Sentences with phrase «virus used in the study»

They spread up to 190 times more of a noninfectious test virus used in the study than the other methods.

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The manufacturer of the sole dengue vaccine on the market says a new study shows that it should only be used in people who have had a previous infection from the mosquito - borne virus.

In the new study, researchers at the NIAID used a virus - like particle vaccine cocktail that expressed a handful of different subtypes of a key surface protein of the influenza virus: hemagglutinin H1, H3, H5 and H7.

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.

In the new study, Duke University researchers overcame several of these obstacles by using a non-pathogenic carrier called adeno - associated virus, or AAV, to deliver the gene - editing system.

Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host cells.

«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.

In a study published in the May 29, 2014, edition of Molecular Ecology Resources, Duke researchers Peter Larsen, Ryan Campbell and Anne Yoder used high - throughput sequencing on sifaka blood samples to generate sequence data for more than 150,000 different sifaka antibodies — protective molecules that latch on to bacteria, viruses and other foreign invaders in the body and fight them off before they cause infectioIn a study published in the May 29, 2014, edition of Molecular Ecology Resources, Duke researchers Peter Larsen, Ryan Campbell and Anne Yoder used high - throughput sequencing on sifaka blood samples to generate sequence data for more than 150,000 different sifaka antibodies — protective molecules that latch on to bacteria, viruses and other foreign invaders in the body and fight them off before they cause infectioin the May 29, 2014, edition of Molecular Ecology Resources, Duke researchers Peter Larsen, Ryan Campbell and Anne Yoder used high - throughput sequencing on sifaka blood samples to generate sequence data for more than 150,000 different sifaka antibodies — protective molecules that latch on to bacteria, viruses and other foreign invaders in the body and fight them off before they cause infectioin the body and fight them off before they cause infection.

Earn's team used these findings to estimate how much more virus people with ordinary flu might produce if their fevers were suppressed, and used epidemiological studies in people to estimate how many more cases of flu this might cause.

Appearing in the journal's February 2015 issue, the study, «Phylogenetic visualization of the spread of H7 influenza A viruses» uses genomic analysis to look at the phylogenetic history of genes that assort with H7 influenza.

In the meantime, the technology can be used by scientists to study viruses in a research settinIn the meantime, the technology can be used by scientists to study viruses in a research settinin a research setting.

For their research, Pekosz and his team, using human nasal tract cells, studied the weakened strain of the flu virus that is used in the nasal spray vaccine and compared its behavior with that of the flu virus itself.

Preliminary results from his latest mouse studies show that an herb used in traditional Chinese medicine supplies a microRNA that combats the flu virus in the lungs.

Unlike other human antibodies under investigation that recognize both Zika and the closely related dengue virus, the antibodies used in this study exclusively target Zika, demonstrating a high specificity that could be important in avoiding potential side effects — such as enhanced dengue infection in regions where both viruses are endemic.

By examining the structure presented in this study, her team will work to determine how the antibodies could be used to kill the virus.

Like 80 % of humans infected with the Zika virus, most of the non-human primates used in this study lacked any apparent clinical symptoms.

A new study publishing May 21 in Cell Reports has an explanation: The surface proteins that the measles virus uses to enter cells are ineffective if they suffer any mutation, meaning that any changes to the virus come at a major cost.

Practical applications in use include studies of tumor growth in cancer research and locating where viruses and bacteria hide.

For the first time, scientists have used Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging to study brain inflammation following Zika virus infection in mice, according to a study recently published online in the journal Molecular Imaging and Biology.

As public health officials worry that the increase of opioid use among young adults has helped to spread the hepatitis C virus to a new generation, a study in Rhode Island finds that while screening is common, the follow - up measures needed to stop the spread of the virus are significantly less so.

Dr. Jones obtained his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Birmingham Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences (United Kingdom) under Professor Lawrence Young, studying the use of gene therapy for targeting Epstein - Barr Virus (EBV) proteins with replication - competent adenoviruses to treat EBV - driven malignancies.

Though the viruses under study are too dangerous to manipulate in the Penn Vet lab, Harty's team was nonetheless able to examine the interactions between host and viral proteins by looking at what are known as virus - like particles, or VLPs, produced using the virus» matrix protein, of which PTAP is a part.

In the study, researchers used the blood of seven people who survived Ebola Bundibugyo virus infection during the 2007 outbreak in Uganda to isolate a large number of B cells that produce antibodies, which are the small protein molecules capable of inactivating the viruIn the study, researchers used the blood of seven people who survived Ebola Bundibugyo virus infection during the 2007 outbreak in Uganda to isolate a large number of B cells that produce antibodies, which are the small protein molecules capable of inactivating the viruin Uganda to isolate a large number of B cells that produce antibodies, which are the small protein molecules capable of inactivating the virus.

Although the model system studied here used protein from a species of herpes virus — which is only transmitted between squirrel monkeys, without actually doing much harm to them — these monkey herpes viruses are structurally very similar to viruses causing Kaposi's sarcoma in humans.

In the study, fragments of the virus that were not infectious were used to study viral gene expression.

Fish has long studied the broad antiviral properties of interferon α, and in 2003 she used it on patients infected with another epidemic virus, SARS; a paper she published in The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that it appeared to help them.

