Unlike disease-causing bacteria, boiling water doesn't help eliminate lead's threat.
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I didn't believe it was his autoimmune disease causing all this.
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By studying different breeds, the researchers can identify multiple disease-causing genes.
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But disease-causing mutations are rare, because natural selection makes them so.
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Today, nearly every disease-causing bacteria has acquired defenses against these drugs.
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But it didn't show how specific disease-causing pathogens can infect patients.
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They are identifying rare individuals in families with a disease-causing mutation.
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An alarming number of disease-causing bacteria are becoming immune to antibiotics.
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The bacteria were disease-causing strains, such as Staph and E. coli.
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By examining the sequences, they identified 18 kinds of disease-causing bacteria.
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DNA vaccine To create an inactivated vaccine, scientists kill the disease-causing microbe to create a vaccine that is more stable than live vaccines and safer too, since the dead microbes can't mutate back to their disease-causing state.
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RNAi, or RNA interference, prevents a defective gene from making disease-causing proteins.
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Global efforts to destroy disease-causing polioviruses have been quite a success story.
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Finding disease-causing genetic traits is a lot like spotting flaws in computer code.
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It happens when disease-causing germs or harmful toxins contaminate the food we eat.
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We tend to think of species that live inside hosts as disease-causing enemies.
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Worse, other fake antimalarials contain antibiotics, contributing to resistance in other disease-causing bacteria.
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The tree would not have carried any disease-causing microbes from root to fruit.
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"About half of the 32,000 known disease-causing, single-letter mutations have one of the misspellings that ABE can fix" About half of the 32,000 known disease-causing, single-letter mutations have one of the misspellings that ABE can fix, Liu said.
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Three years ago Valdiserri was diagnosed with alopecia, an autoimmune skin disease causing hair loss.
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These MCR cases are not untreatable (or even always disease-causing) for the time being.
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The US government relocated entire populations and exposed others to cancer and disease-causing radiation.
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Countries can't isolate themselves from the flow of disease-causing viruses and bacteria across borders.
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This shampoo contains both eliminates and prevents the growth of disease-causing microorganisms and bacteria.
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Hotter conditions may also be giving some disease-causing microbes greater resistance to antibiotics, Salas said.
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Crispr is still a long way from snipping disease-causing mutations from the cells of humans.
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Climate swings, Gonzalez-Socoloske added, can make animals like manatees less resilient to disease-causing pathogens.
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It doesn't only grow in quantity—the presence of pathogenic, or disease-causing bacteria increases exponentially.
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People often view bacteria as always negative and disease-causing, which is definitely not the case.
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What if you have a disease-causing mutation you could pass on to your own kids?
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Existing drugs, including monoclonal antibodies, work by trying to inactivate disease-causing proteins by binding to them.
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It works by targeting and silencing specific genetic material and blocking the production of disease-causing proteins.
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Dr. Falkow subsequently discovered that plasmids can also contain disease-causing genes and transmit them to bacteria.
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The main difference is the speed in terms of correctly identifying the etiological [or disease-causing] agent.
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Ayoub said it led Kody to develop metabolic bone disease, causing his bones to be very fragile.
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For healthy adults including Olympic athletes, innate immunity will depend on past exposure to Rio's disease-causing pathogens.
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In Africa, the concern is that discarded plastic bags also pool water that can breed disease-causing mosquitoes.
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Many disease-causing viruses, bacteria and fungi travel from one plant to another by hitching lifts on insects.
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A toothache can easily graduate into dental disease, causing pain, absenteeism from school, and even inability to eat.
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Editas Medicine, which is producing a technology that corrects disease-causing genes, gained in its market debut on Wednesday.
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Ayoub said he believes this led Koby to develop metabolic bone disease, causing Kody's bones to be very fragile.
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Reality check: There's evidence the Lyme disease-causing bacterium — Borrelia burgdorferi — has been in North America for 60,000 years.
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This likely evolved so that a disease-causing bacteria could turn off a host's immune system and take over.
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Worse yet, malicious actors might build disease-causing microbes with features strategically tailored to thwart existing health security measures.
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Lyme is just one of over a dozen disease-causing pathogens that can be passed to humans from ticks.
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The best way to make water safer is by boiling it, which will kill disease-causing bacteria and parasites.
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If disease-causing agents survive the digester, the effluent won't be safe to use on crops for human consumption.
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Researchers hope the procedure is an important step to bringing new treatments to patients with disease-causing gene mutations.
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Genes in _________ have been successfully edited to repair a common and serious disease-causing mutation for the first time.
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It turns out that they may have an immune system that lets them coexist with many disease-causing viruses.
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Mercifully, there is no evidence that H. ducreyi is becoming resistant to antibiotics, as are many disease-causing bacteria.
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"The probiotics found in yogurt help to keep our intestinal tracts free of disease-causing bacteria and germs," says Rumsey.
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ADA-SCID is an inherited disorder that damages the immune system's ability to fight disease-causing bacteria, viruses and fungi.
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Even harmless bacteria can loan other disease-causing bacteria their resistance genes through free-moving bits of DNA called plasmids.
