Sentences with phrase «base pairs long»

The Georgetown team's preliminary data demonstrates that they collected sequenced DNA over 68,000 base pairs long from 10,000 year - old microbial samples, meaning that the DNA came from viable cells.

The longest DNA sequence collected from a dead cell is 1,000 base pairs long.

HARs are short — on average just 227 base pairs long, much smaller than a gene.

The complete genome of Anabaena is 7.2 million base pairs long.

In an E. coli bacterium, this ladder is about 4 million base pairs long.

While his first synthetic genome was mainly a copy of an existing genome, Dr. Venter and colleagues this year synthesized a more original bacterial genome, about 500,000 base pairs long.

Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg used a combination of single - molecule imaging and bulk biochemical experiments to show how the RNA - guided Cas9 enzyme is able to locate specific 20 - base - pair target sequences within genomes that are millions to billions of base pairs long.

A single gene can be hundreds or thousands of base pairs long.

«Understanding how Cas9 is able to locate specific 20 - base - pair target sequences within genomes that are millions to billions of base pairs long may enable improvements to gene targeting and genome editing efforts in bacteria and other types of cells,» says Doudna who holds joint appointments with Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division and UC Berkeley's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Department of Chemistry, and is also an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

These enzymes, known as DNA recombinases, recognize two target stretches of DNA, each between 30 to 50 or more base pairs long.

(The longest piece is akin to a novella more than 2.1 million base pairs long, and the shortest is only 1,000 base pairs, the genetic equivalent of a Twitter message.)

The new work is also an incomplete draft, but is more like an anthology of 1,421 genetic short stories, averaging about 73,000 base pairs long.

As reported in tomorrow's issue of Science *, the genome of this laboratory workhorse and common pathogen is 4.6 million base pairs long, making it the largest bacterial genome sequenced to date.

For Haemophilus, we had about 26,000 pieces, all 500 base pairs long, says Venter.

«They can be several thousand base pairs long, whereas in most organisms those regions may be only a couple hundred base pairs long,» he said of the untranslated regions.

These fragments of DNA may be anywhere from 150 to 300 base pairs long.

The team show that amino acids — the building blocks of proteins, which control our cells» functions — are each coded for by specific sections of DNA three base pairs long.

Bidle didn't see lengths like that; the largest segments he found in the ice core specimens were just tens of thousands of base pairs long.

And the first price active self replicating cells would not have been hundreds of thousands of base pairs long.

The genome proved to be more than a million base pairs longer than the TIGR team expected, and to be divided into one large and one small chromosome.

Two versions of this promoter have been found in people; one is 44 base pairs longer than the other.

Not exact matches

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Pairing a lean source of plant - based protein with a slow - digesting, low - glycemic complex carb such as oatmeal is a great way to stay fuller longer and also improve lean muscle mass as well as energy.

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Each foursome will be paired with a renowned chef, star mixologist or notable sports figure at this fun - filled celebrity golf tournament being played at the long - awaited Mountain Shadows course located at the base of Camelback Mountain.

I think he may in the long run convert Gibbs to attacking defensive midfielder to pair him with Coquelin at the Gunners defensive base.

Analyzing fragments over 50,000 base pairs (bp) long and using smaller sample quantities, researchers require an automated system to quantify and qualify their genomic DNA libraries, from initial quality control to final validation.

They found that longer telomeres were significantly associated with increased risk for lung cancer — specifically lung adenocarcinoma, which more than doubled in risk for every 1000 base pair increase in telomere length.

They turned out to be longer than those of other Costa Ricans, with an average difference of about 81 base pairs, equivalent to the benefits of quitting smoking or getting regular physical activity.

Its record - setting girth also holds the longest known viral genome, with DNA that stretches for 1.26 million base pairs, and contains an estimated 1,120 protein - coding genes, 14 percent more than Mimivirus's genome.

Despite the decline in the cost of DNA sequencing, determining the sequence of each chromosome from scratch, a process called de novo genome assembly, remains extremely expensive because chromosomes can be hundreds of millions of base - pairs long.

