Sentence examples for benign virus from inspiring English sources

Last summer, for example, a benign virus, Simile.D, infected Linux-based and Windows machines.

Last year a similar, though largely benign, virus called Melissa spread around the globe.

In the Parkinson's study, the researchers placed into a benign virus a gene that makes GABA, a brain chemical that is deficient in Parkinson's patients.

Mr. Schundler said that his earlier proposal to use cowpox, a benign virus related to smallpox, to speed vaccine production was only one part of his antiterrorism agenda.

Vaccination, invented in 1796, let doctors infect patients with a kindred but usually benign virus (cowpox at first, vaccinia later) that gave smallpox immunity.

That may change, though, with some help from a tiny benign virus and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Yamanaka and several other researchers are trying to get the same effect by adding chemicals or using more benign viruses to get the genes into cells.

One approach is to inject benign viruses that stitch the light-emitting genes right next to the gene for the protein you want to tag; another is to engineer particular cells to produce a foreign protein to which the fluorescent tags will bind.

At their most benign, viruses eat up precious storage space, slowing or crashing computers.

In addition, there are highly effective vaccines against other viral diseases, such as hepatitis B, which do not depend on benign viruses to deliver their immune punch.

These vectors are frequently benign viruses that work like Trojan horses, carrying the new genetic information to the cells.