Sentences with phrase «findings on all genes»

«As a result of the previous study, we reported that SUMO is probably important for controlling expression of active genes because we found it on every gene we looked at, but only when they were turned on,» notes Rosonina.

These findings on gene expression in single embryonic stem cells are in concert with recent studies of early mammalian development, which reveal molecular heterogeneity and a stochasticity of gene expression in blastomeres.

Not exact matches

The company will now be able to sell health risk reports on three variants found on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are linked with a higher risk of breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer.

But it carries genes that are found only on plasmids, and lacks any telltale virus genes.

At last year's Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego, Bergh found himself sitting at dinner with Othman Laraki, the cofounder and CEO of Color Genomics — a company that extracts the DNA from a customer's submitted saliva sample and then looks for a set number of gene mutations known to be associated with increased risk for developing certain hereditary cancers or heart conditions (depending on the test).

The primary baldness gene is found on the X chromosome.

Collaboration based on new findings from the Regeneron Genetics Center ® showing variant in HSD17B13 gene is associated with reduced risk of chronic liver diseases

It appears that the gene for cystic fibrosis is found in a narrow region on chromosome seven.

Suppose it could be shown from past letters that my father met my mother because he missed his train, and so caught the one on which he found this beautiful young woman sitting; suppose, further, that a super-computer could show that some of my genes can be traced back to a small creature scrabbling about in the Triassic mud.

And it would not be surprising if none were found, since a gay would not have a big advantage in the passing on of the gene.

And you only appear cute to your mother because of biological chemistry: her brain tricks her into finding you attractive in order to carry on her genes.

Go on, deny that it happened or find some way to pin the blame on my parents for moving to Britain or me for polluting the gene pool by marrying an Englishman.»

On the contrary, he finds it useful to ponder an array of reductionist attempts to explain the existence of religion, from that which seeks to pinpoint the area of the human brain or the specific genes connected to religiosity to that which sees religion as a malfunction of the human mind or a vestigial remnant from a primitive stage of human development suitable only for whimpering, immature dullards (a point of view championed by the new atheists).

The special type of phytonutrients found in cinnamon have an amazing ability to stabilize blood sugar levels, prevent fat - storing insulin spikes, protect the body from damaging free - radicals, and, most amazingly, actually have the ability to «turn on genes» within our body that produce highly protective anti-inflammatory substances.

A World War II veteran who lived through the invasion of Normandy on D - day, Gene returned home to Petaluma, CA to found what is now one of the most respected dairy processors in the country, and became a pillar of his community, known for his generosity to those less fortunate.

Epigeneticists have found that our cells carry a type of memory of the experiences of our ancestors — not only that, but 95 % of our genes aren't yet coded at birth, dependent on nurturing and the environment to determine their fate.

Similar mechanisms are found in human brains — caregiver behavior matters for turning genes on and off.

We confirmed this gene — environment interaction in two birth cohorts, and we ruled out alternative explanations of the finding involving gene — exposure correlation, intrauterine growth, social class, and maternal cognitive ability, as well as maternal genotype effects on breastfeeding and breast milk.

They found 118 genes that were on when they should have been off or off when they should have been on, compared with glia from healthy people.

And researchers generally shied away from clinical research on any patented genes — a 2003 survey found that 53 percent of genetics labs decided not to develop a new genetic test because of a patent or license.

Now, new research has found several rare genetic mutations on the same gene that definitively connect the two.

This study found that the interaction between these genomes and the implications on energy production is strong enough that the mitochondrial genome can alter which version of a gene is present in the nuclear genome.

Sleep - deprived people with two other variations of the gene tend to perform much more poorly on the same kinds of tasks, the researchers found.

«We wanted to find out if obesity - related genes and activity level have an interactive effect on obesity risk — if there is a «double whammy» effect of being both at genetic risk and physically inactive, beyond the additive effect of these factors,» said Dr. Wood.

In 1999 Huda Zoghbi, a specialist in pediatric neurological disorders at Baylor College of Medicine in Dallas, found that RS was likely caused by a mutation in the gene Mecp2, located on the X chromosome.

When similar analysis was performed on the db mice, it was found that the disrupted db gene was responsible for encoding a protein that functions as a leptin receptor: When it binds circulating leptin at the cell surface, it sets in motion a biochemical cascade inside the cell.

The adaptation could be pinned on six amino acid changes in one section of the squirrel gene, the team found.

«What we found is that on a molecular level, the complex I deficit is probably just the tip of the iceberg of a pervasive deficit in all energy genes.»

Before Krieger started tinkering with the mouse gene SCARB1, he had identified SRB1, a protein found on the surface of the liver cells, as that dock for HDL.

Despite the proliferation of GWAS, the associations found so far have largely failed to account for the known effects of genes on complex disease — the problem of «missing heritability.»

There he did research on the X chromosome, with hopes of someday finding the gay gene or genes themselves.

Researchers have found a pair of twins who are identical on the mom's side but who share half the genes on the father's side.

Yet, in this plant (as well as in certain conifers), the researchers found genes similar to those responsible for the formation of flowers, and which are organized according to the same hierarchy (with the activation of one gene activating the next gene, and so on)!

«CRISPR - on is a tool that will be very useful for studying many biological processes, particularly for studying gene functions and gene networks,» says Whitehead Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch.

When the researchers compared the mRNA to a library of DNA sequences taken from the dendrites of neurons by James Eberwine of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, they found that it came from a single gene on chromosome X — the human version of which, when mutated, leads to fragile - X syndrome.

All four teams focused their hunts on gene variations found in at least 10 per cent of the population, while Stefánsson thinks that rarer variants may play a more significant role in menarche.

«Scientists find new genes on male sex chromosomes.»

By dosing dogs with the gene for a myostatin precursor, Sweeney has found he can throw a wrench into the molecular machinery of myostatin signaling, removing a critical check on muscle growth and allowing deteriorating muscles to regain their strength.

After demonstrating the existence of several genes that control indefinite cell division, she, a grad student named Yi Ning, and their colleagues found a candidate for one of those genes on chromosome 4.

«As the Y chromosome evolved, it withered away, losing most of the 1000 genes that are found on today's X chromosomes.

In his «lessons learned» article, Wilson advises researchers against putting themselves in situations that might create potential financial conflicts (in 1992 Wilson had founded a biotechnology company focused on gene therapy).

The researchers found, for example, that extraversion was associated with variants in the gene WSCD2 and near gene PCDH15; neuroticism was associated with variants on chromosome 8p23.1 and gene L3MBTL2.

She found that kids in Fresno were more likely to develop asthma not due to lung damage, but because changes on the surfaces of just two genes — and likely more — altered the way their lungs worked.

They found that when the gene was on the leading strand, the polymerase gaffed the copying up to 6 times more often than when the gene was on the lagging strand.

To find out if this effect on testosterone production might affect mice's fertility, the team knocked out the gene for osteocalcin in a group of the rodents.

Together, the researchers focused on a family of genes that encode taste receptors found in fruit flies.

Previous research has found a link between the AKT1 gene and people who have gone on to develop psychosis.

There's no way to cram the dystrophin gene into a virus to do traditional replacement gene therapy, but researchers have found that turning on other genes can compensate and bulk up muscles.

Bloch's colleagues at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences tested the oils in gene expression studies on lab - grown human breast cancer cells and found that they could mimic estrogens, the primary female sex hormones, and inhibit androgens, the primary male sex hormones.

Researchers called them induced pluripotent cells, which are created by enticing cells to turn on genes normally found in embryonic stem cells.