Science news articles about 'benign virus'

... , Berkeley, and the University of Iowa have turned a relatively benign virus into a highly infectious form that is ideal ... lung tissue in culture. This success with the benign adeno-associated virus (AAV), published this week ...

... stem cells, Daley and his colleagues mixed cells from patients with the ten disorders with benign viruses to introduce the reprogramming factors into the cells ...

... School of Medicine and Dentistry, to design a way to incorporate the new gene with its toxic cargo into a benign virus. If successful, the team will attempt to treat ...

Previous attempts to use viruses to carry a normal gene into cystic fibrosis patients and cure their illness ... system mopped them up too quickly or the viruses didn't infect enough lung ... gene.Scientists have developed a technique to force viruses to evolve as better gene therapy carriers ...

A normally benign virus commonly found in adults may be a cause of high blood pressure, a series of experiments in mice suggests.

... researcher working with Duan, took a different approach and placed the MCAT gene inside a benign virus and injected the virus into the mice. Once injected ...

... of healthy individuals may, therefore, show evidence of the benign virus. But, according to Koralnik, who is also Associate Professor of Neurology ... also wanted to determine whether the reactivated JC virus had the benign molecular composition commonly found in the urine ...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned a benign virus into an engineering tool for assembling structures ... for an entire sheet to be processed. By adjusting the concentration of viruses in the solution and the speed with which the glass is pulled, the researchers ...

... to viral infection. Furthermore, stress can increase the propagation of viruses in the fish's internal organs and can cause "benign" viruses to turn "pernicious ...