Sentences with phrase «different immune system genes»
When the t - shirt wearer and sniffer had very different immune system genes from each other the t - shirts were rated as smelling very attractive or very sexy even.
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Instead, extra genes picked up by some pathogens can cause different strains to have wildly different effects on the immune system, even in the same person, researchers report January 11 in PLOS Pathogens.
Women prefer the smell of T - shirts worn by men whose major histocompatability complex genes — which encode the proteins that make up an important part of our immune system — are different from their own, and vice versa.
It is surprising to find that a single gene (ESRP), through its ancestral biological role (cell adherence and motility) has been used throughout the animal scale for very different purposes: from the immune system of an echinoderm to the lips, lungs or inner ears of humans,» states professor Jordi Garcia - Fernàndez, of the University of Barcelona's Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics and the IBUB.
Scientists have suspected that, like cells in the immune system, olfactory neurons diversify through recombination — that is, each cell randomly shuffles its DNA so it carries a slightly different version of the same gene.
Research from NC State shows how common immune systems in microbes can be co-opted to turn different genes off at will.
If the genes undergo internal reshuffling, the proteins change and each generation of bacteria presents a different appearance to the immune system, as if the bacteria were changing clothes, or donning hats and dark glasses.
The first step in assessing our hypotheses will be to compare the Black - footed Ferret's genome with that of the domestic ferret in order to identify which genes in the immune system are different.