Sentences with phrase «small viruses»

The lens can be used to see objects on the scale of small viruses.

Another — a scenario championed by Koonin — presents the idea that giant viruses arose from smaller viruses.

«AAV is a really small virus and CRISPR is relatively large,» said Gersbach.

So we looked for a very small virus.

Overall, the team's findings lend credence to the theory that giant viruses evolved from much smaller viruses, rather than aligning with theories that they may instead be descended from a cellular ancestor.

The researchers speculate that this virus — which infects Cafeteria roenbergensis, a predatory single - celled organism that eats other viruses and bacteria in the ocean — takes a more active role in making its proteins than do smaller viruses like HIV or herpesviruses.

«Giant viruses may simply be a «Frankenstein» of smaller viruses.»

Of course, small viruses or colds might not have a direct correlation to breast milk, but if breast milk is lacking in nutrients, a child that gets sick a lot could be a telltale sign.

To find out, the biologists developed a way to incorporate the gene for the human L - type photopigment into a small virus known as adeno - associated virus.

But the small viruses that deliver therapeutic genes can have adverse side effects at high doses.

The natural forms of these small viruses normally infect people without causing disease.

The focus of their research is «exosomes», small virus - like particles that serve as «transport packages» for genetic material and proteins transmitted between cells.

The group took the ChR2 gene, inserted it into a small virus, and infected neurons with this virus.

At that point we knew we could accurately make DNA pieces of 5,000 base pairs, the size of the small viruses.

The documentary revealed new information about the small virus, called adeno - associated virus (AAV).

«In this scenario, a smaller virus infected different eukaryote hosts and picked up genes encoding translational machinery components from independent sources over long periods of time through piecemeal acquisition,» she said.

Just imagine: An optical lens so powerful that it lets you view features the size of a small virus on the surface of a...

Some small viruses, called «virophages» help their hosts protecting against other giant viruses.

Parvo derives from the Latin word «parvus» which means small; indeed, measuring only 20 to 26 nanometers in diameter, this is one of the smallest viruses on earth.

Feline calicivirus (FCV) is a small virus that mainly causes acute upper respiratory infections (URIs) in cats, although it has been associated with some other diseases also (see below).

New research highlights the opportunities and some potential missteps of this exciting field.Life is built at the nanoscale, from the smallest virus to the largest sequoia.

They drift in Earth's atmosphere from the stratosphere to the surface and range in size from a few nanometers — less than the width of the smallest viruses — to several several tens of micrometers — about the diameter of human hair.