Sentences with phrase «entire gene families»

In the cobra's genome, entire gene families were repurposed to help produce a sophisticated, highly toxic mix of proteins and peptides that kept changing as prey evolved mechanisms to elude it.

We still don't know enough about how these molecules influence specific genes, entire gene families, or biochemical reaction pathways.

Not exact matches

They are eliminating the entire family from the gene pool.

For a long time, Daly says she «naively» assumed that, once one family member knew whether or not they carried genes linked to breast and ovarian cancers — known as BRCA1 / 2 — their entire family would understand the result, and what it meant for their own genetic risk.

Optogenetics works by inserting the gene of a light - sensitive protein into live neurons, from a single cell to an entire family of them.