Sentences with phrase «dormant genes»

It could also be if you've been heavy for a long time there's enzymes that need to be made from scratch and waking up the dormant genes can take some doing and time.

They do this by reactivating dormant genes associated with pluripotency — a primitive state in which a cell has the potential to become any cell type in the body.

Gene - activating CRISPR / Cas9, known as CRISPRa, could be used to turn on dormant genes for treating a variety of diseases.

He is interested in reactivating dormant genes or changing the regulation of active genes in embryos to bring back ancestral traits that have been lost in evolution.

Many, many, many changes in our physiology that can attributed to environmental factors that can rewrite our DNA, or at least trigger dormant genes or not.

We are evolving Many, many, many changes in our physiology that can attributed to environmental factors that can rewrite our DNA, or at least trigger dormant genes or not.

With respect to antibiotic resistance, this novelty can be induced and we can trace the novelty to particular mutations arising absent gene transfer; i.e. the genes which give rise the resistance were not present prior to the mutation, they are new sequences and not simply the activation of dormant genes.

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Can we learn to trigger dormant entrepreneurship genes?

Recent research clearly indicates that in some cases, environment triggers genetic tendencies, that certain situations trigger genes that would otherwise lie dormant.

They aimed to extract ancient DNA from organisms trapped in amber to sequence extinct genes, recover dormant life forms and study protein evolution.

Epigenetics refers to how certain life circumstances can cause genes to be silenced or expressed, become dormant or active, over time.

The round body is a dormant stage that has all the genes and can start growing again, like a fungal spore.

In the region surrounding the bead, the Barx - 1 gene — required for the development of molars — was dormant, evidence that BMP4 inhibits molar growth.

«It appears that the «Delay of Germination 1,» or DOG1, gene is an environmental sensor, detecting environmental changes and enabling the plant to not only keep the seed dormant but to also delay flowering,» said study co-author Kent Bradford, a plant scientist and director of the Seed Biotechnology Center.

The dream of constructing a tree of life that connects the earliest bacteria to modern life has come a step closer with the first «resurrection» of part of a gene that has lain dormant for at least 5 million years.

For a decade, the group at North Carolina has studied a large family of genes in mice called L1, some of which are dormant.

This image shows how transferred genes activate the stem cell properties of normally dormant retinal cells.

One gene in the critical region of chromosome 1 encodes an enzyme called RNase L; the L stands for latent because in healthy cells the enzyme lies dormant.

The first reports that gene - editing of bone marrow stem cells in monkeys infected with a variant of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) significantly reduces the number of dormant «viral reservoirs» that pose a risk of reactivation.

To study which genes are active and which are dormant, they use the brute repetition of sequencing steps to capture an adequate number of messenger RNA sequences, which are transcribed from switched - on genes.

A number of studies have shown that random fluctuations in microbial genes trigger some microbes to hunker down into a dormant, drug - resistant state.

The gene remains completely dormant and harmless in a mouse's cell until it is «armed» by the activation of the key senescence gene, p16INK / 4a, which rarely occurs except in senescent cells.

I have always believed that all skin conditions are caused by a hereditary predisposition or gene, and this may well lie dormant for years without giving the person any symptoms.

However, it is lifestyle, especially the nutrition aspect of it, which establishes whether gene expression develops into illness or whether those harmful genes stay dormant.1 (See Preventing and Reversing Cancer)

Typically, a major transcription factor involved in the expression of detoxification genes known as Nrf2 remains in a dormant state in the body.

An out of nowhere terminal cancer diagnosis finds Wilson on the brink of death, which puts him on a collision course with Ajax (Ed Skrein), who offers to cure his cancer by torturing him into activating his dormant mutant gene.

Anyone who has studied genetics, even at an introductory level, knows that certain dominant genes may actually be dormant for a generation.

If it has fighting genes, they are dormant and eventually will surface.