Sentences with phrase «by sequencing studies»

All seven were located in or near complement genes (that's «complement» as in the innate immune system complex), which had been implicated in AMD by sequencing studies over the past couple of years.

Not exact matches

Phase I funding — which allows up to $ 250,000 for an academic idea, such as decoding the genetic sequence of a protein or studying targeted drug delivery by using magnetic nanoparticles — is available from federal funding and foundations.

«We heard from many students that they wanted help sequencing together courses in order to form more substantive programs of study than can be represented by a single course.

June 19, 2013 — A Cornell University study offers further proof that the divergence of humans from chimpanzees some 4 million to 6 million years ago was profoundly influenced by mutations to DNA sequences that play roles in turning genes on and off.

Tangible proof can be found by studying vestigial features, ebryonic development, biogeography, DNA sequencing, pseudogenes, endogenous retroviruses, labratory direct examination of natural selection in action in E-Coli bacteria, lactose intolerance in humans, the peppered moth's colour change in reaction to industrial pollution, radiotrophic fungi at Chernobyl... all of these things add to the modern evolutionary synthesis.

According to The Pigeon, the authoritative study by Wendell M. Levi, a South Carolina fancier, a good roller rolls in unbroken sequence while airborne.

The allocation sequence was generated by the statistical adviser of the study with random permuted blocks with a block size of 8.

A 2010 study led by Hood in collaboration with the University of Washington and the University of Utah sequenced the entire genomes of four family members.

Data published by the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium indicate that somewhere between 113 and 223 genes present in bacteria and in the human genome are absent in well - studied organisms — such as the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans — that lie in between those two evolutionary extremes.

By sequencing the entire genome of 30 African honeybees, the research team has been able to study recombination at a level of detail not previously possible.

A comprehensive and technically sophisticated study published in the May 7 issue of Science, «A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome,» by Max Planck Institute evolutionary anthropologists Richard E. Green, Svante Pääbo and 54 of their colleagues, demonstrates that «between 1 and 4 % of the genomes of people in Eurasia are derived from Neandertals» and that «Neandertals are on average closer to individuals in Eurasia than to individuals in Africa.»

The new study, led by Johannes Krause, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, used next - generation sequencing methods to read stretches of any DNA present in a sample and fish out those that resembled human DNA.

By studying and comparing the structure of unbound SRP with a signal - sequence bound SRP, a detailed picture of the impact of this binding is now available.

A previous study reported that this aggregation mechanism is mediated by so - called CAT - tails - C - terminal alanine - threonine sequences that are added to the defective proteins.

The researchers made their discovery by comparing Y - chromosome sequences among 69 men from nine globally distinct regions, including some that have only recently been available for study.

Sequence of causal and timing factors According to Hill, who has studied hunter - gatherers in South America for nearly 30 years, whether by shell beads, other kinds of gifts or through female transfer, the traits of cognition, culture and cooperation would eventually lead to specializations and government.

In their study, the team led by Stefanie Lutz and Liane G. Benning investigated the biodiversity of snow algae and other microbial communities using high - throughput genetic sequencing.

The Palaeogenomics study conducted by the Human Evolutionary Biology group of the Faculty of Science and Technology, led by Concepción de la Rua, in collaboration with researchers in Sweden, the Netherlands and Romania, has made it possible to retrieve the complete sequence of the mitogenome of the Pestera Muierii woman (PM1) using two teeth.

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«Single - nucleus RNA sequencing, droplet by droplet: DroNc - Seq, technology that merges single - nucleus RNA sequencing with microfluidics, brings new scale to gene expression studies in complex tissues.»

Traditional molecular systematic studies have progressed by sequencing genes one by one, a time - and cost - intensive task that has limited the amount of data a researcher could feasibly obtain.

Their results suggested that the chloroplasts of up to 200 plants could be sequenced together and accurately separated by CallHap, significantly reducing the costs of these population genetic studies.

An international study coordinated by researchers from IRD, the CEA (Genoscope), CIRAD, the CNRS, and the University of Buffalo (United States), and involving many laboratories, helped identify a reference genome sequence for coffee trees for the first time.

Professor Gianni Liti, a senior author on the paper from the Institute for Research on Cancer and Ageing, Nice, said: «We were able to study the evolution in time by combining genome sequences of the cell populations and tracking the growth characteristics of the yeast cells.

By only analysing DNA sequences that bind to cohesin, roughly one per cent of the genome, it would allow us to analyse an individual's mutations and make it much easier to conduct studies to identify novel harmful mutations,» Martin Enge concludes.

In a study published September 22, 2015 in Nature Communications, a team led by Northen used seven bacterial isolates from desert biocrusts, one of them the cyanobacterium Microcoleus vaginatus - sequenced by the DOE JGI — that had been the focus of earlier work.

