Sentences with phrase «equipped with a gene»

Anthony A. James of the University of California, Irvine says that the disease - carrying Anopheles mosquito species that he and his colleagues have equipped with gene drives are self - limiting.

Once equipped with the gene (taken from pond algae), the neurons fired when exposed to light pulses.

«Dangerous bacteria found after sewer spills: Bacteria equipped with genes that can transfer antibiotic resistance adds to a sewage spill's public health threat.»

The males are equipped with genes that cause any female offspring they sire to die while they are still in the larval stage, before they have had a chance to reproduce.

Moreover, Boothby showed that yeast and bacteria artificially equipped with the genes could also survive dehydration, suggesting that they could potentially be transferred into crops to help them survive drought.

Several years ago, a group of medical entomologists at Johns Hopkins University created a strain of Anopheles stephensi (a mosquito that bites rodents) equipped with a gene called SM1 that makes the mosquitoes resistant to infection with Plasmodium berghei, a rodent malaria parasite.

Cells equipped with a gene whose activity is driven by blue light were used to help diabetic mice control glucose levels.

Not exact matches

The team found that humans are equipped with tiny differences in a particular regulator of gene activity, dubbed HARE5, that when introduced into a mouse embryo, led to a 12 % bigger brain than in the embryos treated with the HARE5 sequence from chimpanzees.

John March of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and his team took the bacterium Lactobacillus gasseri, which is found in some probiotic yogurts, and equipped it with a human gene for a hormone called glucagon - like peptide - 1.

In 2010, the environment ministry put on hold the commercial planting of GM brinjal, an eggplant variety, equipped with a bacterial gene that thwarts insect pests.

Bacteria lacking them to start with can simply borrow them (via horizontal transfer of genes) from those that are better equipped.

In 1979, researchers produced a synthetic human growth hormone in the lab, using bacteria equipped with human hormone genes.

But not a single country had yet approved cultivation of a major food crop equipped with new genes.

And because one widely discussed application is to introduce gene drive — modified mosquitoes in malaria - prone developing countries, the academies cautions against doing so until the countries involved are equipped with the expertise and infrastructure to deal with these trials.

The cells will be genetically altered to equip them with a correct copy of the defective gene.

The team showed only that yeast equipped with human genes could survive, not that they were vigorous and could compete with unaltered strains, cautions Eugene Koonin, an evolutionary biologist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland.

Unusually, many of its genes code for proteins that help shuttle materials into or out of the cell, which marks the bacterium as a generalist equipped to deal with a broad range of soil conditions and food sources.

Of interest are the bacteria species equipped with arsenate reductase genes.

We are also equipped with advanced imaging system technology offering non-invasive longitudinal monitoring of disease progression, cell trafficking and gene expression patterns in relevant models using non-virulent mycobacteria tagged with bioluminescense genes.

If they equipped the bacteria with a segment of DNA that is known to be bad — say a gene that causes blindness — they could send the bacteria in to seek out the bad gene, where the bacteria would find it and assassinate it.

We have inserted our improved versions of the ATP8 gene, equipped with our specialized mitochondrial tagging system, into the nuclear genome.

Capecchi had equipped the target gene with «stop» codes that kept the mutation turned off until he gave the mice an enzyme that snipped out the code and allowed the mutation to become active.

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