Sentences with phrase «at genes controlling»

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However, a study performed at Edinburgh University found that much of our predisposition toward determination, sociability, self - control, and sense of purpose is in our genes.

What all these have in common is that, without any central control, individual units (genes, cells neurons or workers) respond to simple, local information, in ways that allow the whole system (cells, brains, organisms or colonies) to function: the appropriate number of units performs each activity at the appropriate time.

«We actually do have control over our genes, which can be exciting and daunting at the same time.

The reliability and stability of these methods were described by Wu et al. 27 Illumina tag sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene V4 - V5 hypervariable region was performed at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, using established methods.28, 29 Details of sequencing methods, quality control and filtering, and statistical modeling are presented in the eAppendix in the Supplement.

The feeding tube of the dying embryos was not forming properly, so researchers at first speculated that the gene controlled tube development.

At least 20 different genes control lycopene production.

To receive funding from Safe Genes, teams focused on gene - drive technology must work on controls plus at least one of the program's other focus areas — remediation or inhibitors.

Psychiatrist Ming Tsuang and his colleagues at Boston University figured that if genes help control what people feel when they smoke pot, then genetically identical twins should experience a similar kind of high or low when they use the drug.

At the same time, Asahina stresses, finding a gene that influences aggression does not mean that aggression is controlled only by genes and always genetically programmed.

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

Kevin Esvelt, head of the Sculpting Evolution lab at MIT Media Lab, which is applying for Safe Genes funding in collaboration with eight other research groups, predicts that eventually, perhaps around 15 years from now, an accident will allow a drive with potential to spread globally to escape laboratory controls.

However, last August a team headed by plant ecologist Allison Snow at Ohio State University demonstrated that this same gene might produce some very tough weeds: She found that wild sunflowers crossed with Bt sunflowers produced offspring that suffered significantly less insect - related damage and produced 50 percent more seeds than control plants without the gene.

«I'm very relieved,» says Andrea Crisanti, a molecular parasitologist at Imperial College London, who is part of an effort that seeks to use gene drives to control malaria.

The team also found that two clusters of these genes control different kinds of aggression: one directed at strangers and strange dogs, and the other directed at the owner and other dogs in the household.

Gene drives are just the latest attempt at biological control systems.

The researchers also looked at the expression of a gene involved in the control of wing development, and found similarity between the lab - induced supersoldiers and the natural ones.

Since beginning a lab dedicated to understanding cancer metastasis at Rockefeller six years ago, Associate Professor Sohail Tavazoie has found that microRNAs — tiny strands of RNA that function as switches to inactivate specific genes — play an important role in controlling genes linked to metastasis.

«Our study provides compelling evidence that the fetus regulates the timing of its birth, and that this control occurs after these two gene regulatory proteins − SRC - 1 and SRC - 2 − increase the production of surfactant components, surfactant protein A and platelet activating factor,» said senior author Dr. Carole Mendelson, Professor of Biochemistry, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at UT Southwestern.

Researchers working in the Development and Growth Control Lab at IRB Barcelona reveal that the Dpp gene (BMP in humans) plays a double role in the structural organisation and growth of the wings of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.

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.

Now, using computer simulations, James Carothers and his colleagues at JBEI have sped up the RNA design phase, creating computer tools that will help researchers design molecules to precisely control gene expression in bacteria to optimize fuel production.

Gene Robinson, a geneticist at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, says that the paper «opens a new line of study on the role of epigenetics in controlling reproductive conflict» in bumblebees.

«As a result of the previous study, we reported that SUMO is probably important for controlling expression of active genes because we found it on every gene we looked at, but only when they were turned on,» notes Rosonina.

Using an innovative crystallization technique for studying three - dimensional structures of gene transcription machinery, an international team of researchers, led by scientists at Penn State, has revealed new insights into the long debated action of the «magic spot» — a molecule that controls gene expression in Eschericahia coli and many other bacteria when the bacteria are stressed.

First, looking at a study of 185 cases of childhood epilepsy, Wittkowski's team found that mutations in genes that control axonal guidance and calcium signaling — both of which are important early in the developing brain when neurons are forming the appropriate connections — led to increased chances of having the disorder.

