Sentences with phrase «carry new genes»

When the bird hatches it carries a small percentage of germ cells that carry the new genes.

To date, however, this research has been slowed by the inefficiency of the viruses that are now used as vectors to carry new genes into cells.

If it works, the modified mosquitoes should quickly replace competitors who do not carry the new genes; the enhanced immune systems of the new mosquitoes, in turn, would resist the spread of the malaria parasite.

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.

Not exact matches

In 2012, at the Central Institute for Cotton Research in Nagpur, I saw a new variety of GM cotton carrying two so - called «stacked» Bt genes in one test plot, while a nearby plot was testing a variety of cotton using organic methods — for some farmers the premium prices for organic cotton make it worthwhile.

A New York patient is now the second U.S. citizen to be infected with bacteria carrying a «superbug» gene, according to findings published earlier this week in the journal for Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

A new breed of genetically modified mosquitoes carries a gene that cripples its own offspring.

Elsewhere in the field, Nature Genetics carries reports of four new genes linked with Alzheimer's disease by consortia in the US (DOI: 10.1038 / ng.801) and Europe (DOI: 10.1038 / ng.803).

But by investigating the DNA sequence around the resistance genes, the team figured out how the resistance genes transfer occurred through a new mechanism named «carry back,» where the pathogen basically has a primitive form of «sex» with the Actinobacterium and takes up its resistance genes after it dies.

They inserted a new gene into cells that carry the mutant protein.

Being obese or having a higher body mass index (BMI) while carrying a BRCA (BReast CAncer gene) mutation is positively linked with higher levels of damage to the DNA in normal breast gland cells, new research suggests.

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).

Suspecting that the other four carried a new Ehrlichia species, the researchers sequenced the bacterial gene in their blood and compared it to a database containing the sequences of known infectious bacteria.

New strategies to control mosquitoes are being developed that use «gene drive» - using the latest Crispr / Cas 9 genetic tools to make mosquitoes infertile or unable to carry the malaria parasite.

The study team, led by neuroscientist Joseph Buxbaum of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and including coworkers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia and Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, genetically engineered mice to carry defective versions of the FOXP2 gene.

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.

However, the new, larger study found that the effect of viral replication capacity was very early after infection, and was independent of both initial viral load and whether individuals carried certain protective variants of immune genes called HLA that positively influence immune responses to HIV.

The massive project, carried out by a private company in the country, deCODE genetics, has yielded new disease risk genes, insights into human evolution, and a list of more than 1000 genes that people can apparently live without.

New evidence shows that chimps carry genes from bonobos

A study carried out by the Laboratoire Neurobiologie des Interactions Cellulaires et Neurophysiopathologie (CNRS / Aix - Marseille Université), in collaboration with clinicians from Marseilles Public Hospitals (AP - HM) and scientists from the Salk Institute in San Diego (US), has revealed a new gene that plays a crucial role during early development in humans and whose under - expression may induce certain autistic traits.

Gary Toenniessen, associate director of agricultural sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, which funded part of the work, says that the initiative will allow Mexican subsistence farmers to grow and sell potatoes carrying a gene owned by Monsanto, a US biotech - nology company.

Mice carrying a mutated copy of the gene have 10-fold fewer neurons and other brain abnormalities, a new study suggests.

«New methods such the CRISPR - Cas9 system for gene editing now make it possible to carry out functional studies in other species, and this will in turn lead to decisive advances in our understanding of early embryonic development in mammals.»

Previously, Semenza's team generated a virus that carries the gene encoding an active form of the HIF - 1 protein, which turns on genes necessary for building new blood vessels.

In 2012, at the Central Institute for Cotton Research in Nagpur, I saw a new variety of GM cotton carrying two so - called «stacked» Bt genes in one test plot, while a nearby plot was testing a variety of cotton using organic methods — for some farmers the premium prices for organic cotton make it worthwhile.

Last month, a new study found that roughly 70 percent of women who carry cancer - predisposing mutations in the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 (the main genes included in genetic tests for breast cancer patients) will develop breast cancer, often in early adulthood.

People from Melanesia, a region in the South Pacific, carry genes of a yet - to - be-identified extinct human species, suggest findings of a new study presented at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in Canada on Oct. 20.