To show that technique worked, the scientists used DropSynth to make thousands of bacterial genes — each as long as 669 base pairs in length.

The long, chainlike DNA molecule consists of a ladder of base pairs connected to each other through a deoxyribose phosphate group.

Using a single pollinated pine seed, the team assembled the largest genome ever sequenced: 22.18 billion base pairs, more than seven times longer than the human genome.

The importance of CCR5 for HIV - 1 pathogenesis is shown by the fact that individuals who are homozygous for an inactivating 32 base pair deletion in ccr5 (ccr5Δ32) are highly resistant to HIV infection [2], [3], while heterozygotes typically live longer after HIV infection due to reduced CCR5 expression levels [4], [5].

The new model is based on computer simulations of separate collisions between the asteroid Vesta and a pair of 20 - mile - long (32 kilometers) rocks within the last billion years.

LoxP (locus of X (cross)- over in P1) sites are 34 - base - pair long recognition sequences consisting of two 13 - bp long palindromic repeats separated by an 8 - bp long asymmetric core spacer sequence.

The adoption of PCR sidestepped this problem by eliminating the need to clone DNA samples before sequencing, but traditional PCR only amplifies fragments that are at least 90 base pairs in length, longer than the highly degraded fragments found in specimens thousands of years old.

Although nearest - neighbour exchange coupling of two spins has been demonstrated, the interaction of spins via microwave - frequency photons could enable long - distance spin — spin coupling and connections between arbitrary pairs of qubits («all - to - all» connectivity) in a spin - based quantum processor.

The recently launched Gemcode system adds a new dimension to short - read DNA sequencing, by enabling the ordering of millions of barcoded short sequence reads of 150 base pairs into long continuous DNA molecules of hundreds of thousands of base pairs in size.

The polyT repeat (rs10524523) genotypes were placed into categories modeled after those reported by Roses et al12: short (246 - 267 base pair [bp]-RRB-, long (268 - 279 bp), and very long (280 - 289 bp)(Supplemental Figure 2; http://neuroscienceresearch.wustl.edu/Pages/cruchaga2011.aspx).

Unlike other methods, which read chunks of DNA perhaps a hundred or so base pairs in length, the MinION can read sequences as long as 882,000 base pairs in length using the nanopore technology.

The team estimates the O. bimaculoides genome is 2.7 billion base - pairs in size, with numerous long stretches of repeated sequences.

Long - read sequencing technologies such as Pacific Biosciences and Oxford Nanopore MinION are capable of producing long sequencing reads with average fragment lengths of over 10,000 base - pairs and maximum lengths reaching 100,000 base - paLong - read sequencing technologies such as Pacific Biosciences and Oxford Nanopore MinION are capable of producing long sequencing reads with average fragment lengths of over 10,000 base - pairs and maximum lengths reaching 100,000 base - palong sequencing reads with average fragment lengths of over 10,000 base - pairs and maximum lengths reaching 100,000 base - pairs.

Or even a home base, a pose so comfortable and worn out after we have practiced if for so long, it is like putting on our favorite pair of shoes.

Pairing a lean source of plant - based protein with a slow - digesting, low - glycemic complex carb such as oatmeal is a great way to stay fuller longer and also improve lean muscle mass as well as energy.

A diet based on a single plant item will not be adequate, but we no longer worry about pairing proteins (such as beans with rice) at a single meal.

This gorgeous London - based blogger wore a pair of black tights to cover her mile - long legs and capped off the look with a leather baseball cap, a clutch and a pair of platform sandals.

More specifically, she believes that, because any pairings that result from these quick decisions will be based on relatively simple criteria, having lots of dating options is `' a strategy [which] may be better suited for daters who are looking for casual sex as opposed to a long - term partner.»

Match - based sites — eHarmony especially — make strong claims that their matching system helps the online dating process by pairing you with those who are compatible with you, thus increasing your odds of finding a good long - term match.