Sentences with phrase «what immune genes»

For instance, «What immune genes do tortoises have to fight pathogens?

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Scientists believe that is what happened during a 1999 French gene therapy trial on a group of 10 young children with X-SCID, an immune deficiency disorder known as boy - in - the - bubble syndrome.

«As you look for methods to discern complex immune responses in human cells, more and more people look at what genes are turned on with infections or vaccination procedures.»

To understand what was unique about the LAD patients» disease, the researchers examined their immune system - related genes and proteins.

Scientists believe that's what happened during a 1999 French gene therapy trial on a group of 10 infants with X-SCID, an immune deficiency disorder known as boy - in - the - bubble syndrome.

What's more, Discher says, unpublished work from his lab suggests that adding the molecular passports to viruses that deliver genes in gene therapy also helps them avoid immune detection.

When the team looked at what gene signatures the RORγt - dependent ILCs expressed, they found high expression of major histocompatibility complex class II (MHCII) protein, which some cells use to display foreign proteins to the immune system and directly interact with T cells.

But what about the genes behind the immune system?

In this case, as in a recent case of gene borrowing between weeds (ScienceNOW, 13 November 2008), «humans were indirect agents in promoting these events,» says Enrico Coen, a geneticist at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, U.K. Geneticist Sheila Schmutz of the University of Saskatchewan in Canada wonders what else the dogs might have contributed to wolves, say, to metabolism or immune system function.

She found a gene for what's known as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-- cell surface molecules that help the immune system recognize foreigners — that was remarkably similar to one in humans that allows infected people to keep the virus in check for decades.

The cells then produce more of what the genes code for: cytokines, which are messenger molecules that circulate in the blood and activate immune cells.

«Following the trajectory of type 1 diabetes in the mice, and looking at what genes become active in the microbes and in the immune system, we think we can pinpoint some of these mechanisms that are important, if indeed the microbiome is causing diabetes,» Kostic says.

The more I look at how people's immune response happens based on this presence of this gene or that gene, the more complex it is and the more it's really apparent that what you do with your environment is so much more important than the genes you have, for most genes.

Dr. Peter Osborne: What genetic testing does, HLA - DQ2 — there are two genes, there's HLA - DQ2, alpha 1 and HLA - DQ beta 1 — these are immune genes and they're job is — and they're on Chromosome 6, their job is to produce an antenna that sits on the surface of the white blood cell, and the — the job of this antenna is to identify what is good versus what is What genetic testing does, HLA - DQ2 — there are two genes, there's HLA - DQ2, alpha 1 and HLA - DQ beta 1 — these are immune genes and they're job is — and they're on Chromosome 6, their job is to produce an antenna that sits on the surface of the white blood cell, and the — the job of this antenna is to identify what is good versus what is what is good versus what is what is bad.

Reduce the inflammation, reduce the activation of your immune system, which is what turns on the genes.