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When looking at disease-causing agents, the researchers were specifically looking at vibrios—bacteria that float around in sea water.
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But, left untreated, it can result in pelvic inflammatory disease, causing damage to a woman's reproductive system and even infertility.
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But other studies have suggested that disease-causing strains of bacteria or virus could be passed along with our currency.
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Of greater concern is whether the practice could expose babies to some disease-causing bacteria in the bypassed birth canal.
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In very rare cases, severe infestations of some ant species have been found to spread disease-causing microbes in hospitals.
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The gobbets, he says, are disease-causing "negativities," though we know they are actually chicken guts marinated in fake blood.
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Based on these genetic similarities, the team estimated the ISS strains were 79 percent likely to be disease-causing, or pathogenic.
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Over on Helix's DNA marketplace, you'll soon be able to request your own clinical tests for 59 disease-causing genetic mutations.
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This particular germ tends to be nastier than other strains of disease-causing E. coli, thanks largely to the Shiga toxin.
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With this method, researchers say they hope to accurately and efficiently correct up to 89% of known disease-causing genetic variations.
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But several high-profile ingredients demonized cancer- or disease-causing toxins have been proven to be perfectly safe in moderate amounts.
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"Chances are that you are not effectively removing all the disease-causing germs that are lurking on them," Borwein tells Insider.
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Alternately, sometimes scientists will genetically modify the virus instead, swapping bits of the disease-causing pathogen into a harmless virus shell.
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Genes in human embryos have been successfully edited to repair a common and serious disease-causing mutation for the first time.
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In short, researchers were able to tinker with embryos in order to repair DNA and help fend off disease-causing mutations.
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NASA called a strong immune system critical for lengthy space missions to safeguard astronauts from disease-causing microbes in the spacecraft environment.
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For the first time ever, scientists genetically engineered a human embryo on American soil in order to remove a disease-causing mutation.
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Inside a cartridge, tiny strips of paper are embedded with a synthetic gene network that senses disease-causing microbes, among other things.
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This may affect the downstream analysis, like doing more studies on the disease-causing cells, and possibly mislead the diagnosis decision-making.
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According to a study by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, mitochondrial disease-causing mutations occur in at least 1 in 4,300 Americans.
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Some public-health advocates see them as a life-saving alternative to their disease-causing combustible cousins that can help smokers quit.
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Even if disease-causing microbes can survive in places like ATMs, the good news is that most exposures don't make us sick.
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"Intuitively, one might expect disease-causing variants to cluster into key pathways that drive disease etiology [the causes of disease]," they write.
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" UK periodontist Eugene Gamble confirms that "the chances of transmitting disease-causing bacteria that wouldn't already be in the mouth are remote.
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"Guinea worm is a truly horrendous disease, causing unimaginable pain and suffering," said UK International Development Minister Nick Hurd in yesterday's announcement.
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With antibiotic resistance constantly on the rise, scientists have been looking into new ways of defending our bodies against disease-causing pathogens.
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That's something that from the very beginning I have been a proponent of, because of the potential to correct disease-causing mutations.
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Just as squeamish parents might expect, past studies have confirmed that public sandboxes can host disease-causing organisms, including parasites and bacteria.
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Health experts have warned that anything from weed repellant to animal feces to disease-causing bacteria is stewing in the still-lingering floodwaters.
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Not only do the resulting defective sperm carry disease-causing mutations, these same mutations also confer a competitive advantage to the defective spermatogonia.
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The California Institute for Biomedical Research in San Diego has a library of 12,000 drug compounds it is testing against disease-causing pathogens.
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In March researchers in China made history when they reported its first successful application to a disease-causing genetic mutation in human embryos.
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Regardless, the detection of possible disease-causing organisms highlights the importance of further studies to examine how these ISS microbes function in space.
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And for disease-causing mutations on maternal genes, the same process should occur, with the father's healthy genetic sequence being copied, he said.
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This water needs to be poured through cloth to filter out leeches and worms, and even then, it's still contaminated by disease-causing pathogens.
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CRISPR allows scientists to cut and paste little bits of DNA, swapping out even single letters of DNA to correct disease-causing genetic mutations.
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The presence of this type of bacteria is a warning sign that E. coli or other disease-causing organisms may be contaminating the water.
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Liu submitted their paper describing a way to fix half the disease-causing single base snafus to Nature the Thursday before Columbus Day 2017.
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The danger with the CRISPR editing tool occurs specifically when CRISPR-Cas9 is used to replace a disease-causing gene with a healthy one.
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Scientists have engineered that system to edit disease-causing genes — changing how we think about curing genetic diseases like sickle cell anemia and cancer.
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Companies know that if their meat is contaminated with the disease-causing bacteria, they might sicken or even kill people—and thus get sued.
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The report says exposure to air pollution led to strokes, heart attacks, lung cancer and chronic lung disease, causing many of those premature deaths.
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Ultrasounds often do not detect fetal microcephaly, the disease causing misshapen heads and brain damage that has been linked to infection with the virus.
