Sentences with phrase «cell trait in»

«C. elegans is a powerful tool for biological research because it shares many of the same anatomic and cell functions as humans, and their short lifespan (average 17 days) enables us to study genes and measure cell traits in just two to three weeks.»

Not exact matches

As the video explains, these traits are due to the tiny molecular machines in our cells known as proteins, which are encoded by bits of DNA called genes.

People of every nation, color, language, belief, and condition are now known to possess in their body cells trait factors drawn by an inconceivably complex sequence of intercombinations from a common «gene pool.»

With summer sports seasons in full swing and preparation for fall sports participation and training beginning, there's no better time to revisit the National Athletic Trainers» Association (NATA)'s Inter-Association Task Force Consensus Statement guidelines on sickle cell trait and the athlete.

Data from the U.S. National Sudden Death in Young Athletes Registry support pre-participation screening to prospectively identify athletes with sickle cell trait and to promote training modifications and precautions.

And 1 in 13 African American infants are born with the sickle cell trait, meaning they carry the sickle cell gene, although they don't have SCD.

As many as 1 in 300 African Americans have some form of SCD, and it's thought that about 1 in 10 African Americans have sickle cell trait.

But an embryo with the sickle cell trait usually is implanted in the uterus.

Individuals who carry sickle cell trait (the unexpressed mutation of sickle cell anemia) are more likely to survive malaria and therefore, the trait is actually protective against a disease that is endemic in many parts of the world.

Exertional sickling is a potentially fatal medical condition occurring in athletes carrying the sickle cell trait.

He and others have proposed that a group of cells involved in early development called the neural crest are responsible for the suite of traits associated with domestication syndrome.

«If ctenophores diverged first, these organ systems likely have been present in the common ancestor of all animals — and sponges and placozoans must subsequently have lost them — or complex traits like nerve cells and muscles must have emerged independently several times in different lineages,» Wörheide explains.

In fungi, however, prions do not cause damage but instead appear to confer beneficial traits to the cells that harbor them.

Culled from embryos barely 4 or 5 days old, these cells are versatile shape - shifters that can mature into any type of cell in the body — a trait that's made them crucial to research.

The study team wanted to understand the particular traits of the tumor cells circulating in the blood and in the sites where the cancer has spread.

The team of researchers, led by yeast cell biologist Susan Lindquist of the University of Chicago, had demonstrated last year that a metabolic trait in yeast called [PSI +] could be passed from one generation to the next without changes in the yeast's DNA.

Changes in the cells» migration might account for many physical traits linked to tameness in domesticated animals.

It wasn't until 2014, however, that researchers offered a single explanation for the phenomenon of floppy ears, smaller teeth, tameness and other «domestication syndrome» traits: a mild deficit in neural crest cells.

Writing in April in the journal Cell, the scientists said this ability allows octopuses to reinterpret their DNA in a way that could grant them new traits, like better cold adaptation.

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They have made it easy for anyone with basic molecular biology training to insert, remove, and edit genes in cells, including sperm, eggs, and embryos, potentially curing genetic diseases or adding desirable traits.

An extensive database identifying immune traits, such as how immune cell function is regulated at the genetic level in healthy people, is reported by researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their collaborators in the journal Ccell function is regulated at the genetic level in healthy people, is reported by researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their collaborators in the journal CellCell.

The findings suggest that the presence of sickle cell trait may explain, at least in part, prior observations of greater doses of anemia medications administered to African - American dialysis patients relative to Caucasian patients.

The investigators also found that sickle cell trait was slightly more common among dialysis patients, present in 10 % of study participants compared with 6.5 % to 8.7 % in the general African - American population.

Sickle cell trait represents the carrier state of sickle cell disease and is present in roughly 6 % to 8 % of African Americans.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have spotted a strong family trait in two distant relatives: The channels that permit entry of sodium and calcium ions into cells turn out to share similar means for regulating ion intake, they say.

Seeking to take advantage of these traits, scientists can reprogram viruses to function as vectors, capable of carrying their genetic cargo of choice into the nuclei of cells in the body.

Instead, tumors should be considered complex tissues in which the cancer cells communicate with the surrounding cellular microenvironment and evolve traits that promote their own survival.

Instead, tumors should be considered as complex tissues in which the cancer cells communicate directly and indirectly with the surrounding cellular microenvironment and evolve traits that promote their own survival.

«We still need more studies to determine if there are other treatments that can be used to slow the progression of kidney disease specifically in individuals with sickle cell trait.»

