Sentences with phrase «certain gene set»

Not exact matches

At last year's Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego, Bergh found himself sitting at dinner with Othman Laraki, the cofounder and CEO of Color Genomics — a company that extracts the DNA from a customer's submitted saliva sample and then looks for a set number of gene mutations known to be associated with increased risk for developing certain hereditary cancers or heart conditions (depending on the test).

To generate a rich source of potential vaccine and drug target candidates, the team identified a set of genes that are more active in certain stages of the parasite life cycle and within the parasite's gut.

at the Boston Science Museum explains, although certain genes are more common in various races, there is no set of Asian genes or Hispanic genes.

Recent research also has illuminated how the deadly cascade that leads to brain atrophy is set in motion: The buildup of amyloid plaques, working in tandem with certain gene mutations, sparks the formation of the renegade tau proteins.

Most well known is the increased risk of certain chromosomal abnormalities such as Down's syndrome, in which there is an extra set of genes in each cell.

Mutalik led the effort to design a set of promoters and RBSs that could be attached to any «gene of interest» such that a bioengineer could be near certain (well, 93 percent sure, but that's near certain in biology) that the protein could be made within an organism to a desired target range.

For each set of organisms, they used differences in the number of mutations in certain genes to determine where each organism sat in its particular group's tree.

The work from these two research groups in Barcelona now offers novel information for understanding this process, by focusing on a set of genes that act during development and are specific to certain tissues.

«Because gene therapy may carry certain risks, we set out to see if we could perform a similar transformation with small molecules, thereby eliminating — or at least reducing — our reliance on genetic manipulation,» says Dr. Ding.

«Not only are these transcription factors vital for turning on certain genes, but their interaction is important to keep each other from going to the wrong place and turning on a set of genes that doesn't belong in a heart cell.»

Once an organism can draw on two full sets of essentially the same genes, it can begin «to de-evolve certain of the genes in one set and adapt them to some other function — importantly, without compromising the gene's original function,» she says.

Using an RNA interference screen, Swanton and his colleagues identified a set of genes involved in the regulation of mitotic arrest and in the metabolism of ceramides, lipid molecules abundant in cell membranes that influence whether tumors are sensitive to certain chemotherapy agents.

Most recently, research has shown that a certain set of these microbes may actually influence the activity of genes in your brain — and the parts they play are not small parts.

Hormones and the Microbiome Turns out a certain set of gut bacteria and more specifically certain bacterial genes, called the estrobolome, produce an essential enzyme...

Meaning that while genes may set you up for a certain type of disease or problem, just because you have a gene for something like Alzheimer's disease or autoimmune disease or depression, it doesn't mean you are destined to get that disease.