Sentences with phrase «faulty version of a gene»

The culprit was a faulty version of a gene that makes pores which allow chloride ions in and out of cells.

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A year later, researchers corrected the faulty gene in lab - grown lung cells and felt it wouldn't be long before gene therapy could be used to implant correct versions of the gene into people with CF.

But when physiologist H. Lee Sweeney of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia and his colleagues put this faulty gene into embryonic quail muscle cells growing in lab dishes, the cells made a shortened version of the protein and incorporated it into their contractile machinery.

Men who carry a faulty version of the BRCA2 gene have an estimated one - in - 15 chance of developing breast cancer by the time they reach 70.

And he's focusing on faulty (mutated) versions of a gene called JAK2.