Sentences with phrase «carries on your genes»

And you only appear cute to your mother because of biological chemistry: her brain tricks her into finding you attractive in order to carry on her genes.

I imagine it brings a sense of great pride that someone else carries on your genes.

Not exact matches

Only in the past decade has RNA been discovered to carry out a wide variety of specific tasks in genetics, such as turning particular genes on or off.

But it carries genes that are found only on plasmids, and lacks any telltale virus genes.

«Those carrying the target gene variant slept, on average, for five hours, which was one hour shorter than their twins without the gene.

And on the subject of public health, it is worth exploding the number one myth of anti-GM lobbyists that the antibiotic resistance genes carried by some GM crops might lead to devastating human epidemics if transferred to bacteria.

Genes carry information that determines your traits (features or characteristics that are passed on to you by your parents).

When a child is born carrying the gene for celiac, it isn't necessarily «turned on».

Epigeneticists have found that our cells carry a type of memory of the experiences of our ancestors — not only that, but 95 % of our genes aren't yet coded at birth, dependent on nurturing and the environment to determine their fate.

While men can carry the gene and pass it on to their daughters, a family history of twins doesn't make them any more likely to have twins themselves.

Fahey, on the other hand, is an unknown, although the family name carries some cache thanks to his cousin, Gene Fahey, the widely respected judge and former city councilman.

The Leopoldina, Germany's national academy of sciences, has published a report strongly recommending that preimplantation genetic diagnosis of early embryos be allowed by law when couples know they carry genes that could cause a serious incurable disease if passed on to their children.

Analysis suggests that the gene cluster is likely to be actively expressed and producing the toxin, so the research team are interested in performing further research to understand what effects carrying this bacterium has on the animals.

So say scientists at Merck, who learned from trials in 2007 that their vaccine, based on a live, weakened adenovirus carrying genes for HIV proteins, was ineffective.

For nearly two decades, gene therapy researchers have focused on delivering a gene carrying the code to produce the deficient clotting factor in hemophilia.

Drosophila sechellia females, which lay their eggs on these fruits, carry a mutation in a gene that inhibits egg production.

While other researchers focus on using modified viruses to deliver genes for therapy, sometimes the genes are too large for viruses to carry, Lu said.

«For example, among individuals carrying the SNP sequence «TGT» at all three locations on both copies of the gene, 62 percent were blue - eyed,» says Sturm's colleague David Duffy.

Based on their results, Gigi Ebenezer, M.B.B.S., M.D., assistant professor of neurology and the first author on the study, reported that protein clumps were detected in 70 percent of cases and 20 percent of patients who carried disease - causing genes but hadn't yet developed symptoms.

Crisanti's team, for instance, is working on gene drives in the malaria - carrying mosquito Anopheles gambiae that perpetuate mutations causing females to become infertile.

In November 1990, Discover first reported on efforts by an Australian company called Florigene (then Calgene) to turn roses blue by inserting a pigment - carrying gene from a bacterium.

In March three separate teams announced that they had zeroed in on a DNA sequence on chromosome 1 that carries the gene for complement factor H, a protein involved in regulating inflammation.

But all of the deaf children carried mutations on both copies of the gene.

Geneticists have had some success in developing tests on maternal blood to detect fetal genes that are not also carried by the mother.

About 4 percent of people in the study carried one of these two rare variants, which are located in the vicinity of the MGST1 gene on chromosome 12.

Initial tests on mice showed the hybrid virus was very efficient: the gene it carried was active in 24 per cent of airway cells after two months, a far better proportion than achieved by other delivery methods (New Scientist, 10 March 2001, p 19).

siRNAs are very small molecules that carry genetic information to cells, but unlike DNA that can turn genes on, siRNA interferes with the production of particular proteins and can turn cancer genes off.

The former target, say, using gene editing techniques to inactivate HIV receptors and achieve resistance of blood cells to the virus (which Sangamo BioSciences is working on in clincial trials) is different than helping parents who both carry genes for Huntington's Disease to have a child that is free of the disease (a change to the genome that would be passed on to future generations and would likely not be very commonly needed).

ICSI removes the element of competition, and defective genes carried by the sperm injected into the egg will be passed on to the child.

In 2013 another study will focus on a family in Colombia that carries one of these rogue genes, treating them with the amyloid - fighting drug Crenezumab.

Jirtle is well known for his work on mice that carry the agouti gene, which is highly vulnerable to environmental influences.

Vassaux's team next plans to test gene therapy carried by nanoparticles on a variety of tumors in animals.

The borrowed genes control the production of sugars carried on the surface of the cells.

Mitochondrial DNA carries far fewer genes than DNA in the nucleus does, but changes in mitochondrial DNA sequence can have a major impact on health.

Based on experiments with mice, some scientists had speculated that cilia nestled in a dimple at the top of the embryo called the node might push fluid down the left side of the embryo, carrying a signal that somehow triggers certain genes to activate.

Newly developed approaches that use CRISPR / Cas9 gene editing technology can generate offspring that carry copies of the altered gene on both chromosomes — a phenomenon called super-Mendelian inheritance that, in theory, should quickly convert an entire population.

Clare Wilson reports research on the relationship between genes for proteins that «carry bad cholesterol» and longevity (6 September, p...

Individuals typically respond differently to a given medication depending on which gene mutation they carry.

Males who carried a particular variant of the IGF2R gene had significantly lower IQs overall, although Jirtle could not predict any individual's score based on genes.

Years of diabetes research carried out on mice whose DNA had been altered with a human growth hormone gene is now ripe for reinterpretation after a new study by researchers at KU Leuven confirms that the gene had an unintended effect on the mice's insulin production, a key variable in diabetes research.

To get the CRISPR components into bacteria, the researchers created two delivery vehicles — engineered bacteria that carry CRISPR genes on plasmids, and bacteriophage particles that bind to the bacteria and inject the genes.

The genes encoding NDM - 1 and other antibiotic resistance factors are usually carried on plasmids — circular strands of DNA separate from the bacterial genome — making it easier for them to spread through populations.

Both approaches zeroed in on a gene that carries a signature region similar to those found in the bread - mold and fruit - fly proteins.

According to calculations by population geneticists based on family trees, one of these survivors carried a recessive gene for achromatopsia, which also causes severe sensitivity to light and poor vision.

These crops, being embraced by big agriculture in the U.S., carry genes that imbue them with resistance to herbicides and lace their tissues with a bacterial toxin harmless to humans but fatal to pests that may try to feed on them.

People who carry one of those eight mutations had, on average, smaller brain regions than brains without a mutation but of comparable age; some of the genes are implicated in cancer and mental illness.

The first people to be treated with a gene therapy had ADA - SCID, also called «bubble boy disease», and some later got leukaemia, probably because the virus carrying the new genes also switched on cancer genes.

Each of 3,222 British people with Pakistani heritage carries, on average, mutations in 140 genes that stop those genes from working, researchers report online March 3 in Science.

Today most East Asians and nearly all Koreans lack a chemical in their armpits that bacteria munch on to make body odor, because they carry this variant of the ABCC11 gene.

In a recent issue of Nature, the researchers reported on a particular gene sequence that allows Bacteroidetes to carry out this function.