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Mammals, including bats, have ways to identify and respond to such bits of DNA, which might indicate an invasion of a disease-causing organism.
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Kertesz said the company has figured out a way to separate out the disease-causing agent from bacteria that live harmoniously in the body.
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A cleared-out microbiome means that there are free niches that could be taken over by those disease-causing bacteria, such as C. diff.
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According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, vaccinations trigger protective immune responses and prepare the immune system to fight future infections from disease-causing agents.
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Although the DNA still had its disease-causing mutations, 23 percent and 35 percent, respectively, of the RNA made by those defective genes was REPAIR'ed.
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So far, the ticks that have been tested (and the sheep itself) have been negative for disease-causing pathogens, she said, but tests are ongoing.
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The pair of teenagers, a girl and a boy, had cystic fibrosis, a genetic condition where the lungs can't clear mucus or disease-causing bacteria.
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Arvinas is working on so-called proteolysis targeting chimeras that harness the body's own natural protein disposal system to degrade and remove disease-causing proteins.
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In the early 20th century, scientists discovered that some of these molecules, if isolated and replicated en masse, could wipe out certain disease-causing bacteria.
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The term macrophage literally means "big eater," and these microbes live up to their name, gulping up all kinds of disease-causing viruses and bacteria.
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If that research is replicated, it could explain some of Tai Chi's health benefits due to a reduction of disease-causing inflammation in the body.
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This, it turns out, has a lot more value than correcting a disease-causing genetic mutation or cutting out the gene that makes a mushroom brown.
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Like other disease-causing Salmonella strains, Adelaide infection can cause diarrhea, fever, and stomach cramps, and symptoms usually take 12 to 72 hours to show up.
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The gene-editing tool has also been used to correct a disease-causing gene mutation in human embryos, preventing the mutation from passing to future generations.
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Studies at the University of Arizona suggest that 9 out of 10 phones have a potential disease-causing microbe, and 16% test positive for fecal matter.
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The plasmodium parasite has many routes of attack, a complicated life cycle with multiple stages of development, and thousands more genes than other disease-causing bugs.
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Lactobacillus is one of the "probiotic" bacteria; they need to be in your gut and vagina to stop more serious disease-causing pathogens from taking hold.
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Nevertheless, with the upcoming holiday travels, asking how to prevent the spread of disease-causing pathogens isn't just for aspiring microbiologists but a great question for everyone.
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But in a second study focused on bacteria, the researchers detected some of the most recognizable disease-causing pathogens, including Shigella, Salmonella, Clostridium difficile and E. coli.
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Earlier this year, the drug regulator had declined to approve Akcea's similar drug, Waylivra, which looked to treat a genetic disease causing fat accumulation in the blood.
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Baines, who was not involved in the research, explained that within some groups of bacteria, there are many different members, some pathogenic (or disease-causing), others harmless.
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This "preliminary cut" might show a 100 genetic mutations that appear to be disease-causing, 19,000 that look harmless and 1,000 mutatations of unknown significance, he said.
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Rather than just killing mosquitoes, a more effective and lasting strategy would be to genetically change them so they can no longer transmit a disease-causing microbe.
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The more common disease-causing mutations — like those that predispose you to breast or colon cancer — are so well studied that their meaning is not in doubt.
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In addition to competing, this year's open-water swimmers, rowers, sailors, triathletes, and others will face invisible foes, too: disease-causing microorganisms in Rio de Janeiro's waterways.
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Altay Therapeutics: Located inside the Bayer Collaborator in San Francisco, Altay Therapeutics has developed small molecule therapies that block disease-causing DNA-binding proteins (or transcriptional regulators).
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Disease-causing bacteria use this special type of communication to know when the population has reached a high enough number to launch an attack on the host.
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In one survey, they collected seawater and put it in petri dishes to see if colonies of disease-causing bacteria known as Enterococcus grew from the samples.
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Working with an international team, we took minute samples of textile and skin for biochemical analysis, radiocarbon dating, textile analysis and DNA analysis of disease causing bacteria.
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Scientific advances have made it possible for disease-causing microorganisms to be engineered or recreated in labs, or to escape labs when explosions and other accidents occur.
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But this is a big advance because the researchers got stronger results than anyone who has ever tried to target disease-causing genes with CRISPR-Cas9 before.
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To establish whether high beetle numbers and good microbe diversity really did result in fewer disease-causing bacteria, the researchers followed up their field work with laboratory experiments.
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Experts say treatments like these could inactivate a disease-causing gene, or correct a genetic mutation, but much more research is still needed to ensure techniques are safe.
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The molecular scissors were able to precisely cut the disease-causing copy of the gene without disrupting the healthy copy, according to a study published today in Nature.
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They found that the seed meal encouraged the growth of certain soil microbes, and they in turn protected the apple trees from disease-causing fungi and nematode worms.
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Inflammation is normally the body's way of trying fight off disease-causing organisms, said Jenny Tung, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke and the study's senior author.
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Q&A Q. Are people who work with books and manuscripts from the 14th and 15th centuries at risk from disease-causing bacteria or viruses from that time?