From an evolutionary standpoint, passenger pigeon de-extinction creates a new lineage of life: a lineage originating from the band - tailed pigeon but carrying the genes of the extinct passenger pigeon, very similar to hybridization.

Ana got her PhD at ICGEB and Osaka University on strategies for optimization of HBsAg expression in Pichia pastoris under the direction of Dr. Navin Khanna, and she did postdoctoral work woth Prof. Rolf Jessberger at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York where she carried out a project aimed at deciphering the mechanisms of gene targeting by recombinant adeno - associated virus in human cells.

An international scientific team has carried out the world's first analysis of the impact of ocean acidification on every gene in the coral genome, throwing new light on the like...

People who carry a particular type of gene have natural resistance against typhoid fever according to new research published in Nature Genetics.

It opens and closes paths into its dense structure, so that genetic - instruction - carrying molecules can find their targets, and changes shape to arrange genes into new configurations.

This work, published in «Blood», was carried out by the CNIO Telomeres and Telomerase Group The treatment is based on the transport of the telomerase gene to the bone marrow cells using gene therapy, a completely new strategy in the treatment of aplastic anaemia

GenoMEL research carried out to identify new inherited genes which increase the risk of melanoma

Background: Horizontal transfer of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) that carry virulence and antimicrobial resistance genes mediates the evolution of methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and the emergence of new MRSA clones.

Spontaneous expansion of the CAG repeat stretch in the CAG 140 KI mouse model, which carries a chimeric mouse / human exon 1 containing around 125 CAG repeats and the human polyproline region inserted in the murine huntingtin gene (Menalled et al., 2003, Hickey et al., 2008), has recently led to a new KI line that carries around 190 CAG repeats (CAG 190 KI) in a congenic C57Bl / 6J background.

In this New York Times article, A-list actress Angelina Jolie bravely announced that she made the tough decision to undergo elective bilateral mastectomy after her doctors warned her that she has an 87 % risk of developing breast cancer and a 50 % risk of getting ovarian cancer because her mother died of breast cancer and she carries the BRCA1 gene.

«It could have been something as simple as the first cow to have a black - and - white color by chance also carried the A1 version of the gene, and farmers then said, «we like the look of these,» said Keith Woodford, an honorary professor of farm management and agribusiness at New Zealand's Lincoln University.

«Lawsuit: Tiffany Pushed Out Employee with Cancer Mutation» (Associated Press) «Lisa O'Rourke alleges in a federal lawsuit that the New York - based company discriminated against her because she carries a gene mutation that put her at high risk for developing cancer, and she was compelled to have surgeries that her lawyer says were life - saving.»

Carried over from previous releases is scene - specific commentary by director Mel Brooks, the 28 - minute documentary «Back in the Saddle» (with new interviews with Brooks, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, writer Andrew Bergman and others, and plenty of clips from the alternate TV version), 1975 TV pilot Black Bart, inspired by the film and starring Lou Gossett Jr. and Steve Landesberg, ten minutes of deleted and alternate scenes (including the full versions of clips seen in the documentary), and the trailer.

Genes shared with the other members of the New Renault Clio family A long list of safety and travelling comfort equipment has been carried over from New Renault Clio to New Clio Renault Sport, including:

Granted, Audi isn't spilling the beans until Beijing, but the automaker did release a new teaser image on its official Facebook page of what looks to be a side profile outline of a big SUV, accompanied by a short caption that says, «He carries the gene of the #Audi #Urquattro.»

At first glance, it is visible that the new Audi R10 carries genes from the extremely successful R8.

Evolving Chart Pattern Sensitive Neural Network Based Forex Trading Agents — by Gene I. Sher — a research paper on a new approach to train and evolve neural networks that are able to carry out Forex trading decisions based on geometric properties of currency charts.

It must be remembered that each time a breeding occurs, one half of the genes of the sire and one half of the genes of the dam are carried forward to their new pups.

The best way to ensure that your new dog does not carry the PRA gene, and therefore will not develop the disorder, is to have both of its parents tested, if possible.

His genes carry on to a new generation; over time, we then see variability in how hairy men are across different groups.