Sentences with phrase «virologist yoshihiro»

The findings open the door for more such genetic studies on influenza that have not been possible before, says virologist Robert Webster of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

would have been the 100th birthday of Frank Burnet, an Australian immunologist and virologist who explained how the body's immune system distinguishes between «self» and «nonself.»

«These are important experiments», says virologist Peter Palese of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, who was not involved in the work.

To explore the genetic diversity of MERS, virologist Paul Kellam of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, United Kingdom, and an international team of colleagues sequenced viral genomes sampled from 21 patients in Saudi Arabia between June 2012 and June 2013.

So virologist Yanping Chen and geneticist Jay Evans, both of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, headed to their freezers.

In spring 2003, the virologist at Hong Kong University (HKU) isolated the SARS virus from masked palm civets in a wild animal market in China's Guangdong Province.

Liv Bode, a virologist at the Robert Koch Institut in Berlin whose team was the first to isolate the virus from patients, welcomes the findings as a «solid piece of work that fits the picture and lends further support to the existence of human [strains of] BDV.»

That's a good idea, because discrepancies between labs are common, says David Griffiths, a virologist at Moredun Research Institute in Midlothian, United Kingdom, who has studied previous claims for retroviruses as the cause of chronic diseases.

Today would have been the 98th birthday of Frank Burnet, an Australian immunologist and virologist who explained how the body's immune system distinguishes between «self» and «nonself.»

«This is a tremendous advance» in understanding exactly how SARS spreads from animals to humans, says virologist Kathryn Holmes of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.

That knowledge, combined with earlier research by Rey and others, could hint at novel ways to block the virus from infecting cells, says virologist John Roehrig of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Vector - Borne Diseases in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Being able to identify infections early — when a patient is mildly ill, but contagious — is a key to slowing the outbreak, says WHO virologist Klaus Stöhr.

In a separate paper, virologist Mark Gibbs and his colleagues at Australian National University in Canberra report that a key gene in the virus that caused the 1918 pandemic is part pig, part human.

So when virologist Albert Osterhaus of Erasmus University in Rotterdam and his colleagues carried out routine tests in 12 stranded, sick seal pups, it came as a surprise when they found the B virus in one animal, and antibodies to it in another.

«I'm flabbergasted,» adds virologist Christopher Broder, a member of the National Institutes of Health team that in 1996 published a detailed analysis of how CCR5 works as an HIV «coreceptor» (Science, 10 May 1996, p. 872, and 28 June 1996, p. 1955).

«This study demonstrates successful aerosol vaccination against a viral hemorrhagic fever for the first time,» said virologist Alex Bukreyev, UTMB professor and a senior author.

In March, John Connor, a virologist at the Boston University School of Medicine, and his team identified a synthetic compound that appears to shut down replication in Ebola and other members of the nonsegmented, negative strand (NNS) RNA virus family.

And some of those mutations were the same as ones found in flu viruses circulating around the world a few years later, evolutionary virologist Jesse Bloom of the Fred...

Mbalu Fonnie, a licensed nurse midwife and the nursing supervisor of the KGH Lassa Ward, was «matron of nursing at KGH,» says Robert Garry, a study co-author and virologist at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

But tests at Institut Pasteur du Cambodge in Phnom Penh point to hand, foot, and mouth disease, a contagious and sometimes fatal illness, head virologist Philippe Buchy wrote ScienceInsider in an e-mail.

Virologist Bart Haagmans of Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, says he has submitted a letter to NEJM to point out this issue, as well as what he claims are errors in the phylogenetic tree in Madani's paper.

«It takes time to shut down research, and it takes time to start it back up,» said virologist Ron Fouchier of Erasmus MRC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, who led one of the controversial studies.

Estes, who works with virologist Jeffrey Lifson, has also developed a DNAscope to visualize this HIV DNA — called the provirus — which becomes integrated into human cells and can persist for decades without being attacked by the immune system or antiretroviral (ARV) drugs.

The case is another example of the complex politics of MERS research in Saudi Arabia, says Ian Mackay, a virologist at the University of Queensland, St. Lucia, in Australia, who first highlighted the similarities between the two papers on his blog on 5 June.

A virologist who worked on biodefense vaccines and was active in South Carolina politics has been charged with making illegal campaign contributions and using research grants to defraud the U.S. government.

