Sentences with phrase «tiniest known viruses»

Wilson, the sporting goods manufacturer, has nanoengineered layers of clay to double the playing life of its Double Core tennis balls; L'Oréal uses nanoscale particles and capsules in their cosmetic creams that allow replenishing ingredients to penetrate deep into the skin; and the Australian company Advanced Powder Technology has created Zinclear, a translucent zinc oxide sunblock composed of nanoparticles as small as the tiniest known viruses.

Not exact matches

A tiny dose of the proper, healthy RPE65 gene was inserted into a «gentle» virus known as adeno - associated virus (AAV), and the gene - carrying virus was injected by Maguire into the retina of one of Cannata's eyes.

The virus was a tiny, barely known annoyance.

Thomas G. Bernhardt of Texas A&M University and his colleagues found the protein in a tiny virus, or phage, known as Q Beta.

The findings suggest that the lethal power of the virus — known for infecting and killing cells in the brains of fetuses, causing babies to be born with tiny, misshapen heads — could be directed at malignant cells in the brain.

Zimmer: E. coli is actually not very simple; it's tiny, but it has got about 4,000 genes; and, you know, there are other bacteria that just have a few hundred and, you know, viruses may have just a handful of genes.

The comprehensive phylogenomic analysis compares giant viruses that infect amoeba with tiny viruses known as virophages and to several groups of transposable elements.

These attach to tiny physical structures on the outside of a virus known as receptors.