Sentences with phrase «at gene level»

Testosterone can be raised by zinc because zinc is so important for testosterone to bind at the gene level.

The scientific community has taken advantage of its fundamental similarity to humans at the genetic level (> 95 % at the gene level), similar physiology and anatomy, its relative low cost compared to other mammals, and nearly 100 years of genetic study.

Drug encapsulating via a combination of layer - by - layer technique and sol - gel chemistry allows beating swine flu at the gene level.

«Novel drug delivery beats swine flu at gene level.»

An atlas of the human brain should be an even more powerful tool in identifying what goes wrong at the gene level in cancer and other diseases, he says.

As such, the genes that are passed on are those whose consequences serve their own interests at gene level — that is, to continue being replicated — and...

Eran Andrechek, a physiology professor in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University, has discovered that many of the various models used in breast cancer research can replicate several characteristics of the human disease, especially at the gene level.

Using the genomic technologies he's learned at the IGB, Woolbright hopes to develop a research program that investigates climate - driven changes in species interactions at the gene level.

At the gene level, traditional and adapted seeds and breeds are preferred for their greater resistance to diseases and their resilience to climatic stress.

This means that none of our food products have been altered at the gene level of the plant.

Not exact matches

The question is not if but when gene editing will be an option to manage a condition at the cellular level.

There are a wide range of reproductive strategies resulting from the competing interests at various levels of selection, that is, the level of individual genes / gene clusters, the level of the individual and the level of the population / species.

Even Richard Dawkins posits a basic level of meaningful unity within matter at the level of the gene.

Evolution occurs at the microscopic level by changes in genes as a result of the survival of the most adapted organisms for the environment in which they live.

I strongly disagree with Prof. Hughes» claim that because biologists «study real genes at the DNA level,» there is no more interest in «make «believe «genes.

It is a term used by people grasping at straws to continue dismissing evolution even as the evidence builds faster than ever at the gene sequencing level (ie, most of you agree that drug resistant bacteria have evolved but the term MACRO evolution is misused intentionally so you could continue to dismiss science to save faith; pun intended).

Bo Clark, perhaps the finest shooting guard in college ball at any level, is the son of the Knights» head coach, Gene (Torchy) Clark.

While many factors can influence hyperactivity in children, including genes and environment, «there is good evidence that artificial food colors can also increase levels of hyperactivity,» said Jim Stevenson, the study's lead author and professor emeritus in the school of psychology at the University of Southampton.

He looked closer at a specific gene known to regulate levels of the brain neurotransmitter serotonin — a lack of which is found in people with depression.

In addition, they also used exome sequencing and RNAseq — sequencing directly targeted to the SHIP1 gene — to examine the structure of the SHIP1 gene at both the DNA and the RNA level.

«We wanted to find out if obesity - related genes and activity level have an interactive effect on obesity risk — if there is a «double whammy» effect of being both at genetic risk and physically inactive, beyond the additive effect of these factors,» said Dr. Wood.

Four genes were expressed at significantly higher levels in the blood of people who had been suicidal.

CCG will be «squeezing» more clinically meaningful information out of cancer genomics, to understand at the molecular level how genes and mutations drive cancer and determine response to treatment.

At the molecular level, RNA can bind DNA to deactivate gene segments, bind other RNA or it can bind proteins, activating or deactivating them.

DNA methylation is a mechanism cells use to control gene expression at the epigenetic level.

But look much closer, at a genetic level, and you will find that many of the genes seen in these flies are also present — and play similar roles — in humans.

Now, new research suggests changes at the epigenetic level — specifically alterations in proteins that affect gene expression, rather than genetic mutations — could be driving childhood ependymomas.

Rare mutations that shut down a single gene are linked to lower cholesterol levels and a 50 percent reduction in the risk of heart attack, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the Broad Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, and other institutions.

To link, at a molecular level, a gene variant with biochemical changes and clinical symptoms related to a heritable psychiatric disorder, as in this present study, is therefore something of a breakthrough.

And researchers are already working on identifying the genes unique to modern humans — at the most basic level, what unites and defines our species.

Much higher levels of gene activity were triggered in these experiments than scientists have achieved before, says Michael Hemann, a cancer biologist at MIT.

As the researchers showed, already at the age of six weeks the Igfbp2 gene exhibited higher levels of methylation, i.e. stronger epigenetic modification, and at the same time the IGFBP2 synthesis in the liver was significantly reduced.

In the new work, Evans» group focused on estrogen - related receptor gamma (ERRγ), a gene that is active at high levels in brown fat cells.

The SMA model pig was created using a gene therapy approach by knocking down the levels of pig SMN, followed by treatment with human SMN at early and late time points.

Using the new data, Laura Carrel, a geneticist at Pennsylvania State College of Medicine in Hershey, and Huntington Willard, a geneticist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, discovered that 15 percent of the genes on the inactivated X chromosome are actually not silenced — and most are likely to be expressed at higher levels overall in women than men.

Steve: And there's one of the researchers you quote in the article talks about, there may be genes that are not directly responsible for some aspect of brain function even at a biochemical cascade level; there might be a gene that is responsible for the width of the birth canal and that that could be associated with ultimately with intelligence.

«We have identified some 40 rare diseases where this mechanism can be produced at the level of similar trios of genes,» says Dr. Gueant.

Using genes from a snapdragon flower, a group led by Cathie Martin at the John Innes Centre in the UK created a tomato with unprecedented levels of anthocyanins, a kind of antioxidant that has been linked to reduced incidence of cancers.

At Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., Hall, a geneticist, teamed up with molecular biologist Rosbash to identify the period gene at the molecular level in 198At Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., Hall, a geneticist, teamed up with molecular biologist Rosbash to identify the period gene at the molecular level in 198at the molecular level in 1984.

Co-senior author Professor Jennifer Nichols at the Wellcome Trust - Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute, said: «Our data allow us to study gene activity in individual cells to an unprecedented level of precision.

Research coordinated by Osaka University has now shown that the nuclear protein complex cohesin must be expressed at sufficient levels in the early mouse brain to control gene regulation and allow development of healthy neuronal networks and behavioral characteristics.

«One of the ways SUMO does this is by promoting the binding of Tup1 to active genes, which then acts to reduce their expression to appropriate levels,» explains Rosonina, in the Faculty of Science at York U.

If it does, they will be able to use the animals to study how those delay discounting - related genes lead to those behaviors, at a molecular level.

In the dominant deafness model, gene therapy with a related gene, TMC2, was successful at the cellular and brain level, and partially successful at restoring actual hearing in the startle test.

These subtypes of asthma can be identified by knowing which genes are expressed at higher and lower levels in patients» airways.

RNA sequencing of both single and clustered CTCs from breast cancer patients identified several genes expressed at elevated levels in CTC clusters, one of which — a protein called plakoglobin — also was overexpressed in the primary tumors of patients with reduced survival.

«Usually we think about selfish genes at the level of natural selection and selection of the fittest,» Lampson said.

The team also looked at the levels of the TAZ gene in tumors from women with either luminal or basal tumors.

Ed Cook, a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago Medical Center, reasoned that a gene that regulates serotonin levels might be involved in autism.

To understand how cancer cells could have an established tolerance, Santagata and Peter Tsvetkov, a postdoctoral researcher in the Lindquist lab, analyzed the genes that allow cells to survive exposure to proteasome inhibitors at toxic levels.