Sentences with phrase «causing version of a gene»

The researchers have not attempted to add any new genes or change traits, only to correct a disease - causing version of a gene.

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It may be that some versions of the gene also play a role in deafness caused by environmental conditions, creating a predisposition to hearing loss.

The less adept mice, Rubin's team found, carry extra copies of a previously known human gene called DYRK; a mutated version of an almost identical gene in fruit flies, called minibrain, causes neurological defects.

It could be a more complicated version of the familiar case of sickle cell anemia: having two mutant copies of a certain gene causes the disease, whereas having only one mutant copy provides protection against malaria.

The parent generation had a mutant version of a gene dubbed hothead, which causes the plants to have fused flowers.

Two genes are primarily responsible for carbapenem - resistant versions of these disease - causing bacteria.

One study, known as DIAN TU, will administer experimental drugs to more than 160 people in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia who have one of three mutant genes that cause an early - onset version of the disease.

An earlier version of his vaccine only partially weakened the parasite, meaning it could still cause malaria in rare cases, but Kappe believes his lab has since fully disabled the parasite by deleting three genes crucial for its development.

Earlier versions of these «base editors,» which target typos related to the other half of disease - causing genetic spelling errors, have already been used to alter genes in plants, fish, mice and even human embryos.

Then for HARE5, the most active enhancer in an area of the brain called the cortex, they made minigenes containing either the chimp or human version of the enhancer linked to a «reporter» gene that caused the developing mouse embryo to turn blue wherever the enhancer turned the gene on.

Hutchinson - Gilford progeria is caused by a spontaneous mutation during conception in a gene called LMNA, which encodes a protein called prelamin A. Progeria patients experience a buildup of an abnormal version of prelamin A in their cells that, among other changes, distorts the nucleus and alters gene expression.

PENCIL IT IN Scientists have used two new versions of CRISPR gene editors, which rewrite DNA like pencils instead of cutting like scissors, to change single - letter typos that cause some blood disorders.

The human version of the FOXP2 (short for fork - head box P2) differs from that of the chimp (the closest living relative of humans) in two places along the genetic code, causing differences in two amino acids in the protein coded by the gene.

It also contains some of the most variable human genes: hundreds of versions — or alleles — exist of each gene in the population, allowing our bodies to react to a huge number of disease - causing agents and adapt to new ones.

So far, scientists have found that different populations of living humans have inherited the Neandertal version of genes that cause diabetes, lupus, and Crohn's disease; alter immune function; and affect the function of the protein keratin in skin, nails, and hair.

The process of figuring out which of these genetic differences lie on each chromosome is called haplotyping, and it's an important step toward identifying which version of a gene may cause disease.

Just like how a light can be controlled by multiple switches to influence its intensity and colour, the team identified hundreds of genes controlled by multiple promoters, causing alternate versions of that gene to be produced.

NMD also ensures that many mutations in our genes do not cause any disease symptoms — as long as the second copy of the gene affected is still intact and thus a correct version of the body plan is available.

It's the extra-long copy of the huntingtin gene that makes neurons sick, because it causes them to produce an extra-long, harmful version of the huntingtin protein.

They blow up because Maselko's technology instructs the cell to generate an immense amount of proteins caused by that particular gene — but only when the engineered yeast mate with wild versions.