Sentences with phrase «entire gene code»
In addition to specific disease research, CHF funds the gargantuan canine genome project to map the entire gene code of man's best friend.
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They isolated its entire genetic code — one chromosome that forms a circle — stripping it of all its proteins, and then added genes to make a host organism blue (to make it easy to pick out in a Petri dish) as well as resistant to the antibiotic tetracycline.
They sequenced the entire nuclear genome of this species, and identified all of the genes within that genome that code for biological functions.
The human genome contains about 3 billion base pairs, but only about 2 percent of these base pairs represent protein - coding genes, meaning that whole - exome sequencing measures the genetic alterations focused on a small but very important fraction of the genome (as opposed to techniques of whole genome sequencing, which measures every nucleotide across the entire genome, regardless of whether these genes are expressed or silent).
The branch uniting the fungi and animals is well - supported based on a number of molecular phylogenetic datasets, including the nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA gene (Wainwright et al., 1993; Bruns et al. 1993), unique and shared sequence insertions in proteins such as elongation factor 1α (Baldauf and Palmer, 1993), entire mitochondrial genomes (Lang et al., 2002), and concatenated protein - coding genes (Steenkamp et al., 2006).
Should you cut it at the beginning of the coding sequence to delete the entire gene?
The DNA we can retrieve from passenger pigeon specimens is too fragmented to reassemble the entire genomic code — but we can map the sequence of genes and gene regulating regions that are most important to creating passenger pigeon traits.
Her game - changing technology takes a mysterious bacterial genetic code and transforms it into a powerful tool for cutting and pasting bits of genetic material — meaning not only could the entire field of gene therapy be revived, but her genome - editing tool could one day be used to treat a range of diseases, from cancer and AIDS to hereditary disorders like Down syndrome and Huntington disease.
The entire coding region of the progranulin gene was deleted in the null allele.
The researchers then analyzed another 147 colorectal cancer cell lines in the same way for kinase - domain mutations in these genes, and then sequenced the entire coding region of all kinases that were mutated, in all discovering 46 new mutations.
Kmiec also said that while other CRISPR tools are restricted to editing or repairing short segments of DNA code within a single gene, his team's new CRISPR tool could lead to applications that are capable of removing and replacing entire genes.
This will include robotic DNA extraction, genome - wide mapping with high density gene chips (querying 175,000 DNA markers), and next - gen sequencing of the entire genome of an affected dog (interrogating every letter of the 2.4 billion letter genetic code).
The DNA we can retrieve from passenger pigeon specimens is too fragmented to reassemble the entire genomic code — but we can map the sequence of genes and gene regulating regions that are most important to creating passenger pigeon traits.