Sentences with phrase «about gene from»

But what about Gene from God Hand??

You can take just about any gene from a sequencing study or GWAS and — with the assistance of a nice resource like Gene Cards — come up with a story that might connect mutations / variants in that gene to your phenotype of choice.

Not exact matches

This Wolbachia approach is promising because it doesn't require genetically engineering or modifying the bugs — a strategy that has triggered opposition from people concerned about releasing modified genes into the wild.

Suppose it could be shown from past letters that my father met my mother because he missed his train, and so caught the one on which he found this beautiful young woman sitting; suppose, further, that a super-computer could show that some of my genes can be traced back to a small creature scrabbling about in the Triassic mud.

we live, some of us acquire cancer through DNA replication from our parents (BRCA I believe the gene is in breast cancer) and some of us have our DNA get a bit askew, some of us incur it through environmental causes (thru smoking or on the job causes) it would be nice to sit at the right hand of a superflyguy and chat about things ad foreverum..

When AMIA leaders talked to me about their departure from the Episcopal Church, they focused more on the doctrinal problems represented by Bishop Spong than on the sexual issues raised by the election of gay bishop V. Gene Robinson.

Last, had I known that alcoholism is a disease worse than cancer, and that it ran through the family genes thus any baby born had a strong chance of becoming one... well, that seals the deal but, I bet the parents who also fell for religiosity, not knowing it was an enclave for pedophiles... talk about regrets from hell.

An article in New Scientist (12 May 2012) explored the fact that a double mutation of a single gene seems to have taken place about 2.5 million years ago, beginning the separation of homo from Australopithecus.

Speaking about the film recently in Los Angeles, Cera — who in this film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away from his usual one - note nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (who also did the zany cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning of the film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the film's hyperkinetic action sequences are really just the same as the dance scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.

To clear up confusion about the origin of the aroma gene found in Thai Jasmine rice, scientists from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) analyzed 318 varieties of aromatic rice from the International Rice Genebank, including 16 types of Thai Jasmine rice.

«If you get some lousy genes from your parents, you can't really fix that, and it's not easy to do something about your economic status.

On May 2, 2017, a reporter from The New York Times visited Tidmarsh and talked to Mass Audubon regional scientist Gene Albanese live about the restoration.

They are no more alike than any sibling set, sharing about 50 % of their genetic markers in a unique combination of genes from both parents.

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

We don't know much about phallus evolution (external genitalia generally don't mineralize, so the fossil record is of little help), but we can compare the expression of phallus genes from organism to organism.

Join Josh and Chuck as they explore the science behind the Stuff You Should Know about everything from genes to the Galapagos.

That result, reported in a paper posted online December 1 at BioRxiv.org, directly contradicts a previous study concluding that tardigrades got about 17 percent of their genes from bacteria and other organisms.

Thought to have disappeared from the ancestors of modern pigs about 20 million years ago, the gene helps cells dissipate more heat and burn fat.

(When two brothers come from the same mother and father, about 50 percent of their genes should be identical.)

One day in 1989, he got a call from biologist Martin Chalfie at Columbia, who had heard about Prasher's attempts to clone the GFP gene.

PONDERING whether a baby got mum or dad's eyes may seem like idle speculation, but knowing which parent certain genes came from can tell you about your risk of disease.

At the same time, I had a great opportunity to learn much about the molecular aspects of the work, from gene construction to plant transformation and screening.

What most people know about the inheritance of eye color is that brown comes from a dominant gene (needing one copy only) and blue from a recessive gene (needing two copies).

Readers will have at their fingertips key articles in the history of science from the late 19th through the early 21st centuries, including research about the human genome, breast and colon cancer genes, and the Bose - Einstein condensate in physics.

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.

Kuiken worries that this could sow suspicions about gene drives in parts of the world that view the US military in a less - than - favourable light, including countries that stand to benefit from the elimination of disease carriers such as mosquitoes.

That's where genomic analysis can help: It turns out that Methanosarcina had acquired a particularly fast means of making methane, through gene transfer from another microbe — and the team's detailed mapping of the organism's history now shows that this transfer happened at about the time of the end - Permian extinction.

They compared each individual's lifespan to that of their relatives and their degree of separation and found that genes explained about 16 percent of the longevity variation seen in their data — on the low end of previous estimates which have ranged from about 15 percent to 30 percent.

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

For years, the favored recipe for making a modern European was this: Start with DNA from a hunter - gatherer whose ancestors lived in Europe 45,000 years ago, then add genes from an early farmer who migrated to the continent about 9000 years ago.

Mi - Prostate Score developed from a discovery in the lab of Arul Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D., in 2005 of a genetic anomaly that occurs in about half of all prostate cancers, an instance of two genes changing places and fusing together.

All land vertebrates carry a version of the FOXP2 gene, so some of the Oxford researchers then teamed up with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany to analyze what is unique about the variant in humans and to track how the gene had evolved in our ancestors.

However, in the wake of fatalities from gene therapy and other technologies, as well as the potential for cancers associated with stem cell transplants, governments are understandably nervous about safety issues — not to mention the ethical maze of tinkering with fledgling life.

Apart from age, genes accounted for about half of the difference among individuals in their level of delay discounting.

Green explains that siRNAs must be encapsulated in particles that are different from those used to carry DNA because siRNAs are about 250 times smaller than the DNA molecules usually used for gene therapy.

«Little is known even about what genes distinguish one neuron from another, even though they might perform quite different functions,» Kandel says.

Moreover, because they had an idea of what cells the genes came from and what kinds of gene sequences produce what kinds of proteins, they were able to draw some conclusions about what all those genes are good for.

Although these crops are not GM varieties — they were created by mutating existing canola genes, not by introducing new ones — their unique DNA should move about just like DNA from GM crops.

The Nature study also adds to what is known about how genes are transferred from one species to another when individuals from two closely related species mate.

It is found in about 1 in 2,000 people, and occurs when an individual inherits a defective gene copy from both parents.

Domestic animals from cows to dogs have undergone similar transformations, yet scientists know relatively little about the genes involved.

Gene drive is so different from other technologies involving genetic modification that it requires a whole new way of thinking about how to evaluate and regulate it, says Jennifer Kuzma, a natural and social scientist at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh who helped organize a February workshop there.

«One of the amazing things about the influenza virus is its ability to grab genes from different pools,» he says.

About 47 percent of the male mice in the extinct lines were infertile because of gene defects that prevented them from making good sperm.

New discoveries about the rules governing how genes encode proteins have revealed nature's sophisticated «programming» for protecting life from catastrophic errors while accelerating evolution

The three - year study included cell culture studies at Rice as well as a detailed analysis of gene - expression profiles of more than 500 patients from the Cancer Genome Atlas and protein - expression profiles from about 200 MD Anderson patients.

In this episode, Scientific American news editor Phil Yam discusses how veterinarians, physicians and multinational food companies need to work together in the global fight against animal - borne infectious diseases; and University of Wisconsin evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll talks about recent research tracking the evolution of yeast genes with specific functions descended from a single, duplicated gene with multiple functions.

As a child, Zhang moved with his family from China to Des Moines, where he worked in a gene therapy lab as a high school student; the experience taught him to think about biology from an engineering point of view.

They found that more than half of the 7,000 genes expressed in the liver vary in activity from one layer to another, a number that is about ten times greater than previous estimates.

Goldstein and colleagues had reported that tardigrades imported about 17 percent of their genes from foreign sources using a type of DNA swapping known as horizontal gene transfer (SN Online: 11/25/15).