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Although gene editing holds promise to potentially correct dangerous disease-causing mutations and treat some medical conditions, there are many safety and ethical concerns about editing human embryos.
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Meanwhile, a number of biotech companies have ramped up vaccine or drug programs to battle the disease, causing investors to bid up their shares amid the market rout.
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For the first time, scientists have successfully edited genes in human embryos to repair a common and serious disease-causing mutation, according to a study published on Wednesday.
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Mitalipov and colleagues created embryos in the lab with sperm from a carrier of the disease-causing mutation in the MYBPC220 gene, and eggs from 240 healthy donors.
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As of yet, the longhorned tick is not believed to have made any person in the U.S. sick, nor have any disease-causing germs been found in U.S. populations.
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Photo: Steven Senne (AP)Meanwhile, the FDA has realized that teens really like vaping, which might seem better than smoking cigarettes but is still addictive and likely disease-causing.
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Extreme prematurity is the leading cause of infant mortality and disease, causing a third of all infant deaths and half of all cerebral palsy diagnoses attributed to preterm births.
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And now, a team of scientists in China have used a cutting-edge Crispr technique, known as base editing, to repair a disease-causing mutation in viable human embryos.
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Scientists at North Carolina State University say they've discovered disease-causing Salmonella bacteria in the U.S. that can resist one of the few remaining antibiotics available for certain infections.
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Peter Walter, UC San Francisco For elucidating the unfolded protein response, a cellular quality-control system that detects disease-causing unfolded proteins and directs cells to take corrective measures.
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Kazutoshi Mori, Kyoto University Also, for elucidating the unfolded protein response, a cellular quality-control system that detects disease-causing unfolded proteins and directs cells to take corrective measures.
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In a project dubbed BabySeq, Green and his colleagues found a disease-causing gene in one in 10 of the 257 healthy babies whose genomes the BabySeq team sequenced.
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Many scientists and public-health experts believe that "gene drives" — which insert a chosen gene into an organism's offspring — could help to alter or even eradicate disease-causing insects.
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Recent tests performed by the manufacturers at the demand of the F.D.A. found that one in 20 duodenoscopes retained disease-causing microbes like E. coli even after proper cleaning.
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Some of the sugars it contains, although not digested by babies, support certain communities of gut microorganisms, which prevent disease-causing microbes from establishing a presence in the body.
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Recent tests performed by the manufacturers at the demand of the F.D.A. found that one in 20 duodenoscopes retained disease-causing microbes like E. coli even after proper cleaning.
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In the meantime, any prospective parents who want to avoid passing on disease-causing genes to their kids will have to continue to use PGD during in vitro fertilization.
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While that's not necessarily bad, some of these bacteria could be disease-causing or raise your risk of infection by disrupting your skin's delicate microbial environment, known as the microbiome.
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The company's tech is used by doctors to analyze cell samples taken from patients to determine the presence or absence of bacterium, viruses, cancerous cells or other disease-causing agents.
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With drought often comes more dust, which can aggravate allergies and asthma and can also accelerate the reproduction of disease-causing fungi in soil, according to the National Climate Assessment.
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"COVID-19 on cruise ships poses a risk for rapid spread of disease, causing outbreaks in a vulnerable population, and aggressive efforts are required to contain spread," the report said.
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As a result, a large number of patients with disease-causing mutations go undetected, and so family members of breast cancer patients may develop tumors that could have been prevented.
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A new study this week suggests that a common disease-causing species in the U.S. has learned how to lay dormant eggs that can survive harsher winters in the North.
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The Imagine Dragons frontman had ankylosing spondylitis, a chronic autoimmune disease causing pain through the spine, but neither he — nor the multitudes of doctors he saw over two years — knew it.
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The study found that clothing treated with permethrin was able to stop several species of disease-causing ticks in their tracks, either paralyzing them or making them fall off the clothes.
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And while not all strains of the disease-causing Vibrio species make people sick, it appears that the variants that cause illnesses have been showing up more frequently in recent years.
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However, that very year, my self-worth and confidence took a big turn downward when I was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a genetic disease causing a gradual decline in my vision.
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On its own, this bacteria isn't usually harmful, but its presence is an indicator of other contaminants, such as microorganisms that dwell in fecal matter, disease-causing bacteria, viruses, and parasites.
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As I've previously reported, the process heats milk to 161 degree temperatures for 15 seconds followed by a quick cool, killing off disease-causing bacteria, called pathogens, like Listeria and Salmonella.
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Now, scientists from Northwest A&F University in Shaanxi, China have used a tweaked CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing system to insert a protein that helps fight off the disease-causing bacteria.
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The eventual objective, still a long way off, is full-blown clinical trials, in which modified embryos, purged of disease-causing genes, are reimplanted into their mothers and carried to term.
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"There have been a number of well-documented epidemics where animals given antibiotics were carrying disease-causing bacteria that were resistant to those antibiotics that made people very sick," he said.
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The science: The results of these studies likely only apply to one way that CRISPR Cas9 edits genomes, when it replaces disease-causing DNA with modified, healthy versions, per STAT News.
