Sentences with phrase «using plant viruses»

He is also on the Science advisory board of Nomad Biosciences in Halle, Germany, which aims to produce human pharmaceutical and other valuable proteins using plant viruses rather than GM plants.

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Farmers are also more likely to use cuttings from their existing trees to plant new ones, which could facilitate the spread of diseases such as swollen shoot virus.

To help reduce mosaic virus, use these cultural methods: plant virus - free seed, remove weeds, control insects, remove plants showing virus symptoms, and plant resistant varieties.

Avoid using tobacco in any form to help protect plants against tobacco mosaic virus.

Together with researchers at the CNRS, the group has demonstrated the efficacy of RNA - based vaccines produced using the new method against plant virus infections.

As a proof of concept for this study, the researchers tested the plant virus - derived nanoparticles with a nematicide called crystal violet, which has been used to kill nematodes on skin but not in agriculture.

«We use biological nanoparticles — a plant virus — to deliver a pesticide,» said Paul Chariou, a PhD student in biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve and author of a study on the process published in the journal ACS Nano.

Sek Man Wong, a plant pathologist at the National University of Singapore, is using RNA interference to splice virus RNA into the plant's genetic blueprint.

In the Baulcombe lab, Voinnet analyzed the in vivo dynamics of gene silencing using transgenic plants, recombinant viruses, and fluorescence microscopy.

In plants, fungi and insects it also is used for protection against certain viruses.

Until now, scientists were unable to prove that mammals use RNAi for killing viruses, but ironically, it was Ding's earlier research into plants, nematodes and fruit flies that helped him find the key: viruses have been outwitting that innate protection in our cells by using proteins to suppress our virus - killing mechanism.

Researchers have discovered that, like plants and invertebrate animals, mammals use the RNA interference (RNAi) process to destroy viruses within their own cells.

Developers then used genetic control elements derived from pathogenic plant viruses such as the cauliflower mosaic virus to switch on the genes.

Viral genes have been used to protect papaya plants against the ring spot virus, for example, with no sign of resistance evolving in over a decade of use in Hawaii.

Plant pathologists Dr Joan Webber, from Forest Research, the research agency of the Forestry Commission, and Professor Clive Brasier found that the defence mechanisms which the Chalara fraxinea (C. fraxinea) fungus uses to defend its territory could make it more resistant to virus - based control methods.

Gene silencing is a natural adaptive defense mechanism used by plants against viruses.

«The vision of Blake Bextine, a program manager at DARPA, was to develop insect - vectored viruses that can be used to modify crop plants to respond to emerging threats in real time,» according to Georg Jander, VIPER Project Leader and BTI professor.

Using viral genome data, they reconstructed the evolutionary history of 19 major virus families, each of which contained between 23 and 142 viruses found in diverse hosts ranging from mammals to fish to plants.

«As Program Director of Virology, he and his coworkers were at the forefront of new and fascinating studies using the electron microscope to detect and characterize viruses and phytoplasmas in cells of diseased plants and insect vectors.»

They have revealed that the plant - derived bioflavonoid quercetin, which is made use of by many people as a nutritional supplement, reduces the production of the hepatitis C virus without any cell toxicity.

UV is used by large water treatment plants because it effectively neutralize any pathogens, organisms and viruses from causing any harm.