Sentences with phrase «expression of specific genes»

Further, the new paper shows that injected miRNAs knock down expression of specific genes in zygotes.

As noted earlier, senolytic drugs are only able to effectively kill senescent cells while sparing normal cells because senescent cells are much more reliant than healthy cells on the activity or expression of specific genes involved in cell survival.

An international team led by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a new technique for identifying gene enhancers — sequences of DNA that act to amplify the expression of a specific gene — in the genomes of humans and other mammals.

SEATTLE — Apparently ending several years of uncertainty, an official of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) revealed here today that the government intends to grant patents on expressed sequence tags (ESTs), human DNA sequences of up to a few hundred base pairs in length that can be used to identify and detect the expression of specific genes.

The Arid1b protein (green) induces this state by regulating the expression of specific genes.

If so, the results from our study will be useful for improving approaches to manipulate or modulate the levels of gene expression — which would be extremely useful for studying and treating those diseases that we know are caused by the expression of specific genes,» concluded Guigó.

The next step is to screen for drugs that can promote or quell the expression of specific genes.

The expression of specific genes in a particular root cell determine its fate — the zone in which it will function, Subramanian explained, so he is identifying which micro-RNAs direct gene expression to achieve this differentiation.

The most common way to turn a gene on or off is by using proteins called transcription factors that bind to and regulate the expression of a specific gene.

To understand how that works in memory formation or other brain functions, Konermann needed tools to manipulate the expression of specific genes in the brain in reversible fashion.

For instance, scientists can use techniques like stereotaxic surgery to manipulate the expression of specific genes in the brain and directly test the impact on learning.

Researchers were manipulating the expression of specific genes inside cells to treat «everything from baldness to cancer,» he recalled.

That's why it is critical to understand enhancers, short sections of non-coding DNA that regulate the expression of specific genes.