Plasma contains antibodies that people have built against the pathogen.
COVID-19 plasma treatments may be safe, but we don’t know if they work|Tina Hesman Saey|August 25, 2020|Science News
The spread of this type of vaccine would be limited, but in Nuismer and Bull’s models, transferable vaccines could achieve high enough levels of immunization to potentially eradicate pathogens in wild populations.
Can Vaccines for Wildlife Prevent Human Pandemics?|Rodrigo Pérez Ortega|August 24, 2020|Quanta Magazine
Unlike the pathogens the T-cells are used to hunting, tumor cells are not that dissimilar to the body’s other cells and often share many antigens.
Scientists Used Protein Switches to Turn T-Cells Into Cancer-Fighting Guided Missiles|Edd Gent|August 24, 2020|Singularity Hub
That genetic trait is their Achilles’ heel, and that pathogen is the one thing that can take advantage of it.
Our Genes May Explain Severity of COVID-19 and Other Infections|Monique Brouillette|July 27, 2020|Quanta Magazine
These observations, however, might not apply to the novel pathogen.
Why South Asia’s COVID-19 Numbers Are So Low (For Now)|Puja Changoiwala|June 23, 2020|Quanta Magazine
This last capability of the virus appears to be how the pathogen is spreading between farms in different states.
Aporkalypse Now: Pig-Killing Virus Could Mean the End of Bacon|Carrie Arnold|August 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Most human infections are contracted by inhaling, ingesting, or inoculating a pathogen.
This Amoeba Eats Your Brain: Naegleria Fowleri Rattles New Orleans|Kent Sepkowitz|September 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The bacterium is technically a pathogen, so the USDA looks at it.
Plants That Glow in the Dark Spark Heated Debate|Josh Dzieza|August 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
“The mosquito is really wily, but the pathogen is even more wily,” she says.
Mosquitoes Love Some People More and Science Wants to Know Why|Josh Dzieza|August 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
When I started the job in 1992 it was well established as a pathogen, and that was the end of pink burgers for you and for me.
Be Afraid of Your Food: An Epidemiologist’s Sensible Advice|Amanda Kludt|March 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Pathogen′esis, Pathog′eny, mode of production or development of disease.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)|Various