Sentences with phrase «study human influenzas»

«The influenza field is largely fixated on studying pandemic or potential pandemic viruses, but those viruses only infect a few dozen people every year whereas seasonal flu infects millions — and yet we don't study human influenzas closely enough.»

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«You render the most pathogenic influenza virus known to humans nontransmissible — that's fascinating,» says bioengineer Ram Sasisekharan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was not part of the study.

Weiner, Elliott and colleagues studied the DNA sequences for two human monoclonal antibodies — one able to broadly target influenza A viruses and one able to broadly target influenza B viruses — with collaborators at Inovio and MedImmune.

The study, led by Nancy J. Cox of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention describes a molecular analysis of the novel influenza A (H1N1) virus infecting humans in several parts of the world.

If further studies in humans prove successful, this research could have broad implications for the prevention of influenza and, by extension, as an approach for other infectious diseases as well.

A new study has found that a novel avian - origin H7N9 influenza A virus, which has recently emerged in humans, attaches moderately or abundantly to the epithelium of both the upper and lower respiratory tracts.

It's been well researched, by studies, by world organizations, by the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, other organizations that have all unanimously come to the conclusion that consumption of pork is not a risk factor for transmission of influenza virus from swine to human.

To date, most studies have focused on the influenza A virus lineages because they are the more commonly circulating lineages in humans which have also caused occasional pandemics.

«The whole purpose is to study the responses of human and animal bodies to infection from influenza, Ebola, SARS and MERS, and to understand how they occur,» Kawaoka explains.

A new study, led by Assistant Professor Vijay Dhanasekaran and Associate Professor Gavin Smith from Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke - NUS), has presented the largest comparative analysis of human influenza B viruses undertaken to date.

The study made many headlines, in part because of the fear that the H5N1 avian influenza virus, which so far transmits poorly between humans, could undergo a similarly fateful transformation.

The loss was bad for the vaccine: In a series of experiments Hensley and his colleagues showed antibodies from humans and ferrets (a good animal model for influenza A studies) that had been exposed to the egg - grown vaccine did not effectively kill the circulating sugar - adorned viruses.

Human challenge studies with influenza provide a glimpse of the new landscape.

As a controversial study of the H5N1 avian influenza virus published online today in Science shows, researchers are keenly interested in how mutations in the virus» genes might enable it to become transmissible in humans.

Avian influenza virus H7N9, which killed several dozen people in China earlier this year, has not yet acquired the changes needed to infect humans easily, according to a new study by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI).

The mouse is described in a study, «In vivo evasion of MxA by avian influenza viruses requires human signature in the viral nucleoprotein,» that will be published April 10 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

To capture the early spatial patterns of a newly emergent virus in swine populations prior to extensive geographical mixing, this study focused on an H1 influenza virus that was introduced twice from humans into swine around 2003.

Deep Sequencing of Influenza A Virus from a Human Challenge Study Reveals a Selective Bottleneck and Only Limited Intrahost Genetic Diversification.

LA JOLLA, CA — December 5, 2013 — Avian influenza virus H7N9, which killed several dozen people in China earlier this year, has not yet acquired the changes needed to infect humans easily, according to a new study by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI).

Specifically, we will test samples from aged and, as a control, younger human subject before and after vaccination with the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) in an exploratory / confirmatory study design to assess age - related responsiveness to the vaccine.

The study relates to a particular type of vaccine (killed) against a particular virus, influenza, though the findings might hold true for other killed vaccines and for those vaccines consisting only of proteins produced by GM in bacteria, yeast or insect cells, against diseases such as hepatitis B (HBV) and human papilloma virus (HPV, the causative agent of cervical cancer).

A recent study led by BSI member Professor Andrew Sewell from Cardiff University and published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation showed that a synthetic «mirror image» version of a protein belonging to the influenza A virus generated strong immune responses in human cells and mice, with the mice also being protected when exposed to a strain of influenza A.

The study, «Preferential Recognition of Avian - Like Receptors in Human Influenza A H7N9 Viruses,» received support from the National Institutes for Health (R56 AI099275), the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, the Scripps Microarray Core Facility, the Centers for Disease Control and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

MIT study identifies influenza viruses circulating in pigs and birds that could pose a risk to humans.