Sentences with phrase «wild strains»

In addition to the preservation of wild strains of crop plants there is the possibility of discovering altogether new crops.

These laboratory strains could be passed between mammals more easily than wild strains of the virus.

He also found that the starch grains and raphides from the tools were similar to those from domesticated taro strains but different from those from wild strains.

«An industry scientist, Bill Sheridan of BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, cautioned that new flu drugs must be tested on wild strains to look for resistance, which is one way of enhancing a virus,» Kaiser wrote.

Working with a little - studied wild strain, however, caused a rethink of the genes» supposedly beneficial role «that flipped it on its head,» says UCLA geneticist Leonid Kruglyak.

Working under a microscope, the scientists watched interactions between pairs of these spores from 110 genetically different wild strains of the fungus.

Todd is a certified California Naturalist interested in the ecological relationships that affect wild strains of worms used as model organisms.

During a fortnight in April this year, 155 countries successfully switched from trivalent to bivalent oral polio vaccine, which protects against the two remaining wild strains (type 1 and 3), making this the largest coordinated vaccine withdrawal in history.

Real time PCR of fetal tissue samples confirmed EHV - 1 wild strain infection.

An initial case of EHV - 1 reported last week, and also being treated in isolation at OSU, only had the more common wild strain of the virus.

An industry scientist, Bill Sheridan of BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, cautioned that new flu drugs must be tested on wild strains to look for resistance, which is one way of enhancing a virus.

Regardless, this hybridized four - seater is an excellent use of the 918 Spyder's wild strains of DNA, sensibility be damned.

The Chocolate Bhut Jolokia is a wild strain found in Assam India.

Akerboom cultured from it a wild strain of yeast and brewed a hip, new beer.

Several months ago a wild strain of the virus surfaced in a sewer system in Rahat in southern Israel, and now it has reportedly been detected throughout the country.

Considering the wild strain's greater numbers and increased severity, «it's actually a two - for - one strategy that the organism gets with this toxin,» Musser says.

There are also signs that some wild strains of H5N1 have developed resistance to antiviral drugs.

While the laboratory strain of Dicty grazes contentedly on bacteria provided for it by its keepers, roughly a third of the wild strains turned out to be primitive farmers.

This approach is preferable to the study of natural variation for two reasons: 1) It is orders of magnitude more difficult to identify natural causative mutations due to the extensive number of candidate polymorphisms between two wild strains and 2) natural, segregating polymorphisms are a subset of mutations that can survive the sieve of selection.

The whole point of using a starter — besides fermenting the quinoa — is to protect it from mold and wild strains that may not be so awesome for the body.

Two more cases have been identified of horses with the wild strain, that are not showing signs of neurologic disease, and they are being treated at their home stables in Polk County.

Back in 2007, researchers refined a heat - seeking rod - shaped bacterium of the geobacillus family, which is 300 times more effective at making ethanol than its wild strain counterpart.