Sentences with phrase «form of gene»

«The hope here is that we've created a moral push to do it in the context of a public health - care system that offers testing on a not - for - profit basis and we hope companies will see the right way forward and the government will step in if more roadblocks are thrown up in the form of gene patents on other tests,» she says.

You can even participate in a form of gene manipulation to ensure that the monster that hatches is unique and powerful.

Dogs without any copies of the diseased gene or carriers with one copy of the PDP1 deficiency form of the gene will be clinically normal but the carrier will pass the affected gene to approximately half the offspring.

Specificity - Probability of correct identification of the normal form of the gene implied in the cerebellar ataxia in a normal homozygous or heterozygous dog is higher than 99 %.

If a dog has the mutant form of this gene, it can't get rid of some drugs in its brain, which can cause neurological problems.

This form of the gene is represented as the «e» allele.

«Only children with the short form of the gene and mothers who had little social support and poor social networks, which increases social stress, were shy as 7 - year - olds,» stated Prof. Fox, whose study appeared in the science journal «Psychological Science».

Alternate form of a gene or trait.

Patients whose blindness is a result of an RPE65 gene might soon consider Luxturna, a form of gene therapy that improves vision.

Also, for individuals who did not experience abuse, the PTSD rate is actually higher for the â $ œprotectiveâ $ form of the gene.

In particular, the immune response was associated with a common form of a gene found in the immune system, which may explain why many people with Parkinson's disease carry this gene variant.

The researchers identified a certain allele — an alternate form of a gene — that preserves brain cells in what they are calling a «breakthrough» finding, according to a report published in the EBioMedicine journal last month.

This is an issue that can be dealt with and we have the technology to do that in the form of gene therapy,» says senior author Dr. Ronald G. Crystal, chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at NewYork - Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medical Center, and the Bruce Webster Professor of Internal Medicine and Professor of Genetic Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College.

a unit of hereditary information; an alternate form of a gene that sits at the same position on a chromosome

One common form of the gene seems to be associated with diabetes — another common form seems to be protective.

A mutated form of this gene causes the body to produce abnormally thick and sticky fluid...

An international research group has discovered that the mutated form of a gene called Palladin causes familial pancreatic cancer.

Oisín Biotechnology — a startup with initial funding from SENS Research Foundation, the Methuselah Foundation, and others — is close behind them, having developed a form of gene therapy that — in animals at least — also destroys these cells, using an approach that is less inherently likely to destroy healthy cells along with senescent ones.

We believe that this new form of gene therapy may offer X-linked SCID patients the best available treatment for their disorder.

Expression changes of these genes suggest a possible form of gene regulation through the alteration of the chromatin structure.

Basically what was happening when you use a hematopoietic stem cell to correct an inherited metabolic disease is that through engraftment of that cell you are allowing that cell to become the replacement source for the missing enzyme or other factor - almost like a cellular form of gene therapy or, as I call it, «poor man's gene therapy».

Elsewhere, in less polluted areas — in Canada and New England, for example — tomcod populations still have the susceptible form of the gene.

Scientists have known that Tibetans carry an unusual form of a gene called EPAS1.

«Only children with the short form of the gene and mothers who had little social support and poor social networks, which increases social stress, were shy as 7 - year - olds,» says Prof. Fox, whose study appeared in the science journal «Psychological Science».

One form of gene therapy involves the direct repair of a defective gene, using genome - editing technology such as CRISPR - Cas9.

Human geneticists and cardiologists studying families with heart disease may discover, said Stainier, that a mutated form of the gata5 homologue occurs in some cases of heart disease, in which case the mutated form of the gene could serve as a marker of predisposition to the disease.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A scientific team led by the Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco has discovered that a common form of a gene already associated with long life also improves learning and memory, a finding that could have implications for treating age - related diseases like Alzheimer's.

While effective, the downside to these approaches to vision rescue is that each disease requires its own form of gene therapy to correct the particular genetic mutation involved, a time consuming and complex process.

If the gene gets damaged in cells in the breast or ovary, they reasoned, it should be able to cause cancer just as it does when a damaged form of the gene is inherited.

Cells with the diabetes - promoting form of the gene churned out four times as much IL - 12.

The findings could lead to earlier cancer diagnosis and the potential for new therapeutics in the form of gene editing.

People with the newly identified polymorphism, or form of this gene, appear to be at twice the risk of developing bipolar disorder, though it is not yet clear exactly why, says Blair.

Britain does not allow any form of gene therapy that alters the genetic material of future generations because of the potential for eugenics or other abuses.

People with the form of the gene that predisposed them to be responsive to big rewards also showed more choice bias from the most strongly rewarded characters.

When a favorable form of a gene (allele) lies within a gene - dense, low recombination region it requires much more work to bring that favorable allele into an existing variety without also dragging in neighboring genes that may exist in undesirable forms.

«There will be men who have the form of gene that increases the chance of being gay, but they won't be gay.»

A subtle form of gene therapy for thalassaemia has received a boost with the creation of a modified virus that successfully shuttles the required genetic machinery into cells.

Then came an invitation to participate in a novel form of gene therapy, one that could mark a first step toward a true cure for AIDS.

This form of gene silencing is triggered by a short piece of double - stranded RNA (the chemical cousin to DNA) that matches the gene.

A particular form of the gene known as TPCN2, for example, bestows brown hair in modern humans; any other form means hair that's another color.

Other studies have shown that those carrying the alternate form of the gene,?

The tumors of 109 of these patients had the normal form of the gene BRAF, which is frequently mutated in melanoma.

Cook adds that the short form of the gene is only one factor in the disorder, as it occurs in 16 % of the general population, while less than 0.1 % is afflicted with autism.

The United States does not have an equivalent to HFEA, but FDA has said that anyone who wants to use the technique needs to apply to the agency for permission, because MRT is a form of gene therapy.

People with the altered form of the gene have at least a 70 per cent chance of developing colon cancer at some time in their lives, and women with the gene also have at least a 50 per cent chance of developing cancer of the uterus.

Despite much effort, no one has managed to develop an effective form of gene therapy to treat the lung problems of people with cystic fibrosis.

A pioneering form of gene therapy has apparently cured deafness in guinea pigs, raising hopes that the same procedure might work in people.

A variant form of the gene was first noted in humans in a Hawaiian study of long - lived men of Japanese ancestry and has since been found in long - lived Germans, Italians, Ashkenazi Jews, and Chinese.

SEATTLE — Some people who have a particular form of a gene that, when mutated, causes Werner's syndrome — a rare disorder characterized by rapid aging in youth — appear to have a relatively low risk of suffering a heart attack.

This information may help to predict which other bacterial species might participate in this form of gene transfer, and to identify just how widespread the phenomenon is.