Sentences with phrase «containing human genes»

Rifkin wants to provoke a debate about what it means to be «human» and to undermine the legal basis for patenting organisms — particularly those containing human genes.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has given a provisional go - ahead for genetically modified rice containing human genes to be grown in Kansas, despite concerns that the proteins from the pharma rice could find their way into the food chain.

Robl and Stice, in collaboration with the biotech company Genzyme of Cambridge, Massachusetts, have already created embryos that contain the human gene for albumin protein, which helps restore the blood's osmotic pressure after blood loss.

Mice with human - derived livers, goats with human blood cells, and other animals that contain human genes or cells are arguably valuable tools for medical research, but they also can raise tricky ethical questions and trigger public controversy.

Some Web sites claim to sell Repoxygen, a drug that contains the human gene for erythropoietin, plus some DNA controlling how it's made, housed inside a virus [source: Frankel].

Not exact matches

Billions of dollars and thousands of scientists are devoted to producing an exhaustive map of the chromosome structure that contains the DNA comprising the genes of human beings.

According to the The Telegraph, among other news outlets, scientists in China have introduced human genes into a herd of cows whose milk contains some of the same properties as breast milk: higher fat content and two human proteins, lysozyme and lactoferrin, which help babies» immune systems.

The human genome contains some 20,000 - 25,000 protein - coding genes, which is surprisingly similar to the number of genes in worms and flies.

A byproduct of the discovery of RNAi was the finding that although cells in the human body only contain one strand of RNA, they do have micro-RNA — tiny sections of RNA that can act a little like double - stranded RNA and also silence the activity of certain genes.

There are innumerable different viruses, but the human adenovirus 5, which normally causes the symptoms of a typical cold, has substantial advantages: Its genome can be replaced completely by an artificial one which contains only «useful» genes.

These retroviral gene sequences make up about 8 per cent of the human genome, and are part of what is called non-coding DNA because they don't contain genetic instructions to make proteins.

The vector then unloads its genetic material containing the therapeutic human gene into the target cell.

By the late 1970s Boyer's company, Genentech, was churning out insulin for diabetics using Escherichia coli modified to contain a synthetic human gene.

The AcrA - PPMO also was effective against the human pathogens Klebsiella pneumoniae and Salmonella enterica, since those bacteria contain the same efflux pump with a matching gene sequence, Dr. Greenberg said.

In early 2009, a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus appeared in humans, containing a unique combination of influenza genes which had not previously been identified in animals or people.

The second locus significantly correlated with severe CCD was on chromosome 11, the same chromosome that contains a gene thought to increase the risk of schizophrenia in humans.

However, the chimpanzee Y chromosome appears to have undergone more changes in the number of genes and contains a different amount of repetitive elements compared to the human or gorilla.

The human genome, considered as a mass, contains more retrovirus sequences than actual genes.

However, all regions of the human brain have molecular signatures very similar to those of our primate relatives, yet some regions contain distinctly human patterns of gene activity that mark the brain's evolution and may contribute to our cognitive abilities, a new Yale - led study has found.

This will cover a pilot project in a small region — about 1/1000 of the human genome — containing the genes for the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), proteins that present snippets of pathogens to immune cells.

The human genome contains around three meters of DNA, of which only about two per cent contains genes that code for proteins.

After exploiting a technology that allowed them to activate each of nearly 16,000 genes individually in human melanoma cell lines containing mutant BRAF, the authors then treated the panel of cells with the drugs and monitored which cells showed altered drug sensitivity.

The human genome — the sum total of hereditary information in a person — contains a lot more than the protein - coding genes teenagers learn about in school, a massive international project has found.

Researchers spent nearly four years trying to identify the location of the Sr35 gene in the wheat genome, which contains nearly two times more genetic information than the human genome.

COLD SPRING HARBOR, NEW YORK — Even though a draft sequence of the human genome is nearing completion, biologists still have widely varied estimates of how many genes it contains.

Human chromosomes each contain a single piece of DNA, with the genes arranged in a linear fashion along its length.

Consistent with that result, the researchers found that certain regions of the X chromosome in human female B cells, including regions that contain immunity - related genes, were expressed at higher levels than male cells.

This belief never wavered, even when geneticists realized that only about 2 percent of the DNA in human cells actually contains genes that make proteins.

They also say they are concerned about the antibiotic resistance marker gene that the wheat contains, and assert that the researchers «are openly releasing a synthetic version of a compound that... has had no long - term health safety tests whatsoever for human consumption, or for its impacts on non-target species.»

Andrechek's federally funded study looked at mice containing all subtypes and compared the makeup of the rodent tumors and the way the genes acted, known as gene expression, to human tumor data.

The Neurospora genome contains 10,000 genes, far less than the estimated 30,000 or so that humans have, but comparable to that of the fruit fly Drosophila, which has 14,000.

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.

The human genome contains about 3 billion base pairs, but only about 2 percent of these base pairs represent protein - coding genes, meaning that whole - exome sequencing measures the genetic alterations focused on a small but very important fraction of the genome (as opposed to techniques of whole genome sequencing, which measures every nucleotide across the entire genome, regardless of whether these genes are expressed or silent).

If stretched out and strung together, strands from a human cell would span about five feet, yet less than six inches of it would contain genes.

Among its findings: The platypus» genome is two thirds the size of the human genome and contains 18,500 genes.

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.

The first step was to insert an artificial chromosome containing the cumbersome human antibody gene into the nucleus of a cow cell.

In the animal studies, mice containing the gene expressing human resistin and infected with a parasitic worm similar to the human hookworm experienced excessive inflammation, leading to increased weight loss and other symptoms.

One is that mitochondrial replacement is no big deal because mitochondria contain just 37 of the 23,000 or so human genes.

Based on the six other published mammalian genomes (human, chimpanzee, mouse, rat, dog and cow), the sequencers estimated that the feline genome contained some 20,000 genes.

The more powerful one occurred within a stretch of DNA, or locus, that contains the HCP5 gene, which codes for a human endogenous retrovirus — a genetic fossil of a virus that wove itself into human chromosomes long ago but no longer produces infectious progeny.

The human genome contains around 20,000 genes, by refining CRISPR - Cas9 technology and using it to screen the leukemia genome the team uncovered a catalogue of approximately 500 genes that are essential for cancer cell survival, including more than 200 genes for which drugs could be designed.

The lab - grown brain, about the size of a pencil eraser, has an identifiable structure and contains 99 percent of the genes present in the human fetal brain.

The analysis also found that a significant fraction of tumors contained rearrangements and mutations of a gene called PREX2, and experiments confirmed that cancer - associated mutations of PREX2 promoted the growth of human melanoma cells in mice.

The human body consists of about 20 trillion living cells, each containing about 23,000 genes.

The same effect was seen in a mouse model of human brain cancer containing this gene fusion.

The transcriptional repressor (CRISPRi) library contains 10 sgRNAs for each transcription start site in those 15,977 human genes.

The activator (CRISPRa) sgRNA library uses the sunCas9 system and contains 10 sgRNAs for each transcription start site in 15,977 human genes.

The mouse genome contains about 30,000 genes, and so probably does the human genome.

This entire collection of genes is called the genome and contains the instructions for making and sustaining a human being.