Sentences with phrase «doing genetic research»

Eddie Murphy stars as Professor Sherman Klump, a pleasant but hugely corpulent university professor doing genetic research into metabolism and weight loss.

Luckily, DNA is pretty much the same whether it's in a monkey, bacteria or a corn plant, so when I got tired of doing research on things that screamed when you cut them, I turned to doing genetic research on plants.

Firstly, as someone who did genetic research for 8 years (for the USDA, 3 universities, and a private organization), it doesn't take 12 hours to get a DNA match.

Not exact matches

Research being done surrounding CRISPR Cas9 and genetic engineering are also showing numerous potential ways to increase human lifespan.

Now that more people are doing fundamental genetic research into personality traits, this lends more credibility and credence to what we're saying.

A child conceived from artificial insemination by donor does not face the same situation as would a child having no biological and genetic father at all, but perhaps there are important similarities that could be uncovered through research.

«I don't want to ban or abandon [genetic engineering] research, but move it off the side of the stage.»

It's all a work in progress and even though research shows there are things you can do to help a kid be less picky (and research also shows there's genetic component to it all) nothing replaces the work of exposing kids in a pleasant atmosphere over the years.

A 4 - year - old who asks about his genetic condition won't understand the neuroscience behind his disability and a 10 - year - old doesn't need to know about all the latest medical research behind why he takes a certain medication.

Although scientists still don't precisely understand the interactions among genetic, environmental, psychological, and developmental factors, research suggests that high anxiety tends to run in families.

A large - scale genetic study published in The Lancet in 2012 found no relationship between gene variants that increased HDL and the likelihood of heart attack (though this research did not evaluate the SCARB1 variants).

Researchers from several institutions, including, UCLA, Boston University, Stanford University and the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife, analyzed blood samples from nearly 10,000 people to find that genetic markers in the gene responsible for keeping telomeres (tips of chromosomes) youthfully longer, did not translate into a younger biologic age as measured by changes in proteins coating the DNA.

By exploiting new molecular and genetic insights, the research, done in collaboration with Pierre de Wit from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands, provides a better understanding of the defense system of crop plants against the damaging pathogens that grow in the spaces between plant cells.

The massive repository of genetic material is poised to advance research — just don't bother asking for your samples back

«I thought, «I don't believe this»,» says Spector, who conducts genetic research in twins.

Thresher, with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Hobart, Tasmania, has a genetic trick to do it.

She did her master's degree research project at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB), also in Warsaw, looking at the effect of genetic mutations on the function of an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of heme, using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism.

«Fascinating genetic studies had been done on SMCHD1 that linked the gene to FSHD2, a rare muscular dystrophy involving the interaction of multiple genetic sites, but it had never been connected to craniofacial abnormalities,» says Michael Talkowski, PhD, of the MGH Center for Human Genetic Research, co-senior author of the Nature Geneticsgenetic studies had been done on SMCHD1 that linked the gene to FSHD2, a rare muscular dystrophy involving the interaction of multiple genetic sites, but it had never been connected to craniofacial abnormalities,» says Michael Talkowski, PhD, of the MGH Center for Human Genetic Research, co-senior author of the Nature Geneticsgenetic sites, but it had never been connected to craniofacial abnormalities,» says Michael Talkowski, PhD, of the MGH Center for Human Genetic Research, co-senior author of the Nature GeneticsGenetic Research, co-senior author of the Nature Genetics paper.

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

A recent report on genome editing from the National Academies did not call for a moratorium on research into germline editing, arguing that it might one day be a way for some parents to have healthy, biological children, such as when both mother and father carry genetic mutations that cause severe diseases.

Hungary's Medical Research Council (ETT), which advises the government on health policy, has asked public prosecutors to investigate a genetic - diagnostic company that certified that a member of parliament did not have Roma or Jewish heritage.

«For women who do not have a strong family history or a genetic finding, we would argue it's probably not appropriate to get the unaffected breast removed,» says Hawley, who is also a research investigator at the Ann Arbor VA Center of Excellence in Clinical Care Management Research and a member of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innresearch investigator at the Ann Arbor VA Center of Excellence in Clinical Care Management Research and a member of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and InnResearch and a member of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.

Not only did her research lay the groundwork for effective genetic counseling, but she also developed the first prenatal test for the disease.

Any proposal to do germline genetic manipulation should be very carefully considered by international regulatory bodies before it should be considered as a serious research prospect.

More research will need to be done comparing genomes from closely related species inhabiting high altitudes and lowland environments to further explore the genetic foundation of these adaptations.

