - deficient and thus can not kill infected cells like other viruses found in the wild,» Chen said.

By the beginning of the 1990s, researchers were just beginning to understand retroviruses — those like HIV that reproduce by inserting their DNA into a host's genome.

Exosomes, endogenous retroviruses and toll - like receptors: pregnancy recognition in ewes.

These results suggest that the full - length XMRV genome is present in all 3 clinical samples, and argue against the possibility of mixed infection with other MLV - like retroviruses.

Cadenza Interactive will be joining the likes of Crate Entertainment, Double Fine, and countless others as they seek some additional funding for their upcoming «six - axis» co-op shooter, Retrovirus.

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.

Feline Leukemia virus is a retrovirus (like HIV) that can cause leukemia, lymphoma, anemia (low blood cell count), and secondary infections in cats.