«We weren't trying to say HIV was still there or he hadn't been cured,» says virologist Steven Yukl of the University of California, San Francisco, who gave the talk.

Raul Andino, a virologist with the UC San Francisco team, warns that their recent experiments «are just the tip of the iceberg.

Ian Lipkin, a virologist at Columbia University who's also searching for MERS in animal samples, says that the paper provides «compelling evidence that camelids [a group that includes camels, llamas, and alpacas] may be implicated.»

«You should not take political correctness so far that in the end no one is able to distinguish these diseases,» says Christian Drosten, a virologist at the University of Bonn, Germany.

(Thomas Briese, a virologist at Columbia University, agrees that it seems unlikely for the mutations to appear twice but says he can not exclude that possibility.)

Caught in the uncomfortable middle is German virologist Christian Drosten of the University of Bonn, who helped both and became a co-author on Memish's paper.

Acronyms are another good solution, says Ab Osterhaus, a virologist at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, because they keep names short (another WHO recommendation) and people often forget what the letters stand for.

Indeed, weakening influenza strains by passaging them in animals is an old technique for making human vaccines, including those for polio and yellow fever, according to virologist Vincent Racaniello of Columbia University.

Virologist Earl Brown of the University of Ottawa points out that passaging a virus from one animal to another increases the virulence of the germ for the newly infected species and decreases its virulence for the original host.

The study «tackles a question that is of great pragmatic importance for vaccines,» says virologist Gary Nabel in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who is the chief scientific officer at Sanofi, which makes influenza vaccines.

The virologist at the University of Marburg in Germany is part of a consortium of scientists that is ready to do a safety trial of one of the candidate vaccines for Ebola.

The guide is well intentioned, but goes too far, says Ian Lipkin, a virologist at Columbia University.

«When we study the interactions between the host cell and the virus, we get information about both of them and about how cellular machinery is working under viral infection,» says Alessia Ruggieri, a group leader and virologist at University of Heidelberg in Germany and senior researcher on the study.

«There clearly are going to be instances where gain - of - function research is necessary and appropriate, and there are others where the opposite applies,» says Ian Lipkin, a virologist at Columbia University in New York City.

«You certainly can't do a $ 100 million study for every candidate vaccine that appears safe and immunogenic,» says Mark Mulligan, a molecular virologist who heads the vaccine center at Emory University in Atlanta and does human challenges with norovirus and tuberculosis.

It's the first time scientists have seen such rearrangement in the core of a flavivirus, the group that also includes the viruses that cause dengue, West Nile and yellow fever, says virologist Richard Kuhn of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind..

The new study, published online today in mBio, is an attempt to answer other basic questions, such as where the virus originated, how it enters cells, and what other animals it might infect, says Christian Drosten, a virologist at the University of Bonn Medical Center in Germany and one of the lead authors.

You have to be a population biologist, a botanist, an ecologist, a biophysicist, a biochemist, a microbiologist, a molecular biologist, a bioengineer, a geneticist, an evolutionary biologist, a developmental biologist, a zoologist, an anatomist, a pathologist, a virologist, an ichthyologist, a herpetologist, an ornithologist, a paleontologist, an exobiologist, or you - get - the - gist.

And from there the virus could spread further still, says Jim Le Duc, a virologist and epidemiologist working for the WHO.

Julian Tang, a clinical virologist at the United Kingdom's University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, notes that the humidity and temperature data used in the study come from outdoor weather monitoring stations, whereas it's believed most flu transmission occurs indoors.

One factor, says virologist Charles Calisher of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, may be that the virus is hitting Reunion for the first time, so almost no one has resistance.

Testing will be repeated at the National Institute of Virology in Tokyo, says Australian virologist John Mackenzie, who is temporarily coordinating SARS research at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva.

Researchers weren't sure why microcephaly suddenly became a complication of Zika infections, says Pei - Yong Shi, a virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

«In this study, we demonstrated the central role of a T - cell protein called Tim - 1 in the development of Ebola virus disease,» said senior author Alexander Bukreyev, a UTMB virologist in the departments of pathology and microbiology and immunology.

«It's made a big jump,» says virologist Robert Tesh of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.