Sentences with phrase «develop new gene»

«There's an ongoing need to develop new gene synthesis techniques,» said Calin Plesa, a UCLA postdoctoral research fellow and co-first author of the paper.

The new Salk tool, called CasRx, opens up the vast potential of RNA and proteins to genetic engineering, giving researchers a powerful way to develop new gene therapies as well as investigate fundamental biological functions.

A Glaxo vet heads over to Genenta to help develop new gene therapy.

Dartmouth Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (iQBS) researchers developed a new gene expression analysis approach for identifying cancer genes.

The researchers propose that the rapid evolution and wholesale remodeling of the Y chromosome in both species have been caused by several mechanisms, including the competitive advantage gained by developing new genes for sperm production.

Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a new gene therapy that might help combat multiple sclerosis

Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a new gene therapy that shows promise in fighting multiple sclerosis (MS).

Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a new gene therapy that might help combat multiple sclerosis (Credit: < a href ="https://depositphotos.com/45812893/stock-photo-man-using-his-wheelchair.html" rel="nofollow"> minervastock / Depositphotos )

Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a new gene therapy that might help combat multiple sclerosis (Credit: minervastock / Depositphotos)

Researchers have developed a new gene editing tool that is more efficient and easier to use.

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• Myonexus Therapeutics, a New Albany, Oh. - based clinical - stage biotechnology company developing transformative gene therapies for limb - girdle muscular dystrophies, raised $ 2.5 million in seed funding.

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By invalidating key parts of Myriad's patents, the court has removed a bar that prevented labs using new technology from developing and selling broader one - time tests that search for all known cancer risks, including the BRCA genes, geneticists said.

«Testing of new rice varieties that have the SPIKE gene is under way in multilocation trials across several developing countries in Asia, including Indonesia.

We believe that these will contribute to food security in these areas once the new varieties are released,» said Dr. Tsutomu Ishimaru (in photo above), an IRRI and JIRCAS rice breeder who is now leading the work to develop new varieties with the SPIKE gene.

«Using a new approach of combining molecular identification of the SPIKE gene and conventional breeding, we have developed rice, with the SPIKE gene, that has higher yield when compared with an equivalent rice without the gene,» Dr. Kobayashi said.

«Rice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRRI.

The EC has historically supported IRRI's work to conserve the genetic diversity of rice, understand the function of rice genes, and develop new rice varieties, particularly for use in difficult growing environments.

We've been hearing about better male birth control for years now, but in recent weeks two new promising options have come to light: RISUG (reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance), being developed by an Indian scientist, Sujoy Guh, and the discovery of a gene, Katnal1, critical for sperm production; if scientists can tweak the gene with a pill, sperm production will be stalled.

And researchers generally shied away from clinical research on any patented genes — a 2003 survey found that 53 percent of genetics labs decided not to develop a new genetic test because of a patent or license.

Michael Kaplitt, a neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, whose lab develops gene therapies for brain disorders, teamed up with Greengard and other colleagues in the new stuNew York, whose lab develops gene therapies for brain disorders, teamed up with Greengard and other colleagues in the new stunew study.

An international team led by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a new technique for identifying gene enhancers — sequences of DNA that act to amplify the expression of a specific gene — in the genomes of humans and other mammals.

A genetics research team at Johns Hopkins Medicine has solved a dilemma facing researchers who use genomewide association studies (GWAS) by developing a new approach that strategically «filters» which genes are worth further study.

As well as understanding the implications of finding this new variant of the botulism gene cluster in a non-clostridial species of gut bacterium, the team are interested in exploring how it might help in developing new treatments for diseases.

In 2006, Paul Greengard, a neuroscientist at the Rockefeller University in New York, and his colleagues created mutant mice lacking the gene, and found that the animals developed depression - like behaviours.

As in a game of telephone, each time a gene gets passed from one microbe to another, slight differences develop that reflect the DNA dialect of its new host.

Using a modified version of the CRISPR genome - editing system, MIT researchers have developed a new way to screen for genes that protect against specific diseases.

«Neuroscientists are using these new gene - editing and molecular tools to develop potential therapeutic targets across multiple disease fronts.»

«Fibroblast growth factor receptor inhibitors are new therapies being developed in clinical trials for patients whose cancer cells have genetic alterations in this family of genes,» says Roychowdhury, a member of the OSUCCC — James Translational Therapeutics Program.