The evolution of human populations has long been studied with unique sequences from the nonrecombining, male - specific Y chromosome (see the Perspective by Cann).

Sun decided to study a fraction of the peptide sequence that gave the glue its adhesive ability by attaching a heterogeneous hydrophilic peptide segment inspired by spider silk proteins.

This study was based on DNA sequence and deep phenotypic data from the Simons Simplex Collection, a set of 2,760 families that have a single child affected by ASD.

He mentioned mouse studies by Chris Fiorillo, now at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), who inserted genetic sequences that code for a light - sensitive protein called channelrhodopsin - 2 into dopamine - producing neurons of mice.

To tackle the challenge, the team developed a new approach, called 3D assembly, which determines the sequence of each chromosome by studying how the chromosomes fold inside the nucleus of a cell.

To better understand how changes in diet, lifestyle, and exposure to modern medicine affect primates» guts, a team of researchers led by University of Minnesota computer science and engineering professor Dan Knights, veterinary medicine professor Tim Johnson, and veterinary medicine Ph.D. student Jonathan Clayton, used DNA sequencing to study the gut microbes of multiple non-human primates species in the wild and in captivity as a model for studying the effects of emigration and lifestyle changes.

In the meantime, Boeke says Sleeping Beauty could provide a new and better way to create mutants to study embryonic development, since the inactivated gene can be «tagged» using a short DNA sequence inserted by the transposon.

The first study to sequence and analyze the entire genome of a HeLa cell line, along with access to its sequence data, has been published Aug. 7 in its final version, by G3: Genes Genomes Genetics, an open - access, scientific journal of the Genetics Society of America.

In an ambitious study, the authors attempt to trace drug resistance against all strains of the flu by using an extensive influenza virus database containing all known genetic sequence information (70,000 complete nucleotide sequences) for influenza strains.

Yet, «these studies using HeLa cells had to rely on information from the «reference» sequence produced by the Human Genome Project, even though there was evidence that the genomes of HeLa cell lines were probably quite different,» said Lars Steinmetz, Ph.D., who led the G3 study.

This study uncovered non-coding RNAs» cancerous role by using high - throughput sequencing techniques to analyse reams of genetic information on normal and diseased tissue as part of the Cancer Genome Atlas project.

«Just sequencing the gut flora gives you an inventory of the bacteria, but does not tell you how they are perceived by the host immune system,» said co-author Dr. Kenneth Simpson, professor of small animal medicine at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine whose laboratory characterized the E. coli identified in the study.

A new series of studies by academics at Royal Holloway, University of London and at University of London College found that people who have social power are strongly influenced by internal body cues stemming from their motor system when making judgements about preferences of paintings, objects, movements or letter sequences.

By sequencing the genome of the extensively studied moss Physcomitrella patens and comparing it to the sequenced genomes of rice, the flowering plant Arabidopsis, and single - cell algae, an international team has been able to look at what the ancestral land - plant genome looked like.

The study, «Transcriptome Sequencing Implicates Dorsal Striatum - Specific Gene Network, Immune Response and Energy Metabolism Pathways in Bipolar Disorder,» [http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp201694a.html] was supported by funding from the State of Florida.

Warinner began her graduate studies at Harvard in 2004, just after the sequencing of the human genome was completed and by the time she left in 2010, efforts to survey the human microbiome were in full swing.

The study, led by Dr Chris Tyler - Smith of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, analysed sequence differences between the Y chromosomes of more than 1200 men from 26 populations around the world using data generated by the 1000 Genomes Project.

The new map about the distribution of loggerhead turtles in Atlantic and Mediterranean waters has been elaborated by applying high resolution techniques to study mitochondrial DNA sequences and thanks to the joint work developed by international research teams that study different geographic distribution sites.

The sequencing and statistical techniques the team developed can also be used by others studying regulation of stem cells in other tissues, organ systems or organisms, he said.

To conduct their study, researchers enrolled hundreds of volunteers from families with one child affected by ASD and sequenced the complete genomes of every family member, including the parents and typically developing siblings.

The research team, co-led by Dr Rollins and Professor Bill Sherwin of UNSW, in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and Food in Western Australia, studied the DNA of 279 starlings near Munglinup in the south east of Western Australia and identified birds with a novel mitochondrial genome sequence (Haplotype H).

Dillman expects that the five sequences will be used in subsequent studies by many researchers around the world.

Venter is now CEO of a company called Human Longevity Inc. that aims to sequence 1 million participants» genomes by 2020 — a new private competitor to Collins's federal cohort study, perhaps.

Unlike previous studies, which tracked lymphoma progression by monitoring the sequence of just one cancer - associated protein, CAPP - Seq can identify a much larger range of mutations in the tumor genome.