Sentence examples for and make it transmissible to the from inspiring English sources
Throughout our evolutionary history, we have created ad-hoc systems of knowledge that organize environmental information and make it transmissible to the next generation.
Two months ago we warned that a new bird flu virus — modified in a laboratory to make it transmissible through the air among mammals — could kill millions of people if it escaped confinement or was stolen by terrorists.
In 2011 scientists reported the development of a version of H5N1 that had been genetically altered to make it transmissible between ferrets, which respond to influenza in much the same way that humans do.
The only way to figure that out was to take those mutations and see if they can make the H5N1 virus airborne as well – in other words, make it transmissible between people via a cough or sneeze.
With five mutations they made it transmissible through the air among ferrets and possibly humans.
"Some major evolutionary changes would be required to make it more transmissible; not just tweaking around the edges but big changes in the way it behaves.
If it's not, Fouchier says that he's interested in finding out which mutations might make it easily transmissible between ferrets, the kind of experiments that raised a huge controversy when his lab reported them in H5N1.
Ata news conference in Sejong, south of the capital, Seoul, the WHO's assistant director general, Keiji Fukuda, said there was also no indication that the MERS virus in South Korea had changed to make it more transmissible.
The virus has been changing genetically, and researchers fear that changes could make it more transmissible, or that A(H5N1) could mix with a human flu virus in a person, swap genetic material and come out contagious.
The report from the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) is meant to guide decisions about so-called gain-of-function (GOF) studies experiments that modify a pathogen in ways that could make it more transmissible and more pathogenic in humans.
"But that didn't make it more transmissible or cause more severe disease".
