Sentences with phrase «different subsets of genes»

One way of thinking about what differentiates a breast cell from a heart cell is that each cell type expresses different subsets of genes.

In order for these unspecialized cells to acquire the characteristics that make a leaf cell different from a root cell or a blood cell different from a muscle cell, they must turn on different subsets of genes to produce the proteins responsible for each cell type's distinctive properties.

Not exact matches

The method is based on the knowledge that different tumors can be driven by different subsets of cancer genes.

The groups that evolved into bonobos, chimps, and humans all retained slightly different subsets of this ancestral population's diverse gene pool — and those differences now offer clues today to the size and range of diversity in that ancestral group.

Our laboratory has assembled a comprehensive set of tools for doing this, including mice with conditional ablation of the Btla gene in different subsets of immune cells.

has done some work looking at the different genes involved in differing parts of lipid metabolism, it may well be there's a subset of the population that does respond badly to saturated fat, just as there's a subset that responds well to high carb low fat diets (obviously these are not mainstream responses or we could all go home!)

In concurrent studies, the team will examine the gene expression profile of subsets of patients with different clinical outcomes to provide further insight into why certain dogs have more aggressive B - CLL and to identify possible drug targetable pathways to improve the treatment for this cancer.