Sentence examples for ancient defense from inspiring English sources
Cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs) are important elements of innate immunity in higher organisms, representing an ancient defense mechanism against pathogenic bacteria.
By harnessing an ancient defense mechanism built into bacteria, CRISPR allows scientists to target, delete and replace specific genes.
In a 2009 paper in the American Journal of Psychology, Revonsuo and a co-writer, Katja Valli, theorized that "modern humans still possess this ancient defense mechanism," though it probably no longer fulfills its original biological function, since the modern environment is so different from the one in which the system evolved.
The last quarter of the Mozi preserves the texts of these militias, which present detailed information about ancient defense tactics and siege fortifications (for an overview, see Yates, 1980).
Flights of the 1937 season concentrated on northeastern Iran — the Gurgan plain and the ancient defense wall, often erroneously called "Alexander's Barrier," which stretches from the Caspian Sea to the mountains in the east.
With CRISPR, a method based on the ancient defense mechanism that bacteria use to demolish the DNA of invading viruses, researchers can target a specific point in a genome with a short strand of guide RNA and then slice it with an enzyme to precisely disrupt a gene or insert a new one.
These chemicals are one of life's most ancient defenses.
These results suggest that echinoderm ferritin is an acute phase protein and suggest that sequestration of iron is an ancient host defense response in animals.
sRNA-guided RNA silencing functions as an ancient antiviral defense mechanism in a variety of eukaryotic organisms.
The role of RNA silencing as an ancient antiviral defense mechanism has been firmly established in plants and some animals [1], [6], mainly based on two lines of compelling evidence.
Simulation of bacterial infection in mice induces histone accumulation on LDs in the liver, a key organ for fighting infection; this observation suggests that lipid droplet histones may represent an ancient host defense strategy.
