Sentences with phrase «central role of genes»

For some developmental and neursocience focused professors, this type of question raises the issue about to the central role of genes in how we grow.

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Since studies had shown that children in heavily polluted areas of the Central Valley had more infections, and pollution and secondhand smoke contain similar toxic compounds, Nadeau searched for genes that played a major role in fighting infection.

WHEN we consider some of the most striking phenomena permitted by the laws of physics — from human reasoning to computer technologies and the replication of genes — we find that information plays a central role.

The research team behind the new study previously discovered that genes mutated in some of the tumors play a central role in determining whether neural crest cells live or die.

MicroRNAs are very small pieces of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and play a central role in the regulation of genes.

That gene, HLA - B * 5701, codes for a protein on immune cells that plays a central role in clearing the body of HIV - infected cells.

Most importantly, this body of work has uncovered some of the first direct evidence for the central role of changes in gene cis - regulatory sequences in the evolution of body plans and body parts and in the origin of new structures and pattern elements.

The Gene Drive Files show that the 2 following appointed members of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology also took a central active role in recruitment and strategy for the «Gene Drive Research Sponsors and Supporters coalition»: Todd Kuiken (North Carolina State University) and Bob Friedman of the J Craig Venter Institute.

The researchers discovered a single letter variant located in TP53, a gene known to play a central role in tumor biology and for accumulating so called somatic mutations, during the development of cancer in patients.

Expression and functional analyses of the gene strongly suggest that PDE4D plays an important role in atherosclerosis, most likely by influencing the proliferation and migration of smooth muscle cells within arteries that is central to the biology of ischemic stroke.

«For 30 years scientists have suspected that gene regulation has played a central role in human evolution,» said Kevin White, PhD, associate professor of genetics and ecology and evolution at Yale and senior author of the study.

The role of αCaMKII autophosphorylation in the establishment of alcohol addiction Alanna Easton, King's College, UK Novel age - dependent learning deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease: implications for translational research Karienn Montgomery, University of Florida, USA Microsatellite regions upstream of the vole Avpr1a gene contribute to both individual and species differences in receptor expression Zoe Donaldson, Columbia University, USA Per Genes and Addiction Stephanie Perreau - Lenz, Central Institute of Mental Health, Germany

UT MD Anderson Scientists Discover Secret Life of Chromatin (08/30/2011) A team of researchers directed by Dr. Sharon Dent, director of the Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis and Center for Cancer Epigenetics, investigate a signaling activity of chromatin that is independent of its central role in gene transcription.

In response to cellular stress such as DNA damage, oncogene activation, transcriptional inhibition, and hypoxia, tumor suppressor p53 is activated and expressed, and acts as a transcription factor to induce its target genes [1], thereby playing a central role in the regulation of DNA repair, cell cycle, apoptosis, senescence, and angiogenesis [2 - 4].

The Yale team found more than 580 different genes that may play a role in regeneration of axons in nerve cells, something that rarely occurs in adult mammals but is of vital interest to scientists hoping to repair injuries to the central nervous system.