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Recent tests performed by manufacturers at the F.D.A.'s request found that even after the proper cleaning procedures were followed, one in 20 duodenoscopes retained disease-causing microbes like E. coli.
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An example of successful genetic cataloging can be found in Dor Yeshorim, a Brooklyn-based organization that screens Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews for common disease-causing mutations to inform marriage matchmaking.
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It cut the mutant gene sequence, prompted the embryos to repair the DNA with healthy copies of the gene, and eliminated the disease-causing mutation altogether from many of the embryos.
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But that hasn't stopped some, like the US group that recently used CRISPR to remove a cardiac disease-causing mutation from a human embryo (though there's some debate about their success).
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Jonathan Pitre was known as "Butterfly Child," as he was diagnosed with Epidermolysis bullosa, a rare disease causing his skin to blister in response to minor stimuli such as scratching or heat.
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Researchers are also in the early stages of experimenting with controlling the spread of Lyme disease by editing the genes of mice so the rodents don't transmit disease-causing bacteria to ticks.
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Regev now believes it probably plays a key role in the disease, breaking the widely held view that a much more ubiquitous cell type was responsible for expressing the disease-causing gene.
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But by then it had clearly been circulating in the country's northeast for many months, because cities there were experiencing large outbreaks of a mysterious disease causing rash, fever and bloodshot eyes.
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While studies have found high levels of disease-causing pathogens in the Bay, Rio's organizing committee and World Sailing, the sport's governing body, said on Wednesday they review daily government water tests.
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Scientists for the first time have successfully edited genes in human embryos to repair a common and serious disease-causing mutation, producing apparently healthy embryos, according to a study published on Wednesday.
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The blood-brain barrier provides a defence against disease-causing pathogens and toxins that may be present in our blood, and by design exists to keep out foreign substances from the brain.
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Sex guarantees the genetic diversity necessary to persevere in a never-ending war, meaning that you can thank disease-causing microbes and parasites for the opportunity to fall in love at all.
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Today, PFOS has been linked to testicular, kidney, and thyroid disease, causing the EPA to issue a health advisory limit on the agent in 2009, which it revised and strengthened last year.
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As my Vox colleague Eliza Barclay reported last year, scientists have already made major breakthroughs in gene editing technology, tinkering with embryos to repair DNA and help fend off disease-causing mutations.
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Creating "designer babies" with a revolutionary new genome-editing technique would be extremely difficult, according to the first U.S. experiment that tried to replace a disease-causing gene in a viable human embryo.
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The scientists excised a mutated, heart-disease-causing gene from the embryos—a gene that came from sperm used to create them through in vitro fertilization—and supplied them with a healthy replacement.
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The London-based company's lead drug to treat adenosine deaminase severe combined immunodeficiency (ADA-SCID), OTL-101, aims to fix the disease-causing gene by infusing patients' own stem cells in their bodies.
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" Uber whistleblower Susan Fowler put it in even harsher terms: "Facebook: we are one of the largest platforms on which damaging, disease-causing, life-ending misinformation is spread, but here's a global currency!
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The HTST process is designed to kill the disease-causing micro-organisms that are of concern in milk — for example, the Q fever agent, Coxiella burnetii — so the milk is safe for consumption.
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What this could mean for the future of disease and natural disastersWhat this means for the future is showing how powerful tsunamis could be in shifting around different kinds of disease-causing agents.
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An investigation by The Associated Press last year recorded disease-causing viruses in some tests that were 1.7 million times the level of what would be considered hazardous on a Southern California beach.
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U.S. scientists last year succeeded in altering the genes of a human embryo to correct a disease-causing mutation, making it possible to prevent the defect from being passed on to future generations.
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Antimicrobial drugs (including antibiotics and antivirals) that have too little active ingredient are generally accepted to help disease-causing bugs evolve so that they develop resistance to treatment even with good-quality antimicrobials.
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Exome sequencing targets only 22020 to 23 percent of a person's genome, but they're the protein-coding regions of the genes, where most of the disease-causing mutations that we know about occur.
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That could prevent the population from achieving herd immunity, wherein so many people are vaccinated that disease-causing pathogens no longer have human sources to spread to and, as a result, can't survive.
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In CRISPR, when that cutting is done, scientists can also insert a new bit of code or delete code, to, for example, fix disease-causing genetic mutations in the code before patching it up.
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Photo: Mary Alaffer (AP)Late last week, certain lots of popular snack foods such as Ritz Cracker Sandwiches and Pepperidge Farm's Goldfish crackers were recalled over concerns they might contain disease-causing Salmonella bacteria.
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Pasadena, California-based Arrowhead uses its proprietary Targeted RNAi Molecule (TRiM) technology to develop RNAi medicines that treat diseases by targeting and silencing specific genetic material, thereby blocking the production of disease-causing proteins.
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What we do know is that someday antibiotics will no longer work, hence why scientists are looking at new, creative approaches to treating disease-causing bacteria, such as nanotechnology and genetic engineering, Cars says.
