Sentences with phrase «many leading geneticists»

«Since its completion, the book has been endorsed by prominent scientists including Philip Skell, a member of the National Academy of Sciences; Scott Turner, an evolutionary biologist at the State University of New York; and Professor Norman Nevin, one of Britain's leading geneticists.»

I initially took interest in copy number variation because of a medical diagnosis that was terminal and genetically caused, or so it was claimed by a leading geneticist in my city.

Science Can not Prove History In the movie Religulous (which I recently reviewed), Bill Maher challenged Francis Collins (the leading geneticist of the Human Genome Project) to scientifically prove that Jesus really lived, died, and rose again.

Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith Edited by Francis S. Collins HarperOne, 2010 352 pp., $ 19.99 What kind of flowers does Francis S. Collins — one of the world's leading geneticists — gather?

Health reforms in the US must include fundamental changes to the way medical insurance schemes operate, a leading geneticist said last week.

Finding a specific gene responsible for racing performance «takes a lot of work and a lot of time,» says Steven Tammariello, the lead geneticist for Lexington - based Performance Genetics.

«Infected butterflies lead geneticists up the garden path.»

But difficulties in pinning down susceptibility genes in those regions led geneticist Matthew State at Yale University Medical School to take a different approach.

Eve is the daughter of the leading geneticist at super secretive Spiker Biopharm, and after a terrible accident, she finds herself bedridden and bored.

The Irish Wolfhound Foundation is working with leading geneticists to help identify the gene (s) involved with bone cancer.

Not exact matches

«There are a lot of naturally occurring dog diseases — especially psychiatric diseases — that are very similar to human diseases,» Hyun Ji Noh, a geneticist at the Broad Institute and the lead author on the study, told Business Insider.

A team led by geneticist Steven McCarroll of the Broad Institute, based in Cambridge, Mass., combed through genetic information from about 29,000 schizophrenia cases, 36,000 controls and 700 brain samples from deceased patients.

A team of ophthalmologists, neurologists, geneticists, and pediatricians, led by Marcia B. Tartarella, MD, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, evaluated the infants from January to May 2016.

The study, led by Eske Willerslev, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Copenhagen, compared the genomes of three ancient skeletons — a 24,000 - year - old child found in central Siberia, a 12,600 - year - old Montana child known as Anzick - 1 and a 4,000 - year - old Saqqaq Eskimo from Greenland — to the genomes of 31 indigenous people currently living in Asia, North and South America, and the Pacific islands.

An international team led by anthropologist Dr. Michaela Harbeck from the Bavarian State Collection for Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy (SAPM) and population geneticist Professor Joachim Burger of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has now performed the first genomic analysis of populations that lived on the former territory of the Roman Empire in Bavaria, Germany, from around 500 AD and provided the first direct look at the complex population dynamics of what has popularly been known as the Migration Period, or «Völkerwanderung» in German.

The latest work, led by geneticists Iñigo Olalde and David Reich at Harvard Medical School, involved 103 researchers at dozens of institutions, including Bronze Age archaeologists.

Evolutionary geneticist Austin Burt, who leads Target Malaria's research at Imperial College London and has no affiliation with Safe Genes, concurs.

Cancer geneticist Mary - Claire King of the University of Washington argues that BRCA1's susceptibility to large deletions and genetic rearrangements could lead to sporadic tumors.

But in a Frankenstein - like maneuver, French molecular geneticists led by Thierry Heidmann of the Gustave - Roussy Institute have now reassembled one of these long - lost retroviruses into its original infectious form.

The study, led by evolutionary geneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen, also marks a milestone in collaboration between geneticists and linguists, who for years stayed in their separate camps.

«The overarching theme is that genome - based diagnosis is now hitting mainstream medicine,» says Han Brunner, a medical geneticist at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands, who leads one of the projects.

It is really great to see how evidence from different disciplines can be combined to understand these complex past demographic processes,» said population geneticist Torsten Günther, one of the lead authors.

To find out whether giant and red pandas also gained the ability to taste the bitter toxins in bamboo, researchers led by conservation geneticist Fuwen Wei at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing screened the genomes of both species.

The work «helps us to understand how chromosomes have changed over time, which chromosome rearrangements may have led to the formation of new species, and what might be driving chromosomal rearrangements,» says Janine Deakin, a geneticist at the University of Canberra who was not involved with the work.

The new study, led by Johannes Krause, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, used next - generation sequencing methods to read stretches of any DNA present in a sample and fish out those that resembled human DNA.

