Sentences with phrase «by geneticists»

While Séralini's finding was heralded by anti-GMO activists as an «I told you so,» the paper was promptly, harshly, and widely criticized by geneticists and the general scientific community, many of whom lobbied the journal directly to address the shortcomings in the paper.

The word «yellow» is used by geneticists far more than those other descriptions.

A probable pre-Clovis age for Monte Verde in Chile and reports by geneticists and linguists that human populations may have migrated to the Americas as early as 35 kya seem to demand a rethinking of Pleistocene peopling models.»

For instance, imagine if the genetic variants mentioned earlier, responsible for encouraging the development of larger brains, were identified by geneticists as potentially harmful mutations and promptly eliminated from the gene pool.

The most popular model used by geneticists for the last 35 years to detect the footprints of human evolution may overlook more common subtle changes, a new international study finds.

Genome - wide association studies, or GWAS, are a popular method used by geneticists to find genetic variants associated with elevated risk for a particular disease.

stem used by geneticists to study gene function.

The theory that all humans are descended from a recent African ancestor was promoted by geneticists who study living populations.The fossil record provides independent support for this model

Although this technique is not new and has been used by geneticists for quite some time, no general protocol has been previously published.

To find the gene responsible for the Pingelapese colorblindness, a team led by geneticists Olof Sundin and Irene Hussels Maumenee of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine tested DNA from 32 islanders, 16 of whom had the disorder.

The fat, eyeless cavefish harbor the same genetic mutation as people with an inherited form of severe diabetes and experience diabetes - like blood - sugar surges and crashes after eating, yet they are perfectly healthy, according to a study in Nature led by geneticists at Harvard Medical School.

Revive & Restore expects to see much more progress in the coming decade given the recent focus on the topic by geneticists, conservation biologists and environmentalists.

Published for all to see in this week's Science, Kay's approach is being hailed as a milestone in the science of «rhythm genetics», the push by geneticists to understand the mysterious daily, or «circadian», clocks that tick inside most living things.

The work, now posted on the bioRxiv preprint server, was done by a large team led by geneticists David Reich and Iosif Lazaridis of Harvard Medical School in Boston and Wolfgang Haak of the University of Adelaide in Australia.

The first high quality draft of the mouse genome has been greeted by geneticists as a «Rosetta stone» that will help unravel the secrets of our own genes.

The authors, led by geneticists Andrés Ruiz - Linares of Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and Garrett Hellenthal of University College London, trace a significant portion of this ancestry to conversos, or Jews who converted to Christianity in 1492, when Spain expelled those who refused to do so.

A collaborative team led by geneticists from Trinity College Dublin compared the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of 15 historical taxidermy specimens from Britain and Ireland and nine modern samples taken from Irish dairy and feral populations.

But in 1999 a group led by geneticists at the University of Sydney in Australia discovered that methylation of the fur color genes persists in the female germ line, allowing it to be passed down to offspring like a change in the DNA.

Most of the rechristened genes were identified by geneticists studying the fruit fly; when equivalent genes were later found in the human genome, researchers simply continued using the name of the fruit fly gene to avoid confusion.

The latest work, led by geneticists Iñigo Olalde and David Reich at Harvard Medical School, involved 103 researchers at dozens of institutions, including Bronze Age archaeologists.

The gene plaguing her family was identified by geneticists Mark Skolnick and Mary - Claire King in 1994 after an intense search.

It is continually proven by geneticists in their work and in medical research and in fossil recovery and geological findings, etc, etc..

This date was forced on anthropoligists studying fossils by the geneticists whose work beginning in the 90's completely threw all the previous work into disarray.

The genome prize was conceived by geneticist J. Craig Venter, a kindred spirit who left the National Institutes of Health (NIH), frustrated by its bureaucracy, and then set up a company to challenge it in a race to decode the genome.

«Junk DNA» was introduced in 1972 by geneticist Susumu Ohno who noted that the mutational load from harmful mutations placed an upper limit on the number of functional loci that could be expected given a typical mutation rate.

A team led by geneticist Steven McCarroll of the Broad Institute, based in Cambridge, Mass., combed through genetic information from about 29,000 schizophrenia cases, 36,000 controls and 700 brain samples from deceased patients.

This idea, launched in the 1960s by geneticist Hermann Muller, has remained among evolutionary biologists» pet theories ever since.