Similarly, carriers in the Jackson study of one copy of the genes that cause sickle - cell disease — a useful trait against malaria in Africa — appear to be more at risk for kidney disease.

The findings, which appear in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), may have important public policy implications for genetic counseling for individuals with sickle cell trait (SCT).

In fertility clinics, iPS cells could enable prospective parents to choose embryos for desired traits more easily than they can with conventional assisted - reproduction technologies.

Although we did observe positive effects on some aging traits, such as memory impairments and reduced red blood cell counts, our studies showed that similar drug effects are also seen in young mice, indicating that rapamycin did not influence these measures by slowing aging, but rather via other, aging - independent, mechanisms.»

A paper to be published this week in The Plant Cell reveals the answer to the long - standing question of how black rice became black and, moreover, traces the history of the trait from its molecular origin to its spread into modern - day varieties of rice.

Cell products are released into the tissue, and organs of an organism, to finally affect the physiology in a way that produces a trait.

They found that the protein seems to help maintain several traits in normal breast cells, including the ability to adhere to other epithelial cells, and the presence of molecules marking the cells as differentiated and not capable of self - renewal like breast stem cells.

But in a paper published in the journal Cell, researchers at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT reveal that aneuploidy alone can cause this significant variability in traits, in otherwise genetically identical cells.

Fitch and co-authors Richard Wrangham of Harvard University and Adam Wilkins of Humboldt University in Berlin, who proposed their theory in July in Genetics, point out that these traits are controlled by so - called neural crest cells, which in vertebrate embryos form a neural tube along the spine.

Of the five variants of the sickle - cell trait, four appear to have originated in Africa and spread through trade routes or the transport of enslaved Africans.

The researchers hope that the identification of these unique cell wall traits in FHB - resistant common wheat could help in breeding durum wheat varieties that are able to defend themselves against infection, and reduce fungal toxin contamination in food.

A child of parents who each possess one copy of the sickle - cell trait has a one - in - four chance of inheriting both sickle - cell alleles — and thus getting sickle - cell anemia.

If you imagine the female egg cell (and later, the fertilized egg) as a spherical planet with its own intrinsic biological geography, then certain characteristics of that cell — the location of protein molecules or RNA messages or biochemical traits like pH or even the internal connective structures called microtubules — will be more prominent in certain regions, like one hemisphere as opposed to the other, or near the surface rather than near the core.

Also, the pigmentation of axolotls varies greatly from one cell to the next, unlike in humans or other animals, in which cell traits tend to be uniform.

Before this revelation of misclassification, researchers accepted the simplicity of microsporidial cells by assuming that complicated traits hadn't evolved in supposedly ancient, simple cells.

The American Society of Hematology Policy Statement on Screening for Sickle Cell Trait and Athletic Participation opposes mandatory screening of athletes for sickle cell trait as a prerequisite to athletic participation and urges athletics programs to adopt universal preventive interventions in their training programs to protect all athletes from exertion - related illness and deCell Trait and Athletic Participation opposes mandatory screening of athletes for sickle cell trait as a prerequisite to athletic participation and urges athletics programs to adopt universal preventive interventions in their training programs to protect all athletes from exertion - related illness and dTrait and Athletic Participation opposes mandatory screening of athletes for sickle cell trait as a prerequisite to athletic participation and urges athletics programs to adopt universal preventive interventions in their training programs to protect all athletes from exertion - related illness and decell trait as a prerequisite to athletic participation and urges athletics programs to adopt universal preventive interventions in their training programs to protect all athletes from exertion - related illness and dtrait as a prerequisite to athletic participation and urges athletics programs to adopt universal preventive interventions in their training programs to protect all athletes from exertion - related illness and death.

Leukemia is a disease in which each cell can exhibit different genetic traits, and now a research team led by Joakim Lundeberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology / SciLifeLab, have found a cheap way to examine individual leukemia cells, which could transform leukemia treatment.

But scientists have discovered that misfolded proteins can have a positive side in yeast, helping cells navigate the dicey current of natural selection by expressing a variety of hidden genetic traits.

In this session, students will explore the emerging scientific and ethical questions behind using genetic analysis to probe a person's athletic potential as well as health issues related to concussions, sickle cell trait, and a heart condition that can be particularly dangerous for athletes.

But when the daughter cells are mated and genetic reassortment takes place, they can subsequently pass along this same trait without the prion — that is, the trait becomes fixed in the cell's lineage and no longer depends on the prion state.