Sentences with phrase «at other genes»

The research team is now looking more closely at other genes that are linked to mental disorders.

Looking at other genes known to be involved in hearing, they and other researchers found several others whose proteins were similarly changed in these mammals.

They looked at other genes that interacted with TAK1 kinase including activators and inhibitors of the TAK1 pathway and found that most of them also affected regeneration, but only when worms were infected.

Not exact matches

Genes for deafness, meanwhile, are linked with one or more of the genes associated with at least twenty other ailmGenes for deafness, meanwhile, are linked with one or more of the genes associated with at least twenty other ailmgenes associated with at least twenty other ailments.

Instead of just focusing on human DNA, which in the other studies had yielded limited results, she looked at multiple sets of genes — and not just from humans.

These genes are implicated in highly penetrant genetic disorders for which surgical or other interventions aimed at preventing or significantly reducing morbidity and mortality are available to pathogenic variant carriers.5 Identification of a pathogenic variant in one of these genes could be diagnostic of a medical condition with potential implications for an individual's medical management.

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to.»

Religious people lack this humbleness in believing they share no genes at all with other primates.

One of the key caveats at the time, however, was that the technique required the use of a virus to introduce several genes into the skin (or other) cell, and these would remain in the cell, and so might contaminate the resulting stem cell or create cancer risks.

At some point, our ancestors» genes became more successful when the ones who knew how to reciprocate helping others had a tendency to survive longer.

If Chad and others argue that naturalistic evolution must be dismissed because we don't know exactly what happened with gene mutation and transmission frequencies during particular periods of rapid change, then how can we accept a replacement argument in which we don't even know what happens at all?

The scientists at IRRI insist that there was no other way to get genes for beta - carotene into rice.

Green your baby at the new Andersonville shop Green Genes, a baby store that compiles style and eco-friendliness with its selection of baby clothes, toys, diapers, bottles and other items.

Studies on genes, brain structures and hormones have failed to identify a clear link between, on one hand, differences at birth between the sexes and, on the other, particular behaviour.

Researchers think it acts on another gene called lymphocyte activation gene - III, located at the other end of the same chromosome.

Altered gene imprinting at other times has been associated with developmental disorders and cancer.

Michael Kaplitt, a neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, whose lab develops gene therapies for brain disorders, teamed up with Greengard and other colleagues in the new study.

The bacteria behind gonorrhoea readily acquire genes for resisting drugs and so from 2012, UK patients were given two antibiotics at once — azithromycin pills plus a ceftriaxone injection — so if bacteria acquired resistance to one, they would be killed by the other.

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.

«We're also looking at as many genes as possible in the wild banana and screening them to identify other resistance genes, not only for resistance to TR4 but to other diseases.»

But he hit a brick wall at the National Institutes of Health and elsewhere as he tried to fund research proving the cloned gene worked in other organisms.

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified a mutation in a fat - storage gene that appears to increase the risk for type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders, according to a study published online in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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.

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

Just as the same genes that allow Deinococcus to thrive on the ground may give it the ability to survive at high altitudes, the ice - nucleation gene may originally have given syringae and bacteria like it an advantage other than rainmaking.

What unites the sociologists, physicists, biologists, and other scientists studying networks is the recognition that «whether they're networks of people, computers, genes, [or] neurons, they often obey similar mathematical rules and have similar properties,» says Nicholas Christakis, a professor of sociology and of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

«We've known other people who have looked at genes involved in brain size evolution, tested them out and done the same kinds of experiments we've done and come up dry.»

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.

Mutations in the genes that defend the body against cancer - related viruses and other infections may play a larger role in breast cancer than previously thought, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Using the same technique, it should be possible to add other genes to stem cells to make them more efficient at different tasks.

At this stage, the bacteriophage infected other Salmonella cells, possibly also spreading novel virulence or resistance genes, the authors say.

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.

Base oxidation regulates gene activity In cooperation with colleagues at LMU, as well as researchers based in Berlin, Basel and Utrecht, Carell and his group have now shown, for the first time, that a standard base other than cytosine is also modified in embryonic stem cells of mice.

The initiative, called Safe Genes, comes at a time when so - called «gene drive» systems, which override the standard rules of gene inheritance and natural selection, are raising hopes among some scientists that the technology could alter or suppress populations of disease - carrying insects or other pests in as few as 20 generations.

To investigate further, the team looked at the prestin gene from four toothed whales, two baleen whales, 18 bats and a variety of other animals.

«By switching certain genes on and off, prions could help bacteria survive environmental stresses rendering them less vulnerable to drugs, chemicals and other environmental assaults,» says investigator Ann Hochschild, professor of microbiology and immunobiology at HMS.

The Epstein - Barr virus, which infects some 90 % of Americans, may cause changes in gene expression that dramatically increase a person's chance of getting lupus and six other autoimmune disorders, a new study by Harley, now a rheumatologist at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio, and colleagues shows.

Other directions for future research, Liu said, include looking at the role of CLOCK in more forms of the disease, learning more about exactly how CLOCK affects neural circuits to disrupt adequate inhibition of excitatory neurons, and examining whether any of the genes that CLOCK regulates are especially important in the disorder.

Prof. Khatri and his team studied the way the immune system responds to infection by looking at gene expression — which genes are active and which are not — and whether there are differences in patients with malaria compared to other infectious diseases.

However, other institutions and companies have continued to file patent applications on ESTs and related genes; at present there are applications covering more than 1 million ESTs on file in the PTO.

To find out, the team looked at several hundred human mu opiate genes, lumping together their own studies of several dozen volunteers from pain or opiate addiction clinics with studies from other labs.

Only a decade later was it confirmed to bind to DNA and turn on the expression of other genes aimed at healing cell damage.

«Phenocopy can be caused by other risk - modifying genes or exposure patterns that increase the probability of the specific phenotype manifesting itself,» says the study's first author Hildur Helgadottir, researcher at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Oncology - Pathology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Several of the network genes Volkan and her team identified have counterparts in humans and other vertebrates, which suggests the same basic mechanism could be at work in building the nervous system in other animals too.

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.

There were about 40 genomes of bacteria sequenced at that time, and what you could do was compare your gene of interest to other genomes to see if they contained something similar.

At this point, if you leave the cell alone, it will usually mend CRISPR's cut — but it will occasionally also make a mistake in the repair process, breaking a gene or other parts of the genome.

They argue that anyone whose genome is sequenced for any medical reason should automatically learn whether 57 of their genes put them at risk of certain cancers, potentially fatal heart conditions, and other serious health problems.

Trent and others says that the same mechanism might be at work in genes linked to other cancers, such as breast and prostate cancer, which have been found to contain similar «harmless» sequence variations.

Based on these comments and other issues raised at last week's meeting, the committee is now drawing up a set of policy recommendations on the use of gene editing and its ethical, legal and social implications.