Sentences with phrase «decades earlier that genes»

Although Muller, American physicist Leonard Troland and Russian geneticist Nikolai Koltsov had all suggested two decades earlier that genes might grow like crystals, Schrödinger's idea was far more precise.

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29 GENETICALLY MODIFIED SUPERHUMANS The debate over human germ - line engineering — reworking genes in the sperm and egg to create inheritable new traits — sputtered out early in the last decade after gene therapy had a series of notable failures.

Two studies presented at the Biology of Genomes meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, last week show how human genomes have changed over centuries or decades, charting how since Roman times the British have evolved to be taller and fairer, and how just in the last generation a gene that favors cigarette smoking led to early death in some groups.

In 1984, the Brandeis and Rockefeller groups, working separately, isolated a gene called period, which had been discovered a decade earlier after a genetic mutation in a fruit fly caused the creature to lose its ability to entrain its insect clock to a 24 - hour rhythm.

In 1984, Jeffrey Hall and Michael Rosbash at Brandeis University and Michael Young at the Rockefeller University isolated a gene called «period,» which had been discovered a decade earlier after a genetic mutation in a fruit fly caused the creature to lose its ability to entrain its insect clock to a 24 - hour rhythm.

The understanding that genetic mutations are linked to cancer is decades - old; the first human oncogenes (genes that trigger cancer) were found in the early 1980s.

George Church, a Harvard Medical School geneticist who published one of the early papers on the use of CRISPR on mammalian cells, pointed out that people in his field have been doing genetic modification for decades, and said there are already 2,000 gene therapy trials underway, none of which use CRISPR.

Then there were four groups of gene carriers: (1) those predicted to develop HD symptoms in a decade or more, (2) those predicted to develop symptoms in a few years, (3) those with early symptoms, and (4) those with more advanced symptoms.

People who carry the apoE4 gene have a much greater likelihood of acquiring Alzheimer's, and they develop the disease a decade earlier than other patients.