Elie Metchnikoff

Inflammation as understood in man and the higher animals is a phenomenon that almost always results from the intervention of some pathogenic microbe.

Russian Scientist

Anthony Fauci

I run a modest-sized laboratory that's looking specifically at what we call 'the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.

American Scientist

Used in medical or scientific discussions about diseases and their causes.

Technical Term

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Context Clues

'Pathogenic' may evoke a sense of concern or need for caution, especially in health contexts.

Emotional Connotation

Beyond diseases, 'pathogenic' can describe anything that causes harm to well-being.

Broad Harm

'Pathogenic' can refer to psychological harm or social impact, not only physical illness.

Not Always Physical

 able to do is to give these virulent infections but we give them in conjunction with our anti quorum sensing molecules so these are molecules that look kind of like the real thing but they're a little bit different which I've depicted on this slide and what we now know is that if we treat the animal with the pathogenic bacterium a

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 but we give them in conjunction with our anti-quorum-sensing molecules. So these are molecules that look kind of like the real thing, but they're a little different, which I've depicted on this slide. What we now know is that if we treat the animal with a pathogenic bacterium -- a multi-drug-resistant pathogenic bacterium --

Bonnie Bassler: The...

 because all the people who tried to transplant heart valves found out you can't get rid of that immunity. And I said, why don't you use that? What if I could stick this molecule, slap it onto a bacteria that was pathogenic to me, that had just invaded my lungs? I mean I could immediately tap into

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 through their eyes. I'd like to show you some animations, a brief tour of what I consider to be some of the natural wonders of the molecular world. First off, this is an immune cell. These kinds of cells need to go crawling around in our bodies in order to find invaders like pathogenic bacteria.

The wonders of the...

 not necessarily repair them completely, but repair them quite a lot, so that we keep the level of damage down below the threshold that must exist, that causes it to be pathogenic." We know that this threshold exists, because we don't get age-related diseases until we're in middle age,

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 is actually pathogenic to humans. In fact, most of the microbes we encounter are beneficial. There are trillions of bacteria, fungi and viruses living in and on us right now, more of them than human cells in the body. They help us digest our food, protect us from disease

Steven Allison: Earth's...

 we set out to develop this second class of base editor, which, in theory, could correct up to almost half of pathogenic point mutations, including that mutation that causes the rapid-aging disease progeria. We realized that we could borrow, once again,

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 thereby killing pathogenic organisms on food or hospital surfaces. Plasmas are all around us, in forms that are both spectacular and practical. And in the future, plasma could be used to permanently rid landfills of their waste,

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 a pathogenic protozoan that causes extreme dysentery the individuals that acquire crypto infection die likely because of dehydration if you identify the infection soon enough there's steps that we can take to help prevent death

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 my former team and I could finally identify such plant signals by studying the interaction between a pathogenic fungus called Fusarium oxysporum and one of its host plants, the tomato plant. As well, we could characterize