For the current study, first authors Andrew Walton and Jared Muenzer, MD, used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing to detect a range of viruses in blood and urine samples from 560 critically ill patients with sepsis, who were treated in the surgical and medical intensive care units at Barnes - Jewish Hospital.

This is the first time these pathways have been studied in live mosquitoes with dengue virus, although similar studies have been conducted under controlled conditions using cells cultured in the lab.

In a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sangeeta Bhatia of MIT and Charles Rice of Rockefeller University describe using microfabricated cell cultures to sustain hepatitis B virus in human liver cells, allowing them to study immune responses and drug treatmentIn a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sangeeta Bhatia of MIT and Charles Rice of Rockefeller University describe using microfabricated cell cultures to sustain hepatitis B virus in human liver cells, allowing them to study immune responses and drug treatmentin the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sangeeta Bhatia of MIT and Charles Rice of Rockefeller University describe using microfabricated cell cultures to sustain hepatitis B virus in human liver cells, allowing them to study immune responses and drug treatmentin human liver cells, allowing them to study immune responses and drug treatments.

Kang's primary research focuses on designing and developing effective vaccines against viral diseases such as influenza virus and RSV, but he partnered with a university and research institutes in South Korea that wanted international collaborative projects to study if ginseng can be used to improve health and protect against disease because of the potential benefit in fighting these viruses.

They based their approach on a system they had previously developed for studying the hepatitis C virus, in which they were able to successfully infect human hepatocytes with the virus and use it to compare antiviral regimens.

In future research, we will be using the technique to study integrase proteins of other viruses.»

The device has made it possible for researchers to study bacteria and viruses in the field, but its high error - rate and large sequencing gaps have, until now, limited its use on human cells with their billions of nucleotides.

In an ambitious study, the authors attempt to trace drug resistance against all strains of the flu by using an extensive influenza virus database containing all known genetic sequence information (70,000 complete nucleotide sequences) for influenza strains.

But neither team has yet shown that their bispecific antibodies can actually reduce reservoirs of HIV in monkeys, which are commonly used to study the AIDS virus.

In a series of studies this year, molecular geneticists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine used a harmless virus to ferry new genes through the bloodstream, across blood vessel walls, and into almost every muscle cell in the bodies of hamsters bred to have human genetic diseaseIn a series of studies this year, molecular geneticists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine used a harmless virus to ferry new genes through the bloodstream, across blood vessel walls, and into almost every muscle cell in the bodies of hamsters bred to have human genetic diseasein the bodies of hamsters bred to have human genetic diseases.

In the study, which began in 2011, an adeno - associated virus vector was used to carry a functional copy of the affected gene to muscle cells in the diaphragms of nine patientIn the study, which began in 2011, an adeno - associated virus vector was used to carry a functional copy of the affected gene to muscle cells in the diaphragms of nine patientin 2011, an adeno - associated virus vector was used to carry a functional copy of the affected gene to muscle cells in the diaphragms of nine patientin the diaphragms of nine patients.

A study in the journal Science illustrates how genetically engineered viruses can be used to assemble an anode and cathode to make a new kind of battery.

In addition, the Zika virus strain used in this study (MR766) originated in Uganda, while the current Zika outbreak in Latin America involves a slightly different strain that originated in AsiIn addition, the Zika virus strain used in this study (MR766) originated in Uganda, while the current Zika outbreak in Latin America involves a slightly different strain that originated in Asiin this study (MR766) originated in Uganda, while the current Zika outbreak in Latin America involves a slightly different strain that originated in Asiin Uganda, while the current Zika outbreak in Latin America involves a slightly different strain that originated in Asiin Latin America involves a slightly different strain that originated in Asiin Asia.

Although the experiment used an older Ebola virus that differs from the strain now in West Africa, the researchers showed in a test - tube study that ZMapp also worked against the more recently isolated virus.

Because the Ebola virus - like particles used for screening different drugs in this study were not fully infectious, Level 4 was not required.The viral mini-genome generated modifies the Ebola virus to produce virus - like particles that are no longer harmful to humans.

Curtis Suttle, an environmental microbiologist and senior author of the study in mBio, says scientists previously had never seen a virus use a CRISPR array in this manner.

The screening procedure — used in the U.S. to model and study virus replication — allows for continuing evaluation of new antivirals or anti-Ebola drugs, since there is a likelihood of future Ebola outbreaks.

The CTV used in the study, Ad.tCCN1 - CTV - m7, is a modified adenovirus — the kind of virus that typically causes mild respiratory infections.

Consequently, WHO researchers plan to try to isolate the viral samples from the semen used in the study to determine if the virus is live and capable of infecting other patients.

Cas12a, the protein used in this study, then cuts the invading DNA, saving the bacteria from being taken over by the virus.

Unlike other mice used to study the virus, the Hopkins mice have completely intact immune systems more similar to humans, which enable researchers to see all that is involved in mounting an immune response.

This type of virus has been used several times before in research studies.

He adds that the stem cells used in the study have advantages over reprogrammed skin cells, including eliminating the tricky business of inducing the cells to become muscle cells, but he notes that both types of cells could pose risks because the virus used to modify them could cause cancer.