«We live in an era of evidence - based medicine,» she says, so for her profession to mature, «it's becoming increasingly important for us to be doing research into understanding what the effects are of providing genetic counseling.»

«I wish I had five parallel lives so that one of me could see patients, and one of me could teach and educate, and one of me could do research about genetic counseling.

«The type of research I did brought me into contact with a lot of families with genetic conditions and their clinical geneticists, and I became increasingly interested in the impact of the monogenic disorders in families,» Kenwrick says.

I was very fortunate that I received training in genetic epidemiology as part of my master's degree at Fu Wai Hospital; that work proved to be very helpful for the research I've been doing here.

Recent research, however, looks beyond the genetic code to «epigenetic effects,» which do not involve changes in the genes themselves, but rather in how they are expressed to determine one's characteristics.

That paper, which appeared in the journal Critical Reviews in Toxicology, reviewed the IARC findings and concluded the scientific research didn't support claims that glyphosate posed a risk of genetic toxicity.

There have been studies suggesting that there is a genetic element to homosexuality in women, but more research has been done in men, says Sanders.

There is much more future work to be done and further improvements are still needed, but this research represents one small step closer to a possible treatment for this devastating genetic disease.

They do social science, health, philosophical, policy, or legal research on topics such as privacy, confidentiality, the psychological impact of genetic information, informed - consent issues in genomics research, commercialization of genetic products, genetically modified foods, behavioral genetics, gene testing, and gene therapy.

Other ancient DNA studies have been discredited after supposedly ancient genetic material turned out to be modern contaminants, but those fears don't apply to this new research, says micropaleontologist Michal Kucera of the University of Bremen in Germany.

Jessica Hamzelou reports genetic research on a family that doesn't feel pain (23/30 December 2017, p 14).

Vtor A. P. Martins dos Santos of the German Research Center for Biotechnology and his colleagues broke the marine organism's genome into more than 3 million base pairs and then pieced them together into a complete genetic map.

The Genetic Edge's Binns, who also published a research paper laying claim to the myostatin finding about a year after Hill did, says half of the 10 or so Kentucky Derby winners his company tested had two copies of the sprint version of the myostatin gene.

The next step is to ensure that these kind of genetic modifications don't negatively affect plants, said Mads Torry - Smith, director of research and development in the biomass applications division of Novozymes, who was not involved in the study.

These differences in their genetic makeup are an indication that urban life does impact the evolutionary trajectory of a species, write researchers at Martin Luther University and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle - Leipzig - Jena in the current issue of the renowned journal «Proceedings of the Royal Society B».

Past GWAS research has led to breakthroughs for other health conditions with tangled genetic and environmental roots, such as diabetes and Crohn's disease, and experts believe that this study will do the same for schizophrenia.

A number of scientific results suggest a biological basis for sexual orientation, but these results do not point to one simple biological or genetic explanation.2 Perhaps the best recent reviews of the scientific research relevant to this issue are found in a special issue of the journal Frontiers of Neuroendocrinology, the official journal of the International Neuroendocrine Federation and the American Neuroendocrine Society, that was published in April 2011.3 The papers in the special issue make clear that substantial evidence exists in animals for biological bases of sexual partner preference based on sex.

After doing a genetic epidemiology research project at McGill, looking at whether family members of head and neck cancer patients had an increased risk of the disease (and finding the topic fascinating), she went to the University of Washington (U.W.) in Seattle to earn a master's degree in epidemiology.

Nichols and Kesserwan emphasize the research study does not take the place of clinical genetic testing or counseling.

«This agreement is a part of deCODE's ongoing strategy to unleash the value of human genetics,» said Kari Stefansson, founder and CEO of deCODE, «our research platform allows us to understand the genetic basis of disease and modifiers of clinical phenotypes in actual patient populations; by doing so, we can rapidly move from targets to patient stratification and from there to companion diagnostics.»

In the next phase of the research, Hill will expose house finches to the blindness bacterium — Mycoplasma gallisepticum — and Edwards and Hess will examine the genetic differences between birds who get sick and those who don't.

«It started with patients that were suspected to have Kleefstra syndrome, but didn't have the genetic mutation for it,» said Kramer who is also a Canada Research Chair in Neuroepigentics.

Doug received his PhD in molecular, cellular and developmental biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and did postdoctoral research in plant genetic engineering at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge England.

Dr Benjamin King, who also led the research at the MDI Biological Laboratory, a not - for - profit research institution, said: «We didn't expect the patterns of genetic expression to be vastly different in the three species, but it was amazing to see that they were consistently the same.»

However, the remainder do not yet have a genetic explanation and are a focus of our research.