Sentences with phrase «information about their gene»

But the image, by Fernan Federici and Lionel Dupuy of the University of Cambridge, is not just a pretty picture — it contains information about gene expression in the stem of genetically modified thale cress, or Arabidopsis thaliana.

We can also ask which genes are changing, for the black - footed ferret genome is annotated with information about the genes and other genetic elements it encodes and with pointers to what is known about these genes in other organisms.

Lower sequence coverage (survey sequencing) of related species can yield a wealth of information about gene content and putative regulatory elements.

Information about gene regulation and transcription happens on this scale.

The answers they have discovered so far reveal critical information about gene regulation; specifically, that cells are used to record the positional identity in human tissues, and that the «perturbation,» the disturbance, of such programs plays a major role in cancer progression, especially in metastasis, whereby cancer cells spread to other parts of the body.

There is still controversy as to whether we should include information about genes that we can not take action on such as APOE4 and its link to Alzheimer's disease.

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The data collected from the dogs reveled some interesting information about a gene called POMC.

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With 23andMe's ancestry reports, users have access to information about their ancestry composition (which geographic regions your genes align with), haplogroups (genetic populations that share a common ancestor), and Neanderthal ancestry.

Doctor Gene Heslin, a family practice physician, and Mark McKinney from the Healthcare Information Exchange of New York, joined us to talk about this.

The information collected is then combined with information about the patient's genes, proteins and metabolism to help determine what drug and dose might be best for that person.

The nationally representative survey of more than 4,700 U.S. adults centered on public views about: gene editing that might give babies a lifetime with much reduced risk of serious disease, implantation of brain chips that potentially could give people a much improved ability to concentrate and process information, and transfusions of synthetic blood that might give people much greater speed, strength and stamina.

They have also used state - of - the - art information about brain development to accurately pinpoint new genes and biological pathways implicated in this disorder.

He and his colleagues gathered genetic data from 156 frog species and combined this with earlier information about two genes from 145 different frogs, for a total of 301 distinct frog species from all 55 families of frogs.

The tool then uses information from similar cells to make an educated guess about what the level of gene expression should be.

This capability allows a scientist, for example, to instruct a software applet to go find information about a particular gene — but only information that comes with a free license.

It is typically less expensive to get preselected information about the 20,000 or so genes that make up a person's exome — the section of the genome that provides instructions for making proteins — than to perform a more precision - oriented test that targets a single gene.

Yet a year after issuing its guidance, the ACMG produced an addendum: patients should have the opportunity to opt out of having information about even that short list of analyzed genes.

The wonderful x-ray structures of RNA polymerase published in the past 3 years have revealed a wealth of information about how genes are transcribed.

«This is an exciting study of a very rare bone disorder that not only identified the responsible mutation in half of the patients, but uncovered fundamental information about the role of a cancer - related gene in the metabolic pathways of normal bone,» said study co-senior author Joan Marini, Ph.D., M.D., of NICHD.

As large - scale genome sequencing projects, such as the Human Genome Project, near completion, the research community's focus is shifting toward efforts to determine functional information about these sequenced genes.

Fortunately only about 3 percent of that is actual genetic information that gets translated into proteins; the rest is regulatory sequences, old, nonfunctioning genes, or outright nonsense.

But while this study has proved that the technique works in a simple organism, it could also be applied to other bacterial species, yeast or even human cells to find useful information about how genes are controlled and how they can be manipulated.

But it's very difficult if we don't have information about the optimum sequences for controlling genes,» says Dr Jae - Seong Yang, co-author of the study.

In the last 15 years, researchers worldwide have generated a large amount of information about the epigenome: proteins, factors and epigenetic markers which, when bound to DNA, regulate gene expression.

Bray speculates that in the future, patients might submit saliva samples for gene sequencing, along with using automated sensors to collect information about factors such as their environment, diet, activity and stress.

«What we have done here is use information about the ancient history of spiders to look for genes that participate in vision and we have found that many of our educated guesses are correct,» says Morehouse.

The site's core pages give an overview of fly development, and others list detailed information about the locations of genes in chromosomes, the structure and function of the proteins they encode, and references to the scientific literature.

The human genome — the sum total of hereditary information in a person — contains a lot more than the protein - coding genes teenagers learn about in school, a massive international project has found.

When a group of researchers in the Undiagnosed Disease Network at Baylor College of Medicine realized they were spending days combing through databases searching for information regarding gene variants, they decided to do something about it.

But this information - storage view reveals almost nothing about what makes specific genes turn on or off at different times, in different tissue types, at different moments in a person's day or life.

Researchers from Turku, Finland, have discovered new information about the mechanisms which maintain gene activity in human embryonic stem cells.

The three billion units of code furnished in the new tests will also dwarf the relative trickle of information provided by consumer gene - testing services such as 23andMe, which currently look (postnatally) only at perhaps about one million locations in the genome.

These efforts produced a wealth of information about how different genes, and their associated pathways, modulate aging in yeast.

The tip of this ear of corn is growing abnormally, but provided scientists with information about how to tweak expression of a key gene to boost yield.

There are those letters that encode genes, our hereditary information, and those that provide instructions about how cells can use the genes.

And this piece of information about RGS1 might become valuable down the line when we know more about other genes, because it might fall into place in the puzzle.»

«By combining an interrogation of gene networks with advanced data analysis and statistics, we have generated clinically meaningful information about stress and aging that is relevant to the broader population.»

This protein is expressed in the anterior part of limb buds, and regulates the expression of a number of genes providing cells with information about their position along the anterior - posterior axis.

Including information about other viruses and virus - like elements: adenoviruses that infect animals and are one of the causes of the common cold; certain bacteriophages that infect bacteria; transpovirons which infect giant viruses; and a Tetrahymena transposable element (Tlr1), the virus «evolutionary tree» appears as a network of swapped genes.

«Gene expression patterns in the hippocampus may retain information about past locomotor activity.»

The model looks at the frequency with which different genomic regions appear in the slice to infer information about the relative positions of genes and regions called enhancers that activate them.

If you took high school biology in the 1990s, you probably learned about the molecular basis for human genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis (1989), Huntingtons (1993), Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (1987), and a rapidly growing list of single - gene disorders, and the correspondingly rapid growth in clinical diagnostic technology based on DNA sequence information, enabling certain diagnosis, sometimes before the advent of overt symptoms.

«The copied genes show us which bacteria species are in the sample and tell us new information about the diversity of arsenate - reducing microorganisms.»

For more information about SAM, including a tool for getting optimized guide sequences for activating any human gene, go to http://sam.genome-engineering.org/.

«You could get information about specific genes, but sequencing technologies were very slow,» said Jansson, now a division director of biological sciences at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Wash..

At this week's Digital Life Design (DLD) conference in Germany, renowned scientists Craig Venter, Ph.D., and Richard Dawkins wowed the audience with a conversation about genes and information technology.

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Viruses that store their information in RNA - genetic material that is the middle - man between our genes and the proteins they code for - evolved alongside the backboned - animals the viruses infect, according to internationals scientists, including Read more about Ancient origins of viruses discovered - Scimex

Genetic data combined with information on gene expression and epigenomics in relevant tissues, and clinical information, can provide clues about the effects of genetic changes within an individual's genome that increase or decrease one's risk of developing type 2 diabetes and its complications, including heart and kidney disease.