Sentences with phrase «flies used in the experiments»

David W. Loehlin, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, also participated in the study, creating the transgenic flies used in the experiments.

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In this column I've shared how much my experiment not flying has improved my life, which I say as someone with family all over and work that I used to think required flying.

These researchers fed a mutagen to a few fruit flies and then monitored the movement of 2,000 of the progeny, in part using a form of the same apparatus that we now use in our New York to San Francisco experiments.

Drosophila melanogaster, a dipteran (two - winged) insect, is the species of fruit fly that is commonly used in genetic experiments; it is among the most important model organisms.

It did not begin to seriously discuss the risks associated with using the approach to engineer genes that could quickly spread through wild populations — known as gene drives — until after experiments demonstrating the concept in fruit flies had been published in a peer - reviewed journal (V. M. Gantz & E. Bier Science 348,442 — 444; 2015).

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In another set of experiments using the fly and human stem cells, the scientists added antisense oligonucleotides, bits of RNA designed to bind to the repetitive RNA strands, blocking them from interacting with the RanGAP protein.

They chose fruit flies because flies and humans use many of the same genes, but the genetic makeup of flies is much simpler and the short life cycle of flies better assists scientists in conducting genetic experiments, Panin said.

Now, if you fly Japan's Nippon Airlines in the month of October, you just might hear those words too as the airline tries out its own experiment to lighten its passengers and thus it's load, reports the Environmental Leader.The experiment, which runs just through October, will ask all passengers to please use the restroom prior to boarding the flight in order to take a few pounds of weight off of the flight.