Sentences with phrase «containing gene drives»
And a US intelligence counterpart to DARPA is planning to fund research into detecting organisms containing gene drives and other modifications.
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Next week, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA), which is part of the Office of the US Director of National Intelligence, will hold a meeting about a planned funding programme for detecting genetically modified organisms that are potentially harmful, including ones that contain gene drives.
When creating the antimalaria antibody gene drive, the researchers had to inject Cas9, guide RNAs and bits of DNA containing the gene drive into the egg.
Not exact matches
A few days after Chalfie's call, Prasher drove to the post office with a little tube containing the GFP gene, put it in a padded envelope, and mailed it to Columbia.
When the researchers bred female flies containing the yellow gene drive to normal males, 95 to 100 percent of both male and female progeny were yellow.
The chunks of DNA that broke off all contained genes that help drive cancer progression, and they moved to prime locations in the genome where they would be most active.
Several more projects explicitly focus on gene drive applications: A group at UC Riverside led by molecular biologist Omar Akbari will try to document the genetic diversity of the Aedes aegypti mosquito and test ways to limit or reverse gene drives in contained test environments.
pAAV - SEPT - Acceptor, the preferred vector, contains a promoterless splice acceptor - IRES - neoR gene, which enhances the efficiency of homologous integration via gene trap enrichment, whereas pAAV - TK - Acceptor has a conventional heterologous promoter - driven TK - neoR gene.
A self - inactivating lentiviral construct containing a mouse phosphoglycerate kinase - 1 internal promoter driving the human gene encoding GDNF [44] was used to generate GDNF - secreting hNPCctx.
HV cells constitutively expressing the LacZ gene were generated by electroporation with a vector containing a CAG driven β - Geo cDNA followed by selection in G418 (150 µg / ml) for 2 wk.