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Dr. Allaire and her co-authors also found that water systems that serve minority and low-income communities were more likely to violate federal standards around coliform bacteria, which frequently accompany disease-causing pathogens.
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Besides combating malaria, gene drives could be used to alter, or even eliminate, other disease-causing insects, from the sand flies that transmit leishmaniasis to ticks that carry Lyme disease in the United States.
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Genes, some of which contain disease-causing mutations, are shared within families, meaning the results of a test for a genetic condition inevitably affect more people than the one who consented to be tested.
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"However, a bacterium that is related to the Lyme disease-causing bacterium has been found in these ticks in Asia, so it is hypothetically possible," Pritt, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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This could one day mean the ability to create smarter or more athletic humans (yes, "designer babies"), but also the chance to knock out disease-causing genetic mutations that parents pass on to their children.
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But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified signs of a toxin that's produced by some disease-causing strains of C. perfringens, an ubiquitous rod-shaped bacteria found in the environment and in our guts.
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Instead of asking which brand of soap was the most "effective" and classifying all bacteria as germs, I should have been investigating how to prevent the growth and spread of specific disease-causing bacteria, or pathogens.
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A. Copper surfaces are valuable in killing disease-causing microbes left on them, but are not infallible in preventing the spread of disease, according to a 2011 review article in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
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Mosquito-borne disease is less of an immediate threat because the floodwaters will wash out most mosquito breeding sites for disease-causing mosquitoes such Aedes aegypti, which spread Zika, chikungunya, dengue and yellow fever, she said.
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In one small study, Ambry Genetics — a lab certified to do medical testing — looked at 49 samples sent in by physicians whose patients had been told that they had disease-causing mutations by third-party interpreters.
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An investigation conducted by The Associated Press last year found that Rio waters were home to disease-causing bacteria at 1.7 million times the level of what would be considered hazardous at a Southern California beach.
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One example: Because DTC tests only look at three types of genetic variants linked to breast cancer, it doesn't catch the 80 percent of people who have another disease-causing variant the tests don't look for.
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Ragweed.Photo: United Soybean Board (Flickr)There's no shortage of horrible things that will become more common in the near future due to climate change, like coastal flooding, extreme weather, and disease-causing ticks, to name a few.
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Like other gene therapies, the idea is to deliver a working piece of DNA into cells to correct a disease-causing gene, but Luxturna is the first such therapy to directly target mutations in one specific gene.
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Image: Chris Bickel/AAASGenetic engineering offers the promise of treating genetic disorders by correcting disease-causing DNA, but when the defective genes are located in cells deep inside the body, how do you actually deliver a cure?
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Arrowhead, along with competitors such as Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc, Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc and privately held Quark Pharmaceuticals, focuses on ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi), which aims to silence certain genes to curb the production of disease-causing proteins.
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A review of case studies published in Nursing Study and Practice in 2012 found that a toothbrush can be a breeding ground for disease-causing bacteria and viruses (as well as blood, saliva, oral debris and toothpaste).
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Briand described cases outside of Hubei as "spillover cases" -- people who were mostly infected in Hubei before there was a lockdown there and moved to other places with the disease, causing clusters of cases in other regions.
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Scientific and technological advancements have helped fight these diseases -- but the WHO report warns they can also provide the laboratory environments for new disease-causing microorganisms to be created, increasing the risk of a future global pandemic.
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Photo: gentle07 (Pixabay)It's long been suspected that hand dryers, especially those quick-drying ones that blast hot air known as jet dryers, are actually way worse at keeping our hands and bathrooms free of disease-causing germs.
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Such experiments trace back to 1960, when a Russian satellite ferried disease-causing E. coli, Aerobacter aerogenes, and Staphylococcus into space, only to find that these bacteria could in fact survive in microgravity, according to the Washington Post.
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The sailors said those factors will affect their performance on the "playground," as the Germans call the race course, more than the presence of disease-causing pathogens at Rio water-sports venues, the focus much pre-Olympic concern.
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Brazilian officials have said that the issue detected by American inspectors related to injections of the vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease causing abcesses in the meat, but that this did not affect the quality of the meat.
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Many scientists and public-health experts believe that so-called gene drives — a tool that inserts a chosen gene into the DNA of generations of an organism's offspring — could help to alter or even eradicate disease-causing insects.
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Health experts and entomologists have long been focused on fighting disease-causing mosquitoes, but "insect pests have the uncanny ability to adapt to and overcome our best efforts to manage them and the harm they cause," Peterson said.
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And though the effects of climate change on algae populations and other disease-causing things like ticks are complex, it's likely that warmer temperatures have contributed to a growing increase and potency of algae blooms in recent years.
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In the US, in August scientists genetically modified a human embryo for the first time, removing a disease-causing genetic mutation, prompting calls for the country to lift a ban on federal funding for research that involves germline editing.
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And though proponents of fish pedicures have argued they can properly sanitize the fish and tubs between uses, research has shown that disease-causing bacteria can be readily found in both the tubs and fish used in these spas.
