Sentences with phrase «target organism»
The phrase "target organism" refers to a living thing, like a plant or an animal, that is the focus of study or treatment. It is the specific organism that researchers or scientists are interested in or trying to affect in some way. Full definition
Noninvasive genetic sampling enables biomonitoring without the need to directly observe or disturb target organisms.
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When Boeke met with Sc2.0 colleagues last summer to discuss their next target organism, San Francisco, California — based futurist Andrew Hessel of the software company Autodesk «sort of made this impassioned speech» for a new human genome project that would capture the public's imagination and inspire the field around a single goal, Boeke says.
Each DNA fragment was designed to bind to one end of complementary DNA from the target organism: the anthrax bacterium.
Now, investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have developed a promising method of identifying new antimicrobials that target these organisms.
An alternative approach, most common for anti-infectives, is to use compounds («phenotypic inhibitors») which have already been shown to be active against the target organism in the living pathogenic cell as chemical leads for improvement by Medicinal Chemistry, towards systemically active Candidate Drugs.
They'll kill the target organism that might be causing your infection which is a good thing... but they also do a lot of harm to the good bacterial populations that are there.
«If amoebae turn out to be the «Trojan horse» of plague bacteria by keeping Y. pestis under cover until conditions are favorable for an outbreak, control measures can target these organisms,» said Dr. Vadyvaloo.