Sentences with phrase «carrying gene»

Dogs of these breeds, such as Border Collies and Australian Shepherds have a high chance of carrying the gene called MDR1 which makes them hypersensitive to many pesticides and anti-parasitic treatments, which can cause seizure, blindness and death.

This type of genetic expression is referred to as Clear — not carrying the gene and not capable of producing the recessive trait.

Unfortunately, it is more complicated than traits like coat colour where a dominant gene will show up in all offspring carrying the gene and elimination of a problem is as simple as not breeding affected animals.

This ensures that if a potential breeding dog is a carrier of a specific disease - carrying gene that safety measures are put in place to prevent producing puppies affected by it.

Currently Cornell University is working on a blood test to identify Shar - pei carrying the gene for this disease.

Dogs found to be carrying the gene for PRA — whether or not they actually have the disorder — should not be bred.

When releases ended, a definitive measure of the fitness cost of carrying the gene could be obtained by the rate of its declining frequency.

In part, that's because it's so hard to track the vehicles carrying gene therapies.

Organoids grown from the cells of a patient carrying the gene for severe microcephaly, however, didn't grow as large because those brain regions didn't develop properly.

It afflicts approximately 30,000 people in the United States — with another 75,000 people carrying the gene that will eventually lead to it.

When athletes inject genes, they put foreign material — a virus carrying the gene or pieces of nonhuman DNA attached to the gene — into their bodies.

Last year, the two companies announced the identification of a narrow chromosomal region carrying a gene that contributes to osteoarthritis.

An international team of scientists, including four from Brown University, conducted and analyzed tests using a «knock - in» mouse carrying a gene for a mutant DNA / RNA binding protein called TDP - 43, which causes a form of inherited ALS in humans.

A DNA molecule carrying a gene that produces the interleukin - 10 protein is injected into the fluid surrounding the spinal cord or into the inflamed arthritic joint.

At present, the researchers have permission to test the TILs carrying the gene for neomycin resistance on 10 patients suffering from melanoma, a type of skin cancer.

Bacteria carrying a gene that allows them to resist polymyxins, the antibiotics of last resort for some kinds of infection, have been found in Denmark and China, prompting a global search for the gene.

When it's done inside the body, doctors may inject the virus carrying the gene in question directly into the part of the body that has defective cells.

The researchers also discovered that the great tits carrying the gene variant for longer beaks were more successful in raising their chicks to fledglings than birds without it.

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.

It is a disabled HIV virus carrying a gene to inhibit replication.

The genetically manipulated agrobacteria, carrying the gene for PAT, were then used to infect the crop in which resistance was required.

The permits enabled a group at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan to produce two varieties of rice carrying a gene from the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacteria that provides pest resistance.

«The statistics show that carrying this gene, combined with being infected with hepatitis A, conveys an enormous protection against asthma, allergies, and related diseases,» Umetsu says.

To determine whether their method had succeeded, the researchers inserted plasmids carrying a gene that codes for a green fluorescent protein.

So consider a gene that has plasticity such that in one setting an individual carrying that gene becomes reproductive.

When exposed to a magnetic field, injected magnetic nanoparticles heat up and cause neurons carrying a gene for heat sensitivity to fire (shown in yellow, white, green and light blue at right).

And even where studies have linked a gene to a disease, people carrying the gene or genes will not necessarily develop the disease; they simply face an increased risk.

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.

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

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

If you carry the genes, you have a 1 in 30 chance of developing coeliac disease at some stage in your life.

Before this groundbreaking discovery scientists knew that DNA carried genes which parents passed onto their offspring but didn't know how it worked or what DNA looked like.

An inlaw carries a gene that puts the kids at risk for eczema, allergies and asthma, according to his doctor.

However, if that was truly the case — if there was a twin gene — then twins would occur with predictable frequency in those families that carry the gene.

Perhaps nurturing parents are more likely to carry genes that confer better health.

You can also have sickle cell trait, which means you carry the gene for sickle cell but don't have the disease.

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.

Doctors said that Rosamere and her ex-husband both carried the gene for albinism.

However, many parents are desperate to know whether their child carries the genes for dwarfism, particularly if one or both of the parents have the condition themselves.

Some blood tests are offered only to women of certain ethnic backgrounds, who may be at higher risk of carrying genes for specific diseases.

Several types of dangerous bacteria, carrying genes that our antibiotics can not fight, are travelling the world hidden in ships» ballast tanks

«We worked with mice carrying genes that predisposed them to epilepsy and premature death.

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.

They also worked out which of 221 dead relatives would have carried the gene variant, and analysed how long each of these lived.

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

Biologist Stephen Friend is searching for exceptional people who carry genes for serious childhood disease but have never got sick — are you one of them?

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.

As it turned out, viruses were too small to carry that gene, so Sweeney began searching for a smaller gene that would at least mimic dystrophin.

Over time, some of these developed the ability to build proteins and switched to double - stranded DNA to carry their genes.

In a nonhuman primate model geneticist Anthony Chan DVM, PhD, and his colleagues at Yerkes developed, rhesus macaques carry a gene encoding a fragment of mutant human huntingtin.