Sentences with phrase «discovery about a gene»

Australian researchers have made a critical discovery about a gene involved in muscular dystrophy that could lead to future therapies for the currently untreatable disease.

Australian researchers have made a critical discovery about a gene involved in muscular dystrophy that could lead to future therapies for the untreatable disease.

Researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new computational method to study the function of disease - causing genes, starting with an important new discovery about a gene associated with malaria — one of the biggest global health burdens.

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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.

The recent Lancet Breastfeeding Series refers to new discoveries being made about breastmilk — such as its role in gene expression — so it can be expected that Nestle will use the strategy of launching «new improved» formulas that are «closer to breastmilk» for decades to come (Nestle is currently investing heavily in epigentics research).

Researchers still have much to learn about the imprinting process and the genes involved, Zhang says, but the discovery of a second mechanism for silencing one copy of these genes underscores imprinting's importance.

«We are very excited about the prospect of using these more physiologically relevant cell - based models for gene and small molecule drug discoveries,» says Dr. Andrew Liu, Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Memphis.

Surprises include the discovery of about 20 eukaryotic genes; other bacteria that have been sequenced have had few, if any, such genes.

These discoveries build upon previous findings about genes linked to Alzheimer's, such as the APOE - 4 gene, which is a powerful marker for late - onset Alzheimer's disease; about 40 percent of those diagnosed have this DNA variant.

Mi - Prostate Score developed from a discovery in the lab of Arul Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D., in 2005 of a genetic anomaly that occurs in about half of all prostate cancers, an instance of two genes changing places and fusing together.

«Our discovery about the ROC40 protein suggests that it may be increasing the expression of genes involved in the synthesis of oil in microalgae,» Rathinasabapathi said.

The discoveries of these proteins and genes have the potential to address a wide range of critical agricultural problems in the future, including the limited availability of water for crops, the need to increase water use efficiency in lawns as well as crops and concerns among farmers about the impact heat stress will have in their crops as global temperatures and CO2 levels continue to rise.

Although these mutations are relatively rare, their discovery, reported in the January issue of Nature Genetics, could help point the way to other genes behind inherited epilepsies, which are thought to account for about 40 % of all forms of the disease.

New discoveries about the rules governing how genes encode proteins have revealed nature's sophisticated «programming» for protecting life from catastrophic errors while accelerating evolution

In an era of free love and violent protests, about 100 people danced on the grass, enacting one of the greatest discoveries of the century: how the ribosome translates genes from DNA into proteins.

This collection of marine microbial genomic, the first in the world on a global scale, will provide new clues about a reservoir of biodiversity yet to explore, considering that it could imply the discovery of tens of millions of new genes in the coming years.

The same discovery raises questions about the one - of - a-kind gene that features two distinct proteins that participate in two distinct functions.

Belyea said that the discovery about the important role of the S1P1 gene may one day lead to better treatments for that condition.

Kidney research at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has unexpectedly led to a discovery about the formation of the heart, including the identification of a gene responsible for a deadly cardiac condition.

What is exciting about these findings is that «now we have a handle on the genes that comprise a universal toolkit for building stomata,» Bergmann explained, «plants apparently use the same common parts, but the ways these parts function and interact with each other are different, which is both interesting from a discovery science perspective and could be harnessed to improve growth performance in grasses that humans use for food or fuel.»

Genetic Roulette discusses the complexities in the way genes may interact within the entire organism, and new discoveries about how genes interact with one another in regulatory networks inside the plant.

CRI presents the Coley Award to Thierry Boon, for the isolation of genes responsible for mutation - induced production of cancer antigens by T cells, and to Rolf M. Zinkernagel, for landmark discoveries about MHC restriction of T cell recognition.

He used the GM method to make discoveries about what regulates gene expression in GM plants, and about plant transposable DNA.

Awareness about 2 important publications from IMPC consortium 1 - The analysis of IMPC database that uncovers 360 new human disease models has just been published: Meehan et al., (2017) Disease model discovery from 3,328 gene knockouts by The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium.

For the first time, it brings together all the relevant biological, chemical, pharmacological and eventually clinical data about important genes and proteins in every type of cancer in a way that greatly aids the discovery of new drugs.

Before the discovery, scientists only knew about the existence of 13 genes that determine hair color.

Despite many recent discoveries about the genetics of ALS, the etiology of sporadic ALS remains largely unknown with gene - environment interaction suspected as a driver.

But the most exciting recent discoveries about placebos show their effects are moderated by differences in the genes that control chemical messaging systems in the brain.

Stanford University About Blog The Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) provides comprehensive integrated biological information for the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae along with search and analysis tools to explore these data, enabling the discovery of functional relationships between sequence and gene products in fungi and higher organisms.