Moreno's first job in the lab — helping a postdoc develop a mutagenesis technique to identify new genes involved in organ development and positioning — earned him a second - author paper in Science just a couple of years into his Ph.D..

To discover this, Hui Liu, Gene Robinson, and Eric Jakobsson of the University of Illinois developed new computational tools to analyze patterns of gene conservation across a wide range of animals, for genes activated and inhibited in the honey bee brain by exposure to a chemical communication signal that triggers alGene Robinson, and Eric Jakobsson of the University of Illinois developed new computational tools to analyze patterns of gene conservation across a wide range of animals, for genes activated and inhibited in the honey bee brain by exposure to a chemical communication signal that triggers algene conservation across a wide range of animals, for genes activated and inhibited in the honey bee brain by exposure to a chemical communication signal that triggers alarm.

A team of 18 University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center researchers has developed a new tool to analyze an often overlooked aspect of cancer genetics — an alteration that results in the loss or gain in a copy of a gene.

A team of researchers at the University of Central Florida is using breakthrough gene - editing technology to develop a new screening tool for Parkinson's disease, a debilitating degenerative disorder of the nervous system.

James Adjaye, a biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Germany, says that further work needs to be done before scientists can be sure that the genes found in the new work are actually indicate that an embryo will develop into a baby.

«If this approach works in humans, it will really change the conversation that providers have with patients,» Scadden said, especially for those «who have these underlying genetic disorders and for who the new gene - editing and gene therapy techniques are being developed.»

«Genetics researchers close in on schizophrenia: 50 new gene regions that increase risk of developing schizophrenia.»

Although the researchers suspected that having more copies of the gene sequence might confer a greater degree of resistance, they had no way of testing their suspicions before the new assay was developed.

The findings point to a possible new risk factor for developing celiac disease in people with celiac disease risk genes.

The number of copies of the resistance gene varies among cultivars; a new method, developed by University of Illinois researchers, is able to efficiently quantify this variation for the first time.

The developing brain undergoes rapid and tightly coordinated changes in a molecular process known to help regulate gene activity, a new study shows.

Gene variants common in people of Asian and European ancestry, for instance, make them more prone than those of African origin to developing severe dengue shock syndrome, according to a new study in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

For example, genetically engineered organisms used in the research laboratory to develop new chemical synthesis methods are not likely to require the same level of public dialogue as products that have more uncertainty associated with them, such as organisms with gene drives, which enhance organisms» ability to pass certain genetic traits on to their offspring.

For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.

«This is a seminal step in identifying key pathways and molecules involved in kidney cancer so that specific therapies that target these new genes can be developed to treat this cancer.»

In addition, using methods for the analysis of regulatory networks developed by the Califano lab in the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Systems Biology, the researchers identified a number of transcription factors (gene regulators) that have the potential to mimic the environmental signals that trigger papillae to induce new hair growth.

Lisa Harris, of Dalton High School in New York City, won this year's top Siemens prize for individuals — a $ 100,000 college scholarship — for developing a new method to detect carriers of a gene responsible for cystic fibrosNew York City, won this year's top Siemens prize for individuals — a $ 100,000 college scholarship — for developing a new method to detect carriers of a gene responsible for cystic fibrosnew method to detect carriers of a gene responsible for cystic fibrosis.

The study was inspired in part by the complex effects of a new melanoma drug developed by the biotech companies Plexxikon and Roche that blocks a protein made by a mutated gene called BRAF.

Women with a family history of two or more immediate family members (mother, sister, daughter) with breast or ovarian cancer or with a positive genetic test for mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes may be advised to consider having both breasts removed, because they are at high risk of a new cancer developing in the other breast.

For one such project, the team developed a new software tool called GppFst that allows researchers to differentiate genetic drift — a neutral process whereby genes and gene sequences naturally change due to random mating within a population — from genetic variations that are indicative of evolutionary changes caused by natural selection.

First author Professor Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Director of Institute of Experimental Genetics at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, who invented the mouse clinic concept, said: «Our findings with regard to the genes examined are now available to the scientific community as a valid data set, which can be downloaded free of charge from the IMPC (International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium) website, and form an excellent basis on which we and other research groups can develop and test new hypotheses.»