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The danger lurking everywhere is, of course, animal foods, which, via toxins, chemicals, hormones, antibiotics, steroids, pesticides, mad-cow disease, bacteria, pus-filled flesh, or an endless array of chronic disease-causing powers, are apparently bound to kill us.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Xiong Qingzhen, a drone engineer in the central Chinese metropolis of Wuhan, spent more than two weeks in a makeshift hospital in February receiving treatment for Covid-19, the respiratory disease causing a global health crisis.
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Over two years, he also trapped hundreds of mice — and voles, another small mammal — in the same plots, counted how many ticks were on them, and tested the ticks for infection with Lyme and two other disease-causing bacteria.
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By calculating the frequency of the disease-causing mutations in the population, Schadt and his team came to believe that the number of subjects they'd need to be useful wasn't 2000,24—it was more on the order of 24 million.
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In fact, the Danish researchers who led the study hope that they can one day build a trap that mimics the way the fungus works in order to catch or kill flies before they transmit disease-causing germs to other animals.
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Trilobites Mice that live in the basements of New York City apartment buildings — even at the most exclusive addresses — carry disease-causing bacteria, antibiotic-resistant bugs and viruses that have never been seen before, a new study from Columbia University finds.
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Evan as Olympic officials insist they'd "never risk the health of athletes" for a competition, a 16-month-long investigation by the Associated Press has revealed otherwise: Rio's water is infested with disease-causing organisms, pretty much all the time.
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"Instead, it's asking whether if you have two separate mitochondrial DNA haplogroups (mitochondrial genomes from different women), how likely it will be that mixing haplogroups will influence the function of the cell, regardless of any disease causing mutations," she said.
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The award passed over one of the highest-profile fields of research, the so-called CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology that earlier this year allowed U.S. scientists to alter genes in a human embryo to correct a disease-causing mutation.
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That same year, more than 1.4 million people were thought to have chikungunya -- a debilitating disease causing fever and joint pain -- and each year, 8003 million people are estimated to become infected with dengue, according to the World Health Organization.
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"In fact, outbreaks of disease caused by Zika, dengue, chikungunya and Yellow Fever viruses are primarily spread by just a couple of species," Webb told Motherboard, adding that the most prevalent disease-causing mosquito is the Yellow Fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti.
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With the information such testing yields on tumor cells, researchers are developing drugs to target, one by one, specific disease-causing genetic abnormalities, prolonging and improving the lives of tens of thousands of people whose illnesses were once a death sentence.
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As for other disease-causing bacteria and viruses, many, including some kinds of Enterococcus, Staphylococcus and Streptococcus, can survive outside the body for significant lengths of time on dry surfaces, a systematic review in the journal BMC Infectious Diseases found.
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Researchers analyzed the red romaine lettuce crops from 2014 to 2016 and determined that lettuce grown in space is not only safe for astronauts to eat -- it's also free of disease-causing microbes and as nutritious as lettuce grown on Earth.
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To be eligible under the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act, a person 18 years or older must have an advanced disease causing them unacceptable suffering and is likely to cause their death within six months, or 12 months for neurodegenerative diseases.
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A Twitter account claiming to be the regional arm of climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) tweeted photos of an apparent postering campaign promoting the coronavirus as a natural "cure" to the human "disease," causing a swift backlash online.
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Like many species of tick, the Asian longhorned tick can carry disease-causing pathogens, including bacteria that resemble those that cause Lyme disease in the U.S., the Powassan virus, and the parasite responsible for babesiosis, an infection that goes after red blood cells.
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In tests on human cells growing in the lab, REPAIR corrected misspellings in the RNA that was made by disease-causing DNA — in this case, Fanconi anemia, an inherited and devastating bone marrow disease, or nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, a serious inborn kidney disease.
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Sure, someone may not have any issues with having their own disease-causing genes snipped out while they were in the womb, but going beyond that and making changes that aren't survival-related, what about the choices of the individual and their descendants?
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Thirty vials of blood and a rheumatologist visit later, he had an answer: mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), which has symptoms and signs of other connective tissue diseases like lupus, scleroderma, and polymyositis, an inflammatory disease causing chronic muscle pain and weakness.
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Not only do the poor lack appropriate housing in many cases, they often live in close proximity to their livestock and animals, they live in circumstances where mosquitoes, parasites and other disease-causing agents thrive, and they lack access to water and sanitation.
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"COVID-210 on cruise ships poses a risk for rapid spread of disease, causing outbreaks in a vulnerable population, and aggressive efforts are required to contain spread," the CDC wrote, reiterating its guidance to vulnerable populations to avoid cruises during the pandemic.
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In these studies, scientists took a cup straight from the altar after communion to test whether disease-causing bacteria or viruses were present, and found there were such trace amounts as to not be dangerous to those who drank from the cup.
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The technique, described Thursday in the journal Cell, also reveals a wealth of genetic information not accessible with traditional microscopy tools: which immune receptor genes are turned on or off, say, and whether cells are healthy or full of disease-causing mutations.
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Another concern is that while editing of genes in most human cells to, for example, fix a disease-causing mutation affects only the person whose genes are edited, embryo editing — also called germline engineering — makes changes that are passed on to subsequent generations.