«Genes previously linked to schizophrenia seem to be dependent on the controlled release of dopamine at specific locations in the brain.

To further identify the role of TAZ, the research team studied breast tissue at different stages of development using two groups of mice: a control group with the TAZ gene and an experimental group of knock - out mice with the TAZ gene deleted.

The ability to retain salt — controlled in part by a gene called CYP3A5 — varies by latitude, according to geneticists at the University of Chicago.

Based on previous work, the researchers had reason to think it was controlled by transcription factors — proteins that control the expression of certain genes by binding to DNA at specific locations to induce (or block) the transcription of information from DNA to RNA.

Now, Darnell's team reports that FMRP sits at the top of a protein manufacturing plant - actually supervising the production of proteins that control genes.

The nanotechnology approach that is being tested for inhibitor control could also improve the haemophilia treatment that is now at the cutting edge of clinical research: gene therapy.

Scientists of the Transfaculty Research Platform «Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences» (MCN) at the University of Basel and the Psychiatric University Clinics have now described a network of genes that controls fundamental properties of neurons and is related to working memory, brain activity and schizophrenia.

Each cell of our body is the result of an orchestra of sophisticated mechanisms that control which genes are and are not expressed at any given time.

Scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center and New York University have demonstrated that a specialized DNA - binding protein called CTCF is essential for the precise expression of genes that control the body plan of a developing embryo.

Believing that science and medicine are inextricably linked, he decided to do a PhD at the MRC Mill Hill laboratories and investigated the role of regulatory elements in controlling gene expression, graduating in 1996.

Jones, 62, is an expert in transcription elongation, a process that controls the expression of HIV and cancer genes; she has been at the Salk since 1986.

The gene that controls shell thickness, creatively named SHELL, was identified in 2013 by researchers at Orion, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), a government research institute based near Kuala Lumpur.

«At the LMB, you can approach big questions, like how is gene expression controlled?»

Thus, this cDNA derives from a gene (oct - 2) that specifies an octamer binding protein expressed preferentially in B lymphocytes, proving that, for at least one gene, a cell - specific transcription factor exists and its amount is controlled through messenger RNA availability.

P. falciparum is a top target of gene sequencers because it has thwarted all attempts at control.

And Dr. Ludovic Orlando from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen concludes: «Perhaps even more exciting as it represents the hallmark of animal domestication, we identify genes controlling animal behavior and the response to fear.

Dr Kat Arney, science communication manager at Cancer Research UK, said: «Only a tiny fraction of our DNA contains actual genes, and we know that at least some of the bits in between — often dismissed as «junk» — play important roles in controlling how genes get switched on and off at the right time and in the right place.

Another important pathway, related to the p53 gene (a protector of the genome), is also relevant when we looked at gene expression in the skin of acne twins compared to twin controls.»

In C. amylolentus, dozens of genes at two different locations on the chromosomes control what's called a tetrapolar, or four - part, mating system.

At the cellular level, the clock is controlled by a complex network of genes and proteins that switch each other on and off based on cues from their environment.

Peter Meyer, a molecular biologist at the University of Leeds, and his colleagues identified a gene they labeled Sho (for shooting), which controls production of cytokinins, hormones that delay aging in plants.

«We have to build a large enough study to be able to look at both genes and environment together,» says Newschaffer, who is a principal investigator on a study by the Centers for Disease Control that will look at 2,700 children over the next five years.

«Clock genes» control our circadian rhythms, and the easiest place to extract evidence of their activity is from hair follicles, according to researchers at Japan's Yamaguchi University.

Increasingly local adaptation to climate is being studied at the molecular level by identifying which genes control climate adaptation and how these vary between individuals.

Associate Professor Amanda Sainsbury - Salis expressed surprise at the impact of the Y6 gene deletion on mice, commenting «I find it amazing that one gene, which is expressed in the small part of the brain that controls the body clock, has such a profound impact on how much fat is stored on the body, and how much lean tissue is maintained.»