The secret viral code was spotted by a team led by Rotem Sorek, a microbial geneticist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

But in 1999 a group led by geneticists at the University of Sydney in Australia discovered that methylation of the fur color genes persists in the female germ line, allowing it to be passed down to offspring like a change in the DNA.

But despite such tantalizing signs of a genetic bottleneck, «until now there had been no clear genetic evidence of reduced genetic variability,» says lead author Svante Pääbo, a geneticist at the University of Munich in Germany.

Previous studies of a skin pigmentation gene called MC1R had led many geneticists to think that dark skin colour — which is thought to protect against UV damage — is a fixed and consistent trait in all people of African descent.

This innovation, argues anthropologist and geneticist Spencer Wells, set into motion a chain of events that would ultimately lead to our present era of overpopulation, infectious disease and anxiety — a mismatch between culture and biology.

* Lead study author Kristi Miller - Saunders, a molecular geneticist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Nanaimo, has not been given the green light to speak freely with the press, however she did respond to questions from Scientific American via e-mail.

Matthew Brown, a skeletal geneticist at the University of Oxford says the gene is «a really hot candidate for [human] chondrocalcinosis,» a rare genetic form of joint stiffening that leads to crystal deposition and shows a similarly imbalanced pyrophosphate distribution in the joints.

A collaborative team led by geneticists from Trinity College Dublin compared the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of 15 historical taxidermy specimens from Britain and Ireland and nine modern samples taken from Irish dairy and feral populations.

There were two extended reviews in the leading scientific weekly Nature, one by geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, the other by the plant cytologist Irene Manton.

The authors, led by geneticists Andrés Ruiz - Linares of Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and Garrett Hellenthal of University College London, trace a significant portion of this ancestry to conversos, or Jews who converted to Christianity in 1492, when Spain expelled those who refused to do so.

A team led by Stanford developmental geneticist David Kingsley has been trying to unravel how a strain of mice called ank develop progressive ankylosis, or fusion of the bones, which completely immobilizes, and eventually kills, the animals by about 6 months of age.

Nearly 4 million new cases of Chlamydia are reported each year in the United States, says lead author Richard Stephens, a microbial geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Researchers led by geneticist Kathryn North of the Institute for Neuromuscular Research in Sydney, Australia, decided to investigate how ACTN3 affects muscle activity so dramatically.

What they declare is completely at odds with what's in there,» says Mike Bunce, a geneticist at Murdoch University near Perth, Australia, who led the study.

One commercially available alternative is pyrosequencing, which also detects nucleotides as they are added to a single strand of DNA, but it can lead to errors because it is harder to differentiate between a single base and a whole stretch of identical bases next to each other, says Elaine Mardis, a geneticist at Washington University in St Louis, US.

The work, now posted on the bioRxiv preprint server, was done by a large team led by geneticists David Reich and Iosif Lazaridis of Harvard Medical School in Boston and Wolfgang Haak of the University of Adelaide in Australia.

According to the study's lead researcher, geneticist Albert La Spada of the University of California, San Diego, «the prospect of an oral drug is conceivable.»

Britain risks losing its considerable lead in the plant breeding technology of the future unless it increases its spending, according to plant geneticists.

«Over the last decade, geneticists have identified hundreds of genetic risk factors for several human diseases, but the functional consequences of those factors on relevant cells are largely unknown,» said Towfique Raj, PhD, BWH Department of Neurology and a postdoctoral scholar at the Broad Institute, lead study author.

Recently, geneticists have started closing in on clues that might lead to treatments for Fadida's disease.

«It was a big challenge to extract the DNA sequences from the fossil mammoths and mastodons and then to line these up with DNA from the modern elephants,» says Nadin Rohland, an evolutionary geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston and the study's lead author.

«I think within five years, we'll see people start to use a combination of genetic, behavioral and other sophisticated data to develop individualized weight management plans,» says Molly Bray, a geneticist and professor of nutritional sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, who led the working group.

Co-author Andrea Manica, a population geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, has posted a note online explaining that incompatibility between two software packages used to compare Mota's genome with the reference human genome led the software program to simply drop certain DNA variants, with the result that all living Africans seemed to have inherited more «Eurasian» DNA than they actually did.

Geneticists continue to unravel our ancestral evolution in hopes of better understanding how formerly advantageous genes have led to modern - day health problems.

«The idea that social interaction may have facilitated or led to selection for us to be individually recognizable implies that human social structure has driven the evolution of how we look,» said coauthor Michael Nachman, a population geneticist, professor of integrative biology and director of the UC Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.