Sentences with phrase «gene circuit produces»

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Now, an international team of scientists has made inroads to understanding how genes influence brain structure and cognitive abilities and how neural circuits produce language.

Analogous to integrated circuits that underlie myriad electronic products, engineered gene circuits can be used to generate defined dynamics, rewire endogenous networks, sense environmental stimuli, and produce valuable biomolecules.

From studying genes and circuits, to healthy behavior and psychiatric disorder, the institute's faculty contribute expertise to routinely produce insights and tools to see, map, understand and fix problems in the nervous system.

We know a great deal about the genomic mechanisms through which androgens and estrogens influence behavior; by turning genes on and off and thus affecting levels of proteins in cells, they slowly sculpt the brain circuits and peripheral structures required to produce social output.

We have previously described a plant response system that produces white plants when a «de-greening gene circuit» is transcriptionally induced with an estrogen - like hormone [7].