Sentences with phrase «now geneticists»

Archaeologists have long known how to extract millennia - old stories from a single tooth buried in an ancient ruin — and now geneticists have the tools to join...

But now geneticists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, sequenced the DNA of these skin tumors, in order to determine the genes that are responsible for the cancerogenesis.

Fossey inspired a strong conservation movement and much research, but until now geneticists had to rely on hair and stool samples to collect DNA.

But now that geneticists can compare whole genomes of parents and their offspring, they can count the actual number of new mutations per generation.

Now some geneticists see it as a second font of human diversity.

Now geneticists in Britain have hit upon a method of targeting these ultra-resistant cells.

This has always been thought of as simply an expression, but now geneticists are finding out that this is literally true.

Not exact matches

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.

Australia became EMBL's first associate member in March 2008, thanks in large part to the leadership of American developmental geneticist Nadia Rosenthal, founding director of ARMI and now scientific head of EMBL Australia.

Now that the whole Neanderthal genome has been sequenced, Harvard geneticist George Church thinks a clone could be gestated in a human surrogate mother.

In 2012, Hardy, now at University College London, and a colleague, geneticist Rita Guerreiro, wrote an editorial in which they argued that TOMM40 did not independently affect Alzheimer's risk.

Now graying and in his fifties, he studied genetics in the 1980s under the late Victor McKusick, one of the most accomplished medical geneticists of the last half - century.

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 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.

«The biosafety study that has been carried out is as thorough as it can be, and now ideology should not overwhelm scientific evidence,» says Deepak Pental, a plant geneticist at the University of Delhi here who developed the GM variety.

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.

French geneticist Jérôme Lejeune may have missed out on the Nobel Prize, but now he's nominated for an even higher honor

«Ten years ago, geneticists worked in isolation, but now there is a premium on leadership — individuals able to pull together consortiums of geneticists to amass the cohorts of thousands of subjects required to address problems of complex disease genetics,» he says.

Genetic variants of the HMGA2 gene controls beak size in the birds, evolutionary geneticist Leif Andersson and colleagues now report.

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.

The last piece of the poppy puzzle is now in hand: Plant geneticists have isolated the gene in the plant that carries out the last unknown step in converting glucose and other simple compounds into codeine, morphine, and a wide variety of other medicines.

Although the steppe hypothesis has now received a major boost, «I would not say the Anatolian hypothesis has been killed,» says Carles Lalueza - Fox, a geneticist at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, who participated in neither of the new studies.

Now, geneticists have developed a potential boon for the health of African subsistence farmers who rely on the crop: transgenic plants with roots practically free of cyanide - forming chemicals.

Geneticists now know this was a scientifically doomed project, since the genetic variation within any ethnic group far exceeds the variation between different groups.

«It is absolutely intriguing this lifestyle change can have as much effect as the most powerful drugs available to us now,» U.C.S.F. geneticist Christopher Haqq said during the news conference.

Think of our genes as the vestiges of an ancient library in which geneticists are trying to piece together and decipher the books; now think of that ruin being paved over for a new airport.

Now, an unprecedented collaboration of archaeologists and geneticists has brought the warring camps together for the first time.

«It's clear from these types of studies that the way we're keeping the lights on until late at night, the way in which society demands that we stay active for so much longer, could well be contributing to aspects of the metabolic disease we're seeing now,» says Steve Kay, a molecular geneticist at the University of California, San Diego.

Now, he has another claim on immortality: Geneticists have named a newly discovered fruit fly gene in his honor.

Geneticist Enrico Cappellini of the University of Copenhagen and biochemist Matthew Collins of the University of York in the United Kingdom said their team had extracted and decoded 5000 amino acids from a half - dozen proteins, which they will now analyze to determine the animals» sex, species, and other traits.

Deciphering Developmental Disorders, a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the UK Department of Health, 24 regional genetics services and more than 180 clinical geneticists, has now analysed the first 1000 children from its 12,000 - strong cohort, returning a genetic diagnosis for nearly a third of families.

Geneticists now think that this aberration survived because it protected early humans against serious infections that arose from more crowded living conditions.

Geneticists have now confirmed what philosophers long suspected — women are more complex than men.

The Mainz - based team of geneticists working with Dr. Christian Berger has now discovered that growth starts earlier if the Hippo signaling pathway is deactivated, meaning the resting phase can no longer be correctly maintained.

Geneticists are even now struggling to obtain DNA from a host of unidentified Asian fossils.

«It was a surprise, because the genetic sequences from the meat didn't match any of the known species,» says Scott Baker, a cetacean geneticist now at Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute in Newport, and one of the authors of the study.

«The big question for conservation of polar bears is if hybridization occurs rapidly and in combination with other stressors, will that hybridization have more of a negative effect now than it did in the past,» says Andrew Whiteley, a geneticist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Now an unprecedented collaboration of geneticists and archaeologists aims to solve the mystery once and for all!

Now, geneticists have linked the Irish snails to the Pyrenees.

But geneticists have now identified more than 300 other mutations that can cause the disease.

Now, geneticists have crafted a joint response, concluding that «there is no support from the field of population genetics for Wade's conjectures.»

A team led by geneticist Anne Ferguson - Smith of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and diabetes researcher Mary - Elizabeth Patti of Harvard Medical School has now explored this idea by studying the DNA of two generations of mice descended from an undernourished mother.

Now, nearly 140 senior human population geneticists around the world, many of whose work was cited in the book, have signed a letter to The New York Times Book Review stating that Wade has misinterpreted their work.

I would urge all the geneticists who signed the letter, several of whom I count as friends, to now read my book and judge to what extent, if any, their condemnation was justified.

At the heart of the plan is the # 650 million ($ 1 billion) Francis Crick Institute, now under construction in London and led by geneticist Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society.

But now that three vertebrate genomes have been sequenced — human, mouse, and pufferfish — geneticists are re-thinking their appraisal.

Now, the little spot, at 1600 to 1700 strong, is «considered to be quite safe,» says conservation geneticist Kristina Ramstad of Victoria University of Wellington.

Geneticist Neal Copeland of the National Cancer Institute has also been using Celera's database, but he thinks now that the consortium has finally caught up, Celera has lost its advantage.

Right now, researchers must haplotype by analyzing genetic material from large families, or in their absence track gene frequencies in lots of individuals, a statistical process that is «prone to error,» says geneticist Andrew Collins of Southampton University in the United Kingdom.

Geneticist Richard Sturm of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, an author of one of the papers says that someday scientists may find additional mutations that cause blue eyes but for now, the signs point to a single change.