Sentences with phrase «activate key genes»

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a high - throughput technique that can determine if a chemical has the potential to activate key genes in seconds rather than the typical 24 hours or more.

A new technique can determine if a chemical has the potential to activate key genes in seconds rather than the typical 24 hours or more.

Kriegstein notes that the hunt will likely commence for small molecules capable of activating the key genes.

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Key proteins, produced and regulated by these important genes, activated a cascade of diverse, tissue - specific signals that led to regenerative organ growth.

This caused two key genes normally activated solely on the left side of the body to be expressed on the right side, the team reports in the 4 July issue of Nature.

The gene plays a key role in cellular proliferation and is activated in 90 % of all human pancreatic tumors.

But the message receiver can turn on the key genes and make the colors light up by pressing the nitrocellulose paper into an agar plate containing a chemical trigger that activates expression of the fluorescent proteins.

Some researchers have argued that endogenised retroviruses may be key to how species diverge from each other, by activating different body plans and gene networks that may give one individual an edge over other members of the species.

Nagahashi M, Takabe K, Liu R, Wang Y, Hait NC, Wang X, Allegood JC, Yamada A, Aoyagi T, Liang J, Pandak WM, Cooper P, Spiegel S, Hylemon PB, and Zhou H. Conjugated Bile Acid Activated S1P Receptor 2 Is a Key Regulator of Sphingosine Kinase 2 and Hepatic Gene Expression.

In 1996, for instance, Semenza demonstrated that HIF - 1 activates the gene for a key participant in blood - vessel formation, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF).

Curcumin activates PPAR (peroxisome proliferator - activator receptor) which is a group of key nuclear proteins that regulate gene expression and modulate sugar uptake and utilization in the bloodstream.

But they may also activate the gene atrogin - 1 gene, which plays a key role in muscle atrophy.