Sentences with phrase «many useful genes»

Breeding methods have been continually evolving, becoming more sophisticated and accurate at incorporating useful genes and traits into new crop varieties.

... Thus, the creative and laborious work required to identify therapeutically useful genes may result in products that infringe a claim to one of the multitude of ESTs.

For the dozens of labs at work on the problem, coming up with useful genes, known as transgenes, is not the hard part — it's how to transfer enough copies of the transgenes into free - ranging populations.

Lost traits would be difficult to re-create, he says, because modern livestock lack living wild relatives — a reserve of potentially useful genes that has saved agricultural crops in the past.

Thinking they may have hit upon a useful gene that could reveal disease pathways, his group searched to see if the mouse mutation could also be found in schizophrenic humans.

In all, the researchers were able to position more than 1000 markers on the chromosome that will help them and others hunt for useful genes.

The genome contains 3 to 4 times more DNA than other microbial genomes sequenced so far, and it's chock full of useful genes with relatively little useless DNA in the way.

The next step was to see if useful genes could be switched on by the same method.

You can do anything as long as you find the ingredients to accomplish it, and you never know what sort of useful gene you can uncover in the Monsties you hatch.

It can also result in the loss of useful gene versions without breeders realizing they have done so.

Not exact matches

Keith Fargo, the Alzheimer's Association director of scientific programs and outreach, told Business Insider in 2017 that the Alzheimer's report, which would tell me whether I had a mutation on my APOE gene, was more useful in the context of research than it was for predicting who might get the disease.

Their children didn't need to commit incest; they simply mixed with other groups of mortal humans outside Eden, who passed on the useful Neanderthal genes we inherited.

Topher shows us how easy it is to slip back into old patterns of illogic, though he will quite likely demonstrate how no longer useful traits get weeded out of the gene pool as those few like him fade into the past.

thanks Gene... I have been «through» numerous blog sites in my own journey sitting at this machine... Naked Pastor is one of 3 that have stuck because you «usually» touch something inside me that reacts... sometimes negative, sometimes positive, always useful on my journey.

On the contrary, he finds it useful to ponder an array of reductionist attempts to explain the existence of religion, from that which seeks to pinpoint the area of the human brain or the specific genes connected to religiosity to that which sees religion as a malfunction of the human mind or a vestigial remnant from a primitive stage of human development suitable only for whimpering, immature dullards (a point of view championed by the new atheists).

The unique advantage of genetic modification lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits into new rice varieties.

Beyond this, the unique power of GM lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.

Genetic modification is a useful tool to help us understand the function of genes.

It's useful to keep in mind that no one is born with a gene for automatically knowing how to care for an infant!

Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, knew that stem cells are more useful for gene therapy than ordinary cells, because they produce multiple daughter cells with the modified genes.

«CRISPR - on is a tool that will be very useful for studying many biological processes, particularly for studying gene functions and gene networks,» says Whitehead Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch.

But when the researchers compared the genomes of opossums and humans, they found a surprising number of similar immune - related genes, meaning it's useful for just the opposite of the expected reason: The gray short - tailed opossum is a nice model for immunology research.

And a dog genome sequence has made the animals an even more useful model by quickening the search for disease - causing genes.

These results illustrate a useful approach for studying the effect of gene expression on cardiac contractility.

Who knows, those lost genes might be useful to us 1,000 years from now, but there's no way to preserve them.

Genes that encode therapeutically useful proteins can be of enormous scientific and financial value because they permit large - scale production of the encoded proteins through recombinant DNA technology.

There are innumerable different viruses, but the human adenovirus 5, which normally causes the symptoms of a typical cold, has substantial advantages: Its genome can be replaced completely by an artificial one which contains only «useful» genes.

While the baby was breastfeeding, the bacteria in his stomach contained numerous genes useful for breaking down milk sugars.

The work, published in tomorrow's issue of Science, * holds out hope that gene therapy will be useful for limiting the severity of Parkinson's, a progressive disease that afflicts about 500,000 people in the United States alone.

A: Genetic markers are found all the time that come from comparing people with a disease to those without the disease, but until you figure out what the gene does, it is not useful information.

Infidelity may sound like a bad thing to humans, but for birds, Botero says, seeking out superior genes could be a useful strategy for surviving climate change.

The study highlights a «useful and effective technique of reducing introgression of coyote genes into red wolf populations,» says Dave Mech, a wolf biologist and senior scientist with the Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey in St. Paul, who was not involved with the research.

Galas told me, looking back: «Darwin was founded on the idea of pulling out genes and seeing if they'd be useful or therapeutic.

The results showed that AAV was in fact useful for gene therapy; it just had to be applied the right way.

«While they're useful for studying gene function in an animal, they also have their own inherent interest,» Melton says.

«Given the similarities in the molecules and the mechanisms involved in limb development in vertebrates and invertebrates, the fly is a very useful genetic model in which to identify new genes that potentially participate in limb development in vertebrates and their possible association with congenital diseases,» says Ana Ferreira, who has participated in the study.

Although AdV proved too destructive for regular gene therapy, for instance, it turns out to be supremely useful in treating cancer, where you want to rouse the immune system.

«These findings illustrate how resurrection plants manipulate sugar metabolism to promote desiccation tolerance and may provide candidate genes that are potentially useful for the development of stress tolerant crops.»

«Soybean genotypes carrying Rpp1b, Rpp2, Rpp3, and Rpp5a resistance genes, and cultivars Hyuuga and UG5 (carrying more than one resistance gene), were observed to be resistant against most of the African rust strains, and therefore may be useful for soybean - breeding programs in Africa and elsewhere,» Hartman says.

Gene therapy could target the production of IL - 6 in bone marrow without suppressing its useful effects elsewhere in the body.

And although DNA - marker - assisted breeding seems to be helpful to increase yields, gene insertion seems to be much less useful.

For example, many of the genes in the new networks are related to cancer, suggesting that certain cancer treatments that target these genes might also be useful to treat ASD.

From their many sizes and colors (vibrantly demonstrated by the potatoes on offer at the Bolivian market pictured above) along with genes that resist drought, wild relatives represent a genetic storehouse of potentially useful traits, such as the genes that allowed potatoes to recover from the blight that precipitated the Irish potato famine.

But, says Packer, «if you want to understand how these genes interact, the honey bee might be a useful model.»

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.

«Nevertheless, this gene will be useful in combination with other STB resistance genes, and our study provides tools for rapid lab - based tracing of Stb6 in wheat breeding lines,» says Kanyuka.

In addition, says Smith, the mismatched probes should prove useful in assessing the compatibility of an organ donor and a recipient, by allowing researchers to quickly identify which version of the complicated HLA gene each person possesses.

Although experts caution that it's a long way from mice to people, the experiments provide some hope that gene therapy may eventually prove useful in treating MS.

This test may be particularly useful for patients with high grade serous ovarian cancer because the mutated cancer gene TP53 is found in more than 99 per cent of patients with this form of the disease.

Molecular geneticist Lisa Baumbach of the University of Miami says the technique should be useful in screening for inherited forms of breast cancer, for which researchers must use many probes to distinguish among multiple mutations in a gene.