Sentence examples for class of viruses from inspiring English sources

(See "The Glimmering Promise of Gene Therapy"). And one class of viruses used for gene therapy can cause leukemia.

The nucleic acid and proteins of each class of viruses assemble themselves into a structure called a nucleoprotein, or nucleocapsid.

Paramyxoviruses are an important class of viruses which are associated with respiratory ailments, and common childhood diseases such as measles and mumps.

In Malaysia, about 100 people died last year and a million pigs were slaughtered because of the spread of the newly discovered Nipah virus, which is in the same class of viruses as ebola and AIDS.

With no known vaccine or cure, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has put Nipah, which was named for one of the villages it hit, in the same class of viruses as ebola and AIDS.

He was among the first to discover, in the nineteenseventies, that a particular class of viruses — a type of retrovirus — carries genes capable of transforming normal cells into cancer cells.

Now a second research team has reported a link between the fatigue syndrome and the same class of virus, a category known as MLV-related viruses.

It belongs to an aberrant class of virus known as the retroviruses, which package their genes in the form of DNA's sister molecule, RNA.

Virologists feel they have a head start on Zika because it is a flavivirus – a class of virus spread by ticks and mosquitoes that also includes yellow fever and dengue fever.

The protein and nucleic acid constituents have properties unique for each class of virus; when assembled, they determine the size and shape of the virus for that specific class.

A hundred years ago, a class of virus that infect and destroy bacteria were discovered.