Sentences with phrase «function of individual genes»

In addition, its scientists «will help develop high - capacity methods» that will speed up and streamline the determination not only of the functions of individual genes but also of how those genes and their protein products interact.

Building on this concept, Sushant Patkar of the University of Maryland and colleagues hypothesized that alterations in protein interaction networks in breast cancer cells may change the function of individual genes.

To study the function of an individual gene, researchers typically mutate or eliminate that gene to find out what happens — an approach known as reverse genetics.

Researchers make knockout mice by disrupting the function of individual genes across the animal's genome.

This has been made possible by the ability to create transgenic and knockout mouse models which give scientists the means to observe the function of individual genes.

The Drosophila research community - both through the efforts of «genome projects» and of individual investigators - has accumulated a vast amount of data on the genetic and molecular organization of the Drosophila genome as well as on the structure, expression and function of individual genes.

Most dramatically, they've employed the use of RNA interference (RNAi), a technique that can knock out the function of individual genes.