There were two extended reviews in the leading scientific weekly Nature, one by geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, the other by the plant cytologist Irene Manton.

Researchers led by geneticist Kathryn North of the Institute for Neuromuscular Research in Sydney, Australia, decided to investigate how ACTN3 affects muscle activity so dramatically.

And recent research by geneticist Todd Vision and informatics researcher Heather Piwowar shows that publications accompanied by open datasets are cited more frequently, which is better for science and scientists.

This genetic history has come to light with a little fishing — a technique known as DNA fishing, developed in part by geneticist Johannes Krause of the University of Tübingen in Germany.

Ancient DNA from foragers and farmers in eastern, central and western Europe indicates that they increasingly mated with each other from around 8,000 to nearly 4,000 years ago, a team led by geneticist Mark Lipson of Harvard Medical School in Boston reports online November 8 in Nature.

She needed a farm to host an audacious experiment dreamed up by geneticist Dmitry Belyaev: to create a domestic animal as docile as a dog from aggressive, wily silver foxes.

In separate studies reported in today's issue of Nature, a team led by geneticist Juan Carlos Ispisúa Belmonte at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, and another led by geneticist Cliff Tabin at Harvard Medical School found a very similar gene in chicks, named Radical fringe (R - fng), that is active on one side of a budding chick wing.

The genome prize was conceived by geneticist J. Craig Venter, a kindred spirit who left the National Institutes of Health (NIH), frustrated by its bureaucracy, and then set up a company to challenge it in a race to decode the genome.

Others, like futurist and tech guru Esther Dyson, are having parts of their genomes sequenced in a project led by geneticist George Church of Harvard University and MIT.

Researchers thought they were hot on the trail of «gay genes» in 1993, when a team led by geneticist Dean Hamer of the National Cancer Institute reported in Science that one or more genes for homosexuality had to reside on Xq28, a large region on the X chromosome.

In 2002, a team led by geneticist John Doebley of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, found the smoking gun.

A team led by geneticist Anne Ferguson - Smith of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and diabetes researcher Mary - Elizabeth Patti of Harvard Medical School has now explored this idea by studying the DNA of two generations of mice descended from an undernourished mother.

At the heart of the plan is the # 650 million ($ 1 billion) Francis Crick Institute, now under construction in London and led by geneticist Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society.

Researchers led by Kári Stefánsson, a geneticist with deCODE Genetics in Reykjavik, Iceland, identified 27 such regions, and the other two groups, led by geneticist Timothy Frayling at Peninsula Medical School in Exeter in the U.K., and Joel Hirschhorn, a geneticist at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, spotted 20 and 10 regions, respectively.

For example, previous research by geneticist Stephen Oliver of the University of Manchester, U.K., and colleagues suggested that chromosomal flip - flopping in yeast was not the primary means of speciation, since past rearrangements did not appear to correspond with the branching off of new species.

Two studies, one led by geneticist Harry Ostrer of the New York University School of Medicine, and the other by geneticist Doron Behar of the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel, traced the three main Diaspora groups — Ashkenazim, Sephardim from Spain and Portugal, and Oriental Jews from the Middle East — to people who all lived in the Middle East about 2000 years ago.

A particular type of stem cell found in muscle can give rise to new muscle tissue, so a team led by geneticist Luis Garcia of Généthon, a nonprofit biotechnology firm in Évry, France, investigated whether these cells could be used to reverse the dystrophin problems.

Price said he was interested in a proposal, described by geneticist Tamara Caspary, to make it easier for scientists to apply for grants by postponing some of the administrative hurdles until the grant is actually awarded.

Emory's Viral Vector Core was started when eminent neuroscientist Kerry Ressler was at Emory and is now overseen by geneticist Peng Jin.

Discovered in 1938 by geneticist Hermann J. Müller, telomeres (Greek for «end part») are essentially protective caps composed of short DNA sequences on the tips of chromosomes.

Sam Neill and Laura Dern star as archaeologists hired to check out a new theme park designed by geneticist (Richard Attenborough).

I read a nonfiction book some years ago by a geneticist who pointed out that there are many stops along the line that determines gender.

Research conducted by geneticist Robert Wayne has shown that DNA of domesticated dogs and wolves differs by only 1 %.