Sentences with phrase «gene chips»

Scientists are also using gene chips to detect genes that the bacteria «turns on'to infect its animal host.

This will include robotic DNA extraction, genome - wide mapping with high density gene chips (querying 175,000 DNA markers), and next - gen sequencing of the entire genome of an affected dog (interrogating every letter of the 2.4 billion letter genetic code).

Gene expression profiles measured using human genome Affymetrix Gene Chip arrays were grouped by hierarchical clustering, and correlation coefficients were computed for all pair-wise comparisons (Fig. 4A).

Several pint - size projects are in development, including gene chips, protein arrays, stem cell controls and electronic circuits.

You don't need gene chips to see genetic influence in human body shape: think of Hottentot women with their steatopygous buttocks or «the elderly Indian gentleman with skinny legs and arms and no butt but this gut,» as Scherer puts it.

Modern instruments like space observatories, particle colliders, and gene chips produce vast amounts of data, and mining that data is a slow, laborious process.

In order to clarify the basis of limited responses in children and adolescents to standard adult antidepressant treatment of adult major depressive disorder, Dr. Tarazi and his staff analyzed gene expression in developing animals after treatment with several antidepressant drugs using microarray gene chips.

Scientists used gene chips containing feline single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)-- variations from the common feline DNA sequence that can help track down genes responsible for genetic diseases — to conduct their investigations.

Developed first DNA gene chip for horses housing 3,200 expressed horse genes, helping uncover key differences in genes between humans and animals, giving critical information before launching into an experiment

Traditional strain - selection techniques are supplemented with strain screening, which can involve examining gene - expression patterns through PCR or understanding global gene expression in relation to environmental factors using gene chips.

M: Dip - pen nanolithography will allow researchers to prepare the highest - density gene chips the world has ever seen.

Now two research teams have spotlighted the middle ground, using so - called gene chips to evaluate millions of bases of DNA in a single experiment.

Although the whole drive to understand the molecular basis of beer production involves modern tools that are used in biotechnology, such as real - time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), gene chips, proteomics, mass spectrometers, and so forth, genetic manipulation is not acceptable in any form — not in any of the raw materials or the yeast.

Hopes ran high that the company's thumbnail - sized «gene chips» would transform medicine by making it easier, quicker, and cheaper to scan a tissue sample for a troublesome microorganism or a disease - causing mutation.

The method uses gene chips (similar to computer chips) to read the molecules in heart and lung transplant biopsies.

A transplant biopsy system that uses gene chips to read molecules is far safer and more effective than existing approaches used for heart transplant biopsies and is showing promising results for lung transplant biopsies, new University of Alberta - led research shows.

The number is growing as researchers apply ultrafast microarray technology (gene chips that scan for mutations for diseases) to search for relevant DNA.

This gene chip and other newly developed devices can detect activity of all human genes.

So Allen institute scientists will instead divide the human brain into between 500 and 2000 anatomical regions, and study gene activity in each by washing extracts from tissues in these regions across «gene chips» that can record which messenger RNA is present.

He and a colleague took samples of both visceral and subcutaneous fat from the mice and, using gene chips, identified the genes in the fat cells as well as in precursor fat cells.

Using gene chips, researchers have developed a test to look for «aged» RNA, Cowan says.

By using gene chips to measure gene activity, Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and colleagues have now shown that this may indeed be the case.

They isolated RNA from each sample and passed it over a gene chip with tags for 12,000 human genes.

Gene chips, for instance, can measure the expression of thousands of genes at a time, but the important question is how one gene regulates others within that incredibly complex web of relationships.

Gene activity was measured in the abdominal visceral fat before and after the weight gain with the help of a gene chip that studies several thousand genes at a time.

Gene chips are used to find the regulatory groupings in the mustard cress plant.

Gene chips, for instance, are being used to follow the responses of whole sets of genes inside the plant to disruptive environmental changes, and to reveal the full range of changes going on inside the plant that form part of the full biological response to stress.

Gene chips used to follow grouping of genes that are active together.

With the development of DNA microarrays, the gene chips that allow scientists to read the output of thousands of genes at once, along with robotics and computers, scientists tear through hefty analyses with previously unheard - of swiftness.