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The hearing was almost immediately testy as Democrats, who hammered Pompeo for not appearing until almost two months after the Soleimani strike, instead used their questions to ask about coronavirus — the disease causing fears of a pandemic as it spreads around the globe.
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There's a big push for new antibiotics, of course, which could work to treat gonorrhea and a slew of other disease-causing bacteria, such as C. difficile and CRE on the CDC's hit list, but some are targeting their efforts to gonorrhea in particular.
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Giving babies healthier microbiomes Until we have more answers about vaginal seeding, the potential for passing along healthy bacteria from the birth canal -- while treating women to avoid passing along disease-causing bugs -- could be just one more reason to encourage vaginal deliveries, Hackney said.
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There can be some nasty side effects to eating raw fish, including exposure to environmental contaminants, parasites such as Anisakiasis or Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense, and disease-causing bacteria such as Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio vulnificus, and Mesophilic Aeromonas, which can make you shit-your-pants sick.
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In Wednesday's decision, the state high court said the scope of take-home liability for exposure to disease-causing substances such as beryllium or asbestos is not limited only to employees' spouses, but could include other individuals with whom they regularly come into contact.
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So-called germ line engineering might allow people to have biological children without fear that they have passed on the genes for diseases like Huntington's, Tay-Sachs and beta thalassemia, and without discarding embryos carrying the disease-causing mutations, as is often done now.
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"This is the kind of research that is essential if we are to know if it's possible to safely and precisely make corrections in embryos' DNA to repair disease-causing genes," legal scholar and bioethicist R. Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told STAT.
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However, one possibility is that these individuals also have other genes that somehow suppress these disease-causing mutations, preventing these people from getting sick, said study co-author Rong Chen, director of clinical genome informatics at the Icahn Institute of Genetics and Multiscale Biology in New York.
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Instead of killing off the disease-causing bacteria more thoroughly, longer courses of antibiotics may increase the amount of time the strongest bacteria are exposed to the compounds intended to kill them, which could give them more opportunity to develop mutations that allow them to survive.
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Examples include fortification with vitamins and minerals, which has diminished inadequate intake by adding them to common foods; heat pasteurization, which has reduced food-borne illness by killing disease-causing micro-organisms; and canning and freezing, which have extended the shelf life of perishable foods and decreased food waste.
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By revealing the elemental secrets of these plants, Quave has discovered promising candidates for a new generation of drugs that might help resolve one of the greatest threats to public health today: the fact that an increasing number of disease-causing bacteria are rapidly evolving immunity to every existing antibiotic.
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Since we have only a minuscule fraction of the bones of everyone who ever lived, though, and only a fraction of those have evidence of disease, I imagine that most of our future knowledge of the antiquity of disease will come from genetic advances in studying the evolution of disease-causing organisms.
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Even for people who may not be able to stick to the complete regimen, some exercise is better than none, and physical activity comes with a variety of benefits for the whole body, not just for the heart—like lowering disease-causing inflammation, for example, and improving blood pressure and blood sugar readings.
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Instead of looking for ways to fix the effects of a disease-causing mutation, "we came up with the idea of trying to identify those individuals who have the mutations, but didn't manifest the disease," says Eric Schadt, a biologist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who co-authored the study.
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She notes that because of the way people have bred dogs, there's a small gene pool within each breed, making the animals simpler to study: "The way the jiggery-pokery of genetics works means that it's remarkably easy to get to map the sites where disease-causing genes are in dogs," Raffan says.
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"But there's this popular idea that if you feel bloated or have a lot of gas, that you are over-represented by the 'bad' disease-causing bacteria and have too little of the 'good' bacteria ... and that there is some sort of imbalance causing you to have excess gas or discomfort or constipation," Freuman said.
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Studies going as far back as 1965 show that even when scientists intentionally contaminate their hands with disease-causing E. coli and Staph, and bacteria are transferred to the surface of a bar of soap, those microorganisms aren't detected on the skin of a second person who lathers up with the same slimy bar.
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Later that day, the doctors sent them an email with the name of the extremely rare neurodegenerative condition: SPG50 According to the National Organization of Rare Diseases, "a gene with a disease-causing (pathogenic) mutation must be inherited from each parent to result in manifestations of symptoms" and many patients may be misdiagnosed as having cerebral palsy.
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The report noted that, since 2004, there have been nine vector-borne pathogens newly identified as concerns among humans in the US: the tick-borne viruses Heartland and Bourbon; Lyme disease-causing Borrelia miyamotoi and Borrelia mayonii bacteria; two new tick-borne spotted fever species, Rickettsia parkeri and Rickettsia 364D; a newly recognized tick-borne Ehrlichia species; and the mosquito-borne viruses chikungunya and Zika.
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One possibility is that these individuals also have other genes that somehow suppress these disease-causing mutations Other people in the study lacked conditions such as familial dysautonomia (which affects nerve cells, and can result in sudden death during childhood), Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (which causes widespread developmental problems throughout the body), and epidermolysis bullosa simplex (a severe skin condition), despite having mutations in the genes for these conditions.
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