Sentences with phrase «gene control»

They wondered whether an inherited cluster of genes controlled these traits.

This study will help us to understand how genes control biological processes like cell division and behaviour.

The animals grow to adulthood in 3 days and they only live for 3 weeks, which makes them perfect for figuring out which genes control resilience to stress and longevity.

However, while such conservation holds for genes involved in basic cellular functions and in development, whether it was also true for genes controlling complex social behaviors like aggression was far from clear.

They further investigated the genomic basis of divergence among the cultivated populations for identifying genes controlling important traits.

The researchers believe that one reason the bacterium is so difficult to cultivate in the laboratory is that it has lost genes controlling many important metabolic pathways.

But the exact genes controlling the duration of sleep and the biological processes that are linked to these genes have remained unclear.

The borrowed genes control the production of sugars carried on the surface of the cells.

For example, scientists are learning how individual genes control organ development or disease.

This poor parenting actually alters genes controlling the production of stress hormones.

This means that more than one pair of genes control the inherited trait.

But researchers do not know which genes control the process.

They then identified the putative causal mutations in genes controlling shattering (a key domestication trait among cereal crops).

He shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries which contributed to the understanding of how genes control cell division and cell death in organisms.

At least 20 different genes control lycopene production.

In collaboration with colleagues in Mexico last year, we found that these same genes control various aspects of maternal reproduction, providing remarkable insight into the evolution of reproductive strategy in flowering plants,» he explained.

«We're now in an age where we can pretty easily figure out what genes control those differences,» von Wettberg says, keeping the qualities that mechanized farming requires, «while adding in resistance to drought, disease, and pests.»

The Newcastle University study suggests that an as - yet undiscovered gene controls whether a man's sperm contains more X or more Y chromosomes, which affects the sex of his children.

Genetic variants of the HMGA2 gene controls beak size in the birds, evolutionary geneticist Leif Andersson and colleagues now report.

In a study described in the January 28 issue of Nature Neuroscience, the Hopkins team describes this new gene control mechanism