Sentences with phrase «for useful genes»

In all, the researchers were able to position more than 1000 markers on the chromosome that will help them and others hunt for useful genes.

Not exact matches

Keith Fargo, the Alzheimer's Association director of scientific programs and outreach, told Business Insider in 2017 that the Alzheimer's report, which would tell me whether I had a mutation on my APOE gene, was more useful in the context of research than it was for predicting who might get the disease.

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).

Beyond this, the unique power of GM lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.

It's useful to keep in mind that no one is born with a gene for automatically knowing how to care for an infant!

Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, knew that stem cells are more useful for gene therapy than ordinary cells, because they produce multiple daughter cells with the modified genes.

«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.

But when the researchers compared the genomes of opossums and humans, they found a surprising number of similar immune - related genes, meaning it's useful for just the opposite of the expected reason: The gray short - tailed opossum is a nice model for immunology research.

And a dog genome sequence has made the animals an even more useful model by quickening the search for disease - causing genes.

These results illustrate a useful approach for studying the effect of gene expression on cardiac contractility.

While the baby was breastfeeding, the bacteria in his stomach contained numerous genes useful for breaking down milk sugars.

For the dozens of labs at work on the problem, coming up with useful genes, known as transgenes, is not the hard part — it's how to transfer enough copies of the transgenes into free - ranging populations.

The work, published in tomorrow's issue of Science, * holds out hope that gene therapy will be useful for limiting the severity of Parkinson's, a progressive disease that afflicts about 500,000 people in the United States alone.

Infidelity may sound like a bad thing to humans, but for birds, Botero says, seeking out superior genes could be a useful strategy for surviving climate change.

The results showed that AAV was in fact useful for gene therapy; it just had to be applied the right way.

«While they're useful for studying gene function in an animal, they also have their own inherent interest,» Melton says.

Although AdV proved too destructive for regular gene therapy, for instance, it turns out to be supremely useful in treating cancer, where you want to rouse the immune system.

«These findings illustrate how resurrection plants manipulate sugar metabolism to promote desiccation tolerance and may provide candidate genes that are potentially useful for the development of stress tolerant crops.»

«Soybean genotypes carrying Rpp1b, Rpp2, Rpp3, and Rpp5a resistance genes, and cultivars Hyuuga and UG5 (carrying more than one resistance gene), were observed to be resistant against most of the African rust strains, and therefore may be useful for soybean - breeding programs in Africa and elsewhere,» Hartman says.

For example, many of the genes in the new networks are related to cancer, suggesting that certain cancer treatments that target these genes might also be useful to treat ASD.

«Nevertheless, this gene will be useful in combination with other STB resistance genes, and our study provides tools for rapid lab - based tracing of Stb6 in wheat breeding lines,» says Kanyuka.

This test may be particularly useful for patients with high grade serous ovarian cancer because the mutated cancer gene TP53 is found in more than 99 per cent of patients with this form of the disease.

Molecular geneticist Lisa Baumbach of the University of Miami says the technique should be useful in screening for inherited forms of breast cancer, for which researchers must use many probes to distinguish among multiple mutations in a gene.

Because the precise activation of Hox genes is essential for a cell's fate, «the research should prove extremely useful in developing novel embryonic stem cell - based therapies, Mazzoni adds.

The new AAV vectors can also deliver genes that code for colorful fluorescent proteins; such proteins are useful in identifying and labeling cells.

Given how useful any insights into gene function are for understanding the genetic basis of disease, the data are «priceless,» says Kári Stephánsson, a geneticist at deCODE in Reykjavík.

It is only the handful of genes that differ, such as those defining blood group, which are useful for making maps.

The gene may be useful for diagnosing the condition or projecting the risk of disease in people who are healthy, but there isn't a lot of profit in testing people.

Similarly, carriers in the Jackson study of one copy of the genes that cause sickle - cell disease — a useful trait against malaria in Africa — appear to be more at risk for kidney disease.

It is particularly useful when clinicians want to identify an illness or gene mutation involving a single patient or the patient and two or three other family members, which is the most common clinical situation for undiagnosed diseases.

Further work is required to consider if certain gene pathways may provide a base for useful interventions.»

Those genes could be at the root of inherited sleep disorders, Blackshaw says, and the proteins they make could prove useful as starting points for the development of new drugs to treat insomnia and even jet lag.

These include Cenix Bioscience, which has developed a new lab technique to identify the genes that are involved in cell division, predicted to be very useful for finding potential new targets for anticancer drugs.

Some proteins recycled from jumping gene parts have also proved extremely useful, especially for the immune system.

Tomatoes are already an ideal model species for plant research, but scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) just made them even more useful by cutting the time required to modify their genes by six weeks.

«This technique will be useful for other studies interested in characterising the link between gene expression and physical, external traits.»

The strategy of single - cut editing may be useful for treating other single - gene diseases, Dr. Olson said.

But they could also transplant groups of interacting genes, creating more humanlike yeast that would be useful for studying new drugs or molecular circuits that go awry in diseases.

In a report today, that panel endorsed Obama's broad proposal, finding that a 1 - million - person study will be useful for finding genes and biomarkers that influence disease risk and response to drugs.

«We chose these genes because they have proven useful for classification of related groups of bats,» said Velazco.

Without knowing which gene variants were contributing useful properties, people simply selected the best plants for continued cultivation, in this case choosing plants that had large backpacks.

The cellulose gene may eventually be useful in developing new, high - fiber products, but don't look for tougher clothes or stronger two - by - fours anytime soon.

It is expected that the new technique will be applied to gene therapy in the future in addition to providing a powerful tool for breeding useful organisms and conducting disease and drug - discovery research.

So far, the CRISPR system has mostly been exploited as a gene editing tool, but it may also prove useful for medical testing.

The new finding suggests that this may not be a useful a strategy in the future, because if the resistant rats hold their own or become dominant, the gene for resistance will not disappear.

The authors conclude that there are many applications for which using the I - score would be useful, for example in formulating predictions about diseases with high dimensional data, such as gene datasets, in the social sciences for text prediction or financial markets predictions; in terrorism, civil war, elections and financial markets.

Adeno - associated viruses (AAVs) make fantastic gene delivery vehicles for episomal gene expression and are particularly useful for gene delivery to the nervous system.

These muscle progenies will be very useful to design gene repair strategies for DMD patients.

In addition, we have generated a high - quality RNA - Seq gene annotation pipeline that is now routinely used in Ensembl annotation and is proving particularly useful for species with very little protein or cDNA evidence.

Although CRISPR is incredibly useful for generating mutations by NHEJ and generating small mutations with HDR, when it comes to larger scale genome editing, such as replacement of a mouse gene with its human ortholog (greater than 5 kb), it remains to be seen whether CRISPR is as robust as conventional gene targeting.