Sentences with phrase «born with a gene»

It's useful to keep in mind that no one is born with a gene for automatically knowing how to care for an infant!

We may love our kids totally and unconditionally, but we aren't born with a gene that gives us an instinctual knowledge of how to solve daily childrearing problems.

We are all born with our genes, whether «good» ones or «bad» ones.

Some people are born with a gene variant that results in a deficiency of alpha - 1 antitrypsin.

Because of these nearly ubiquitous toxic exposures, however, over the past decades many babies have been born with genes scarred from exposure to inflammatory chemicals during key periods of replication.

You think you're just born with genes and stuck with them?

Even if you weren't born with the genes for awesome arms, proper training and nutrition can fill in the gaps left by mom and dad's sorry DNA.

Though born with the gene for loving musicals, I lack the DNA sequence that allows for ABBA appreciation.

If your pet is born with the genes that make it susceptible to hip dysplasia, following my advice regarding feeding, nutrition and exercise should be helpful in preventing, controlling or minimizing the effects of this debilitating disease.

Not exact matches

He rejects the idea that people are either born with the entrepreneurship gene or they're not, asserting that, like any other skill, entrepreneurship can be taught.

While only a few people seem to be born with the right genes, I'm convinced that it is also a skill that can be learned and even institutionalized.

That doesn't change the fact that an animal born with an abnormality which makes it more complex but also better suited to survive would live to pass on that gene to it's children and slowly to the entire species.

Anything with a genetic basis that increases the survival of children bearing your genes will be selected for.

A few that pop to mind are the Coconino Sandstone, the meandering / lateral channels in the Grand Canyon, the progressive order of the fossil record (complete with a pre-hominid through hominid progression), forms which bear features bridging the specially - created kinds (i.e. fish with tetrapod features, reptiles with mammalian features, reptiles with avian features, etc), the presence of anomalous morphological / genetic features (e.g. the recurrent laryngeal nerve, male nip - ples, the presence of a defunct gene for egg - yolk production in our own placental mammal genomes), etc, etc..

What I'm really going to do is to rid the gene pool of its 10,000 worst contributors, in an effort to speed up the evolution of the human race (yes: I made the system automatic, so that I didn't have to bother diddling with it at every moment: Darwin was right, but the process turned out slower than I expected, and I got bored, hence the urge to speed things up a tad).

I'm not gay, nor lesbian, so I can only imagine what it would be like for those who are born with wrong genes, body, etc., to have to live in a world so full of hatred for something they have no control over.

The advent of rice varieties bearing genes with resistance to the disease has changed the perception about the disease: the incorporation of host - plant resistance genes in rice varieties, their adoption and deployment in the world's main rice - producing environments is probably one of the most significant evidences of the role of plant pathology in agricultural development.

With 50,000 thoroughbreds born each year in the U.S. — and with a yearling sales market that has fallen in recent years — buyers consider more than just a mare's geWith 50,000 thoroughbreds born each year in the U.S. — and with a yearling sales market that has fallen in recent years — buyers consider more than just a mare's gewith a yearling sales market that has fallen in recent years — buyers consider more than just a mare's genes.

Andrew looks unselfish for giving up the game - winning shot attempt to his twin brother, and Aaron clearly was born with a rare clutch gene.

Whether or not a child is born with this special gene, you can take advantage of the first few years of your baby's life, which experts believe is an optimal period for learning.

However, while some children may be born with the special gene to be a super achiever, many others have average intelligence.

And 1 in 13 African American infants are born with the sickle cell trait, meaning they carry the sickle cell gene, although they don't have SCD.

My mother always said I was born with the «happy gene» therefore, happy is something I just am.

There's also a 25 percent chance the child will have two genes for achondroplasia, which often results in death shortly after birth, but there's also a 50 percent chance the child will be born with dwarfism.

This extremely rare issue, in which a baby is born with a complete lack of lactase, is inherited through a gene from both mother and father.

This 30 - minute version is accompanied by Gene Declercq's Birth By The Numbers and two interviews with celebrity parents featured in More Business of Being Born.

Health matters: A recent study found that women with good nutrition are more likely to have babies born with a cancer - suppressing gene variant

No babies have been born with changes made by CRISPR / Cas9 or any other gene - editing technology.

One in 40 people carry the defective gene for spinal muscular atrophy, and as many as one in 6,000 babies in the world across all ethnic groups is born with the disorder.

People who inherit a mutated version of the ATF6 gene are born with a malformed or missing fovea, the eye region responsible for sharp, detailed vision.

About one in 8,000 children is born with some form of SMA in which mutations in both copies of the gene that code for the survival motor neuron (SMN) protein cripples its production.

For instance, people who have low cholesterol their entire lives — such as those born with a mutation in a gene called PCSK9 — suffer far fewer heart attacks than people who lower their cholesterol only later in life.

Because they were clearly biological themselves and could be spread from one victim to another with obvious biological effects, viruses were then thought to be the simplest of all living, gene - bearing life - forms.

Using a novel form of gene therapy, scientists from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital have managed to restore partial hearing and balance in mice born with a genetic condition that affects both.

Mice born with extra copies of a human gene develop learning defects that may resemble those in Down syndrome.

The race was on, with the two teams probing for candidate genes in that region to determine which bore the APECED mutations.

Finn Miller, a toddler born with Beckwith - Wiedemann syndrome, due to abnormal «imprinting» of genes, plays at home with his mother and older brother.

In other words, introducing it into a wild population of mosquitoes would achieve the same result as placing a group of brown - eyed humans into a blue - eyed population: gradually, fewer children would be born with the recessive, blue - eyed gene.

2009: A resounding success brings gene therapy back into the limelight: Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire announce that 12 patients with a degenerative disorder leading to total blindness were treated with viruses bearing a replacement gene, and all regain some vision.

They then injected the gene - bearing AAV1 into the inner ear, with these findings:

Women with the inherited form appear to be born with mutations in the gene, whereas in those with sporadic cancer the mutations must arise later in life.

When ants are born with two of the same sex determination gene sets, they become sterile diploid males, even if they should develop as females.

Although she was born with sickle - cell genes, she no longer has sickle - cell disease.

In this episode, Scientific American news editor Phil Yam discusses how veterinarians, physicians and multinational food companies need to work together in the global fight against animal - borne infectious diseases; and University of Wisconsin evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll talks about recent research tracking the evolution of yeast genes with specific functions descended from a single, duplicated gene with multiple functions.

People born with mutated RPE65 genes suffer from severe vision problems, including night blindness.

Each of our brain cells contains the same set of genes we were born with and uses those genes to build proteins and other molecules throughout its life.

In the US, more than 1000 children with the disease are born each year, and some 12 million people (about 1 in 20 Caucasians) are carriers of the faulty gene.

«Although you can not change the genes you are born with, doctors can use this information to start screening for kidney disease earlier and to aggressively treat any other risk factors you may have such as diabetes or high blood pressure,» said Dr. Naik.

«These people are born with a broken gene and it sets them up for leukemia,» says Chris Porter, MD, investigator at the CU Cancer Center and associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the CU School of Medicine.

In brown bears, the sequence of this gene varies from one bear to another, but all the polar bears surveyed have an identical version, with the exact same genetic code at nine variable spots in the gene, about half of which should change the function of the APOB protein.