Sentences with phrase «genetic research at»

Amazingly miscast, Alba, is supposed to be the Director of Genetic research at Doom's lab but she doesn't look smart enough to figure out an elevator.

He's with the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Dr. Sekar Kathiresan and his team of investigators, Pradeep Natarajan, MD, and research coordinator Erina Kii in the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), are looking for a needle in a haystack.

In 2004 Guilherme Neves and Andrew Chess, now at the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, tracked the roles played by other genes on chromosome 21 — in this case using a fruit fly as the model.

There was no facility for genetic research at that time, and for two decades, she lobbied government officials hard for it.

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or, more radically, for posting their genetic data to an anonymized, shared research database that might be used to identify those at risk for certain diseases or to identify those who respond better to specific classes of drugs, from beta blockers to cancer medicines.

The firm's likely hoping to capitalize on a significant opportunity — the global direct - to - consumer genetic testing market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 20 %, from $ 117 million in 2017 $ 611 million by 2026, according to Credence Research.

Already at that time, the firm had invested in Synthego, a genetic engineering startup that provides scientists with genetic material used in their CRISPR research, and Color Genomics, a company whose genetics services help its customers understand their risk for the most common hereditary cancers.

In making a decision regarding research into human cloning, we must pay close attention to the benefits it would provide for those who suffer the worst genetic disorders; we must look closely at the possibility of some groups or individuals being exploited or neglected through human cloning; and we must keep before us the welfare of the children who would enter the world through cloning.

A child conceived from artificial insemination by donor does not face the same situation as would a child having no biological and genetic father at all, but perhaps there are important similarities that could be uncovered through research.

These principles go at least some way toward guiding our aims in genetic research and directing our use of advances in knowledge.

Arguing against the motion is Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture.

Arguing against the motion was Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture.

Achim Dobermann, deputy director general for research at IRRI, said that the Institute uses genetic modification only when other methods of breeding have been exhausted and that GM offers a potentially very high humanitarian, environmental, and productivity benefit.

«Our study suggests that epigenetic changes to cells treated with cigarette smoke sensitize airway cells to genetic mutations known to cause lung cancers,» says Stephen Baylin, M.D., the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research and professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

Previous research has suggested that antibodies — immune system proteins that can attack viruses — in a mother might be less effective against certain genetic variants of HIV - 1 in her body, thereby allowing for transmission of resistant viruses to her infant at delivery.

Researchers from several institutions, including, UCLA, Boston University, Stanford University and the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife, analyzed blood samples from nearly 10,000 people to find that genetic markers in the gene responsible for keeping telomeres (tips of chromosomes) youthfully longer, did not translate into a younger biologic age as measured by changes in proteins coating the DNA.

As a postdoc at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City, Rogers used the pig model to better understand the genetic underpinnings of cystic fibrosis — research that earned him a first - author publication in Science in the 26 September 2008 issue (p. 1837).

«It's testing whether we can get bigger changes in diet using a personalised approach, and part of that is using genetic information,» says team member John Mathers, director of the Human Nutrition Research Centre at Newcastle University, UK.

Prof. Mike Recher's research group at the Department of Biomedicine of the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel recently discovered a genetic immunodeficiency associated with serious, chronic autoimmune enteritis in an adult patient.

Nevertheless, in his speech and at a related news conference, Watson told German scientists that their nation's genetic research is not moving fast enough.

In my case, funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Precollege Science Education Program Initiative for Biomedical Research Institutions and the Science Education Partnership Award from the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health enable the Genetic Science Learning Center to provide postdoctoral training for research scientists transitioning into science education Research Institutions and the Science Education Partnership Award from the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health enable the Genetic Science Learning Center to provide postdoctoral training for research scientists transitioning into science education Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health enable the Genetic Science Learning Center to provide postdoctoral training for research scientists transitioning into science education research scientists transitioning into science education careers.

Now, new research suggests changes at the epigenetic level — specifically alterations in proteins that affect gene expression, rather than genetic mutations — could be driving childhood ependymomas.

«The implications for mouse experiments are profound, and could help us cut through some persistent sources of confusion,» in genetic research, said Dr. Thaddeus Stappenbeck, an immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a co-author of the new study.

The clinching evidence came this past year, when biologist Carol Bult and her colleagues at the Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Maryland, deciphered the microbe's complete genetic sequence, consisting of 1.7 million genetic letters in its DNA.

For the Colombian finding, Aliota and his research team, which includes Jorge Osorio, professor of pathobiological sciences at SVM, and two visiting doctoral students from Colombia, tested samples from 22 patients for the genetic fingerprints of Zika, dengue and chikungunya viruses.

New discoveries half a world away by a team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, the Western Australian Museum, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have helped properly identify these elusive creatures through genetic analysis.

Investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) report pre-clinical research showing that a genetic variant encoded in neutrophil cystolic factor 1 (NCF1) is associated with increased risk for autoimmune diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis, and Sjögren's syndrome, in the January 2017 issue of Nature Genetics.

After receiving her Ph.D., Nelson headed off to the Philippines to study plant disease and genetic mapping at the International Rice Research Institute, where she was partly funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Previous research conducted at Mount Sinai found that the trafficking of protein molecules between the nucleus (the cellular compartment containing the genetic information of the cell) and the cytoplasm is altered in neurodegenerative disease.

The team also looked at changes in the genetic sequence of the Zika NS1 protein over time, noted David L. Akey, a research scientist in Smith's lab and the study's other lead author.

Some DNA program efforts can raise complex legal and ethical questions, however, and Jennifer Wagner, a 2014 - 2015 AAAS Congressional Fellow and former research associate at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies, and Sara Katsanis, an Instructor of Science & Society at Duke University, are conducting interviews, surveys, and focus groups around two such programs to learn more about the perspectives of the people involved and to develop «best practices» guidelines.

A team led by Margaret Pericak - Vance of Duke University, Jonathan Haines of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Allen Roses — a former Duke researcher now in charge of genetics research at the Glaxo Wellcome Company in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina — scanned the DNA of members of 16 large families with a high rate of Alzheimer's, looking at 280 genetic markers that might help identify candidatresearch at the Glaxo Wellcome Company in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina — scanned the DNA of members of 16 large families with a high rate of Alzheimer's, looking at 280 genetic markers that might help identify candidatResearch Triangle Park, North Carolina — scanned the DNA of members of 16 large families with a high rate of Alzheimer's, looking at 280 genetic markers that might help identify candidate genes.

Burton Andersen, chief of infectious diseases at the University of Illinois, Chicago, agrees that further research into the nature of the Yanomami's lack of an immune response would bolster the scientists» evidence: «It's certainly possible they [the Yanomami] never evolved any special genetic background to protect themselves.»

She did her master's degree research project at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB), also in Warsaw, looking at the effect of genetic mutations on the function of an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of heme, using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism.

«The next step of progress is to use this knowledge to decipher what potential impact the genetic variants can have on the health of individuals, when we conduct health - related research,» added Professor Michael Pepper, Unit Director of the South African Medical Research Council's (SAMRC) Stem Cell Research and Therapy Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Presearch,» added Professor Michael Pepper, Unit Director of the South African Medical Research Council's (SAMRC) Stem Cell Research and Therapy Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of PResearch Council's (SAMRC) Stem Cell Research and Therapy Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of PResearch and Therapy Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria.

The first government - funded human genomics research study performed on African soil — aimed at unlocking the unique genetic character of southern African populations — has revealed a high level of genetic diversity.

A decade ago, this week, scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the Institute for Genomic Research announced they had decoded the genetic information inside Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted disease (STD) syphilis.

The study involved participants of European descent exclusively, but co-author Roy Perlis, a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, notes it's standard method to focus on one group as a starting point, since previous research shows genetic markers can vary by ethnicity.

«Most previous research into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Celresearch into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the CelResearch (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Cell paper.

The research team's hunt for such age - related genetic associations involved studying more than 8 million single nucleotide polymorphisms — changes of one nucleotide for another at a particular spot in the DNA — in 2,693 individuals.

Over the course of a year, a committee led by Green and Leslie Biesecker, chief of the Genetic Disease Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, has been weighing how to handle «incidental findings» that turn up when a genome or exome is sequenced for some other medical reason.

The second team, from the Janssen Center of Excellence for Immunoprophylaxis in Leiden, the Netherlands, and the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., glued the stalk together by creating a series of genetic mutations at its top.

Researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in collaboration with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center researchers have identified an unprecedented genetic survival strategy that would be right at home in an Agatha Christie murder mystery novel.

The researchers conducted genetic testing of the plant, as well as genomic research and computational modeling to arrive at their conclusions.

«We're part of medicine now,» Leslie Biesecker, chief of the Genetic Disease Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and co-chair of the ACMG working group that wrote the report, told Science at the time.

Danish journalist Lone Frank and director Pernille Rose Grønkjær took viewers on a deeply personal journey of discovery as Frank explored current research on the genetic factors at play in personality development.

Because environmental exposures have not had time to impact IBD progression in children, researchers have a clearer genetic picture of the disease allowing them to pick out additional genes overlooked in adult research, says senior study author Hakon Hakonarson, director of the Center for Applied Genomics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

«We're part of medicine now,» Leslie Biesecker, chief of the Genetic Disease Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and co-chair of the ACMG working group that wrote the report, told

The research looked at more than five million genetic variations, called single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs (pronounced «snips»), in each participant in the study and compared the frequency of these SNPs with that of the control subjects.