Sentences with phrase «flt3 gene found»

But the vitamin A content was still low, so they turned to a gene found in corn, which increased the amount of vitamin A 23 times.

All the genes of a species put together constitute its genome, and the human genome includes perhaps 100,000 genes found in 3 billion base pairs.

To clear up confusion about the origin of the aroma gene found in Thai Jasmine rice, scientists from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) analyzed 318 varieties of aromatic rice from the International Rice Genebank, including 16 types of Thai Jasmine rice.

The researchers then asked whether the genes they found include those previously found to cause Parkinson's disease.

The estimate of the number of human genes has been repeatedly revised down from initial predictions of 100,000 or more as genome sequence quality and gene finding methods have improved, and could continue to drop further.

Despite high heritability estimates of 45 % in childhood and 80 % in adulthood, only a handful of genes had previously been associated with intelligence and for most of these genes the findings were not reliable.

There are already 12 known PRA genes found in dogs.

Levels of a gene found in ovarian cancers could predict how well chemotherapy will work.

When we took the mouse version of this gene — the same gene we find in the human — and put it in the fly and tweaked it, we induced fly eye tissue.

Biochemist Radhey Gupta of McMaster University in Canada proposes that a bacterium and an archaean fused to form the first eukaryote, based on his analysis of a pair of slow - changing genes found in what may be one of the oldest cells with a nucleus, Giardia lamblia.

«Gene finding to eradicate severe blistering disorder of the skin found in dogs.»

James Adjaye, a biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Germany, says that further work needs to be done before scientists can be sure that the genes found in the new work are actually indicate that an embryo will develop into a baby.

High in the Cederberg Mountains of South Africa grows a bristly shrub that embodies the tug - of - war taking place between industrialized and developing nations over the value of genetic resources — the genes found in plant, animal or microbial cells used for research as well as in commercial products, such as enhanced seeds and naturally derived cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

«Rare genetic cause of peritoneal mesothelioma points to targeted therapy: Genetic rearrangement in the ALK gene found in young women with mesothelioma may be targetable with FDA - approved drugs.»

Particular areas of interest include gene finding and analysis, protein design, network - based signal analysis, and image informatics.

Until now, de novo genetic mutations, alterations in a gene found for the first time in one family member, were believed to be mainly the result of new mutations in the sperm or eggs (germline) of one of the parents and passed on to their child.

The three Ras genes found in humans — H - Ras, K - Ras and N - Ras — were among the first to be linked to cancer development, and a new study led by VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Paul Dent, Ph.D., has shown the recently approved breast cancer drug neratinib can block the function of Ras as well as several other oncogenes through an unexpected process.

Computational genomics includes: bio-sequence analysis, gene expression data analysis, phylogenetic analysis, and more specifically pattern recognition and analysis problems such as gene finding, motif finding, gene function prediction, fusion of sequence and expression information, and evolutionary models.

The team realized that the Salmonella genes they found resembled genes in other bacteria with a similar function — transporting the nutrient fructose - lysine into E. coli.

Similarly, less than half of the ancient chickens had the version of the TSHR gene found worldwide in modern chickens.

When scientists engineered the plants to express the glutathione transferase (DmGSTE6) gene found in fruit flies, they found that plants expressing the gene were more resistant to TNT and were better able to remove it from contaminated soil than wild - type plants without the gene.

«Certainly the concept of looking for genes that are involved in both in differentiation and in carcinogenesis is promising, and the novel list of breast - specific regulated genes we found may encourage further study in this direction.

The study, published in New Phytologist, shows how a gene found in the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, can be expressed in Arabidopsis, a member of the cabbage family, to improve TNT removal from contaminated soil.

This is not the first gene found to affect an organism's life - span.

Collected in Denmark — where antibiotics were banned in agriculture from the 1990s for non-therapeutic use — the soil archives provide an «antibiotic resistance timeline» that reflects resistant genes found in the environment and the evolution of the same types of antibiotic resistance in medicine.

Tissues in the lower stomach regenerate often via local stem cells and regularly employ many of the same genes found in pancreatic beta cells.

The MHC is a family of genes found in all vertebrates that encodes vital proteins in the immune defense system.

Published in Nature Neuroscience, this new study lends support to the direct influence on creativity of genes found in people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

The group just published a study where they showed that the transplant decreases the amount of antibiotic resistant genes found in the patient's intestinal microbiota.

The gene they found, dubbed Odysseus, contains a so - called homeodomain, a stretch of DNA that usually changes very little even in creatures as distantly related as worms and mice.

To find the missing ingredient, Alan Cooper, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia, radiocarbon dated nearly 100 fossils from Patagonia and sequenced their mitochondrial DNA, genes found in the power plants of cells and passed down only from the mother.

The asthma gene found by Kere and his colleagues — which they immediately patented — is different because it expresses in bronchial tissue, where drugs might reach it.

«Mistletoe species lacks genes found in all other complex organisms.»

Among the 20,000 or so genes found in humans, for example, only a few dozen sites are thought to change their RNA so that it no longer matches the original DNA template.

«Gene found to be crucial for formation of certain brain circuitry.»

There are 23 new genes found only in coffee, the group finds.

«Almost half of the genes we found that affect aging are conserved in mammals,» said Dr. Kennedy.

A recently published study from two Iowa State University scientists shows that a gene found only in a single plant species can increase protein content when introduced into staple crops.

Almost 25 % of Thermotoga's genes strikingly resembled genes found in a species of Archaea, a domain of organisms that lack nuclei.

They did so using a technique called RNA interference, or RNAi, to clamp down on three genes found in infected cells, blocking the wily virus from moving to other cells.

During their study, Hsu and his colleagues determined that Insl3 and a second relaxin, Rln3, whose function is unknown, evolved from an ancestral gene found in fish.

An example is PCSK9, a gene found to be missing in a «perfectly healthy» woman in Texas that has led to a new class of cholesterol - lowering drugs, van Heel notes.

One Neanderthal gene found in modern Eurasians may increase the risk of type 2 diabetes.

A second gene found in the wild grass Aegilops tauschii, a botanical parent of today's bread wheat (T. aestivum), also helps bread wheat fight the fungus, another research team reports.

The team also compared the 7442 genes found as single copies in both the cobra and the python with the same genes in all other land vertebrates sequenced so far.

The biocatalyst is based on an enzyme expressed by a gene found in the microorganism Klebsiella pneumoniae.

Its genome has been fully sequenced, its genes are easily manipulated, and many genes found in the fruit fly control similar processes in humans.

The team also carried out a so - called metagenomic analysis, in which the genomes from all organisms in a sample are sequenced collectively; the great majority of genes they found coded for proteins never seen before.

One - hundred - ten of the genes had clear similarities in sequence to known antibiotic - resistance genes, the team discovered, and 18 of those were 100 % identical to genes found in human pathogens.

Because some of the genes found in the islands are known to help E.coli O157: H7 do its dirty work — by encoding for toxins and the like — they could well serve as new targets for drug therapies.