Sentences with phrase «because gene silencing»

Determined to investigate, Voinnet specialized in plant molecular biology and, because gene silencing had also been reported in plants made resistant to viruses, plant pathology.

Not exact matches

The gene is silenced because it is on the part of their chromosome they inherited from their mother, and for mysterious reasons our cells use the father's copy of this gene.

They want as much as $ 82 million paid to them — money they say they've lost in licenses and royalties on Hannon's discoveries in gene silencing and on a start - up company that couldn't launch because the discoveries were denied patents.

We already eat gene - silencing RNAs, because many organisms produce them in their cells.

Imprinting and silencing those genes can benefit mothers, because they can blunt the demand.

Because this approach silences genes but does not introduce heritable changes into the genome, it may not be regulated as a GM product.

«We have found that the same genes responsible for tamoxifen resistance in our animals are also turned off in human breast cancer cells that do not respond to the drug,» she says «Because these genes were epigenetically silenced — meaning they were not irreversibly altered, just switched off — it was possible to turn them back on.

That's a surprisingly difficult thing to do, because the place where the mutant gene is different isn't necessarily the best place for a silencing drug to stick.

This regression is possible because we retain the genes of our primitive evolutionary ancestors, and silencing of only a few hundred genes may cause a human cell to resemble, genetically, bacteria or fungi.