Sentences with phrase «fly gene used»

«Plants modified to express fruit fly gene used to detoxify contaminated land.»

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Gene drives enable a gene to spread rapidly through a population; there are plans to use them to combat mosquito - borne diseases by making the flies sterile or unsuitable as hosts for various viruses and parasiGene drives enable a gene to spread rapidly through a population; there are plans to use them to combat mosquito - borne diseases by making the flies sterile or unsuitable as hosts for various viruses and parasigene to spread rapidly through a population; there are plans to use them to combat mosquito - borne diseases by making the flies sterile or unsuitable as hosts for various viruses and parasites.

«Our study validates using fruit flies as a model to discover new genes that may also control aggression in humans.»

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson performed the Genes in Space - 3 investigation aboard the space station using the miniPCR and MinION, developed for previously flown investigations.

Most of the rechristened genes were identified by geneticists studying the fruit fly; when equivalent genes were later found in the human genome, researchers simply continued using the name of the fruit fly gene to avoid confusion.

To identify genes involved in the patterning of adult structures, Gal4 - UAS (upstream activating site) technology was used to visualize patterns of gene expression directly in living flies.

Collins and Anthony James of the University of California, Irvine, thought they might use the mutant bug to test a fancy trick: Take a bit of DNA, called a transposon, that likes to wiggle into genomes, and use it to insert a fruit fly gene for darker eye color into a mosquito's DNA.

Already, researchers have used CRISPR / Cas9 to edit genes in human cells grown in lab dishes, monkeys (SN: 3/8/14, p. 7), dogs (SN: 11/28/15, p. 16), mice and pigs (SN: 11/14/15, p. 6), yeast, fruit flies, the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, zebrafish, tobacco and rice.

The technology has been developed in recent years in fruit flies, mosquitoes and other organisms, using CRISPR gene editing.

«I'm not used to that kind of conference,» says Messer, who says he told the group about his lab's efforts to study the evolution of resistance to CRISPR gene drives in fruit flies.

Prof. Hasan's work used Drosophila flies with mutated Orai genes that prevented normal operation of the SOCE process.

Decades of work in developmental biology have provided a start: Biologists have used mutant frogs, flies, mice, chicks, and fish to identify some of the main genes that control a developing cell's decision to become a bone cell or a muscle cell.

The study, conducted using fruit fly populations bred to model natural variations in human sleep patterns, provides new clues to how genes for sleep duration are linked to a wide variety of biological processes.

More than two decades ago, in one of the first papers using gene sequences to find signatures of natural selection, scientists hypothesized that a molecular change in an enzyme gave the Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly species its superior ability to metabolize alcohol.

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).

Using a gene from fruit flies, scientists have produced the most resilient and stretchy rubber known.

By using insect activity monitors, the scientists assessed the effects of drug and gene therapy candidates on the flies» ability to move.

They tested this theory in mice, rats, flies and fish using publicly available gene - expression data.

Keene and his collaborators used fruit flies in their study and created various scenarios between sleeping and foraging to test each gene one at a time to determine which gene didn't affect their sleep.

Using the Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly as a model organism, the team led by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Lohmann at Heidelberg University's Centre for Organismal Studies was able to show how a special developmental gene from the Hox family influences germline stem cells.

Using experiments with fruit fly eggs, the team saw that Oskar binds to RNA within the cell — specifically three RNAs derived from genes also known to be important to germline development.

The gene expression patterns were so similar, in fact, that investigators were able to use them to match up the stages in worm and fly development.

This visual abstract of Mohammad et al. depicts how mammalian anxiety factors also govern defense behaviors in the fly and use these behaviors to identify new conserved candidate anxiety genes.

In 2004 Guilherme Neves and Andrew Chess, now at the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, tracked the roles played by other genes on chromosome 21 — in this case using a fruit fly as the model.

The Science paper, by developmental biologist Ethan Bier and his student Valentino Gantz at the University of California, San Diego, used CRISPR to insert a modification into genes on both chromosomes in a pair, so that when the flies bred, they would pass the modification on to practically all of their offspring.

In order to find the genes that guide that migration, geneticist Ruth Lehmann of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at New York University Medical School and her colleagues used chemicals to cause mutations in thousands of adult fruit flies then screened their embryonic offspring for lost or misguided germ cells.

To do this, they used specially bred flies with genes that could be turned off in groups of nerve cells at high temperature.

It will also be used to analyse gene signalling networks in cress, fruit flies and sea urchins.

To see how courting is affected when neurons are hyperactivated, they used flies with a version of a gene that was stuck in the «on» state in clumps of nerve cells.

To see what genes might be involved in this increased aggression, the team used microarrays to look for differences in gene expression in fly brains.

«Precise gene - editing techniques could be used to tailor - make flies that express a patient's specific genetic mutation.

The researchers used this live - imaging technique to study fly embryos at a key stage in their development, approximately two hours after the onset of embryonic life where the genes undergo fast and furious transcription for about one hour.

In spite of the difference between the cell functions responsible for giving rise to a tumour and for the metastasis of this same tumour, studies at IRB Barcelona using the fly Drosophila melanogaster reveal that some genes can drive both phenomena.

The research team led by Han used high - throughput techniques to alter the activity of dozens of genes in flies» hearts simultaneously in order to validate genes that cause heart disease.

In the study, Spradling, with colleagues Michael Buszczak and Shelley Paterno, determined that the fruit fly gene scrawny (so named because of the appearance of mutant adult flies) modifies a specific chromosomal protein, histone H2B, used by cells to package DNA into chromosomes.

Using fruit flies as their favored experimental model, the Jans pulled back the curtain on a graceful symphony of steps guided by a succession of genes that influences the onset and course of neural development and wiring.

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.

Instead of focusing on marine animals, they use animal models such as freshwater zebrafish, salamanders, fruit flies and nematode worms that share many of their genes with humans.

Yeast, bacteria, worms, and flies had long been used for gene knockout studies, and mice with knockout genes had just been developed before Waldman began his experiments.

Yeast, bacteria, worms and flies had all long been used for gene knock - out studies, and mice with knock - out genes had just been developed before Waldman began his experiments.

The authors had used a controversial new molecular technique to try to force a certain gene to be inherited by all of a fruit fly's offspring.

«Maybe it's in my genes, because my father used to be a pilot, but I love flying and traveling.

Using the fruit fly Drosophila, a standard lab model for studying animal biology, the researchers discovered a cascade of molecular signals that program gene activity to drive the fly from one stage of maturation to the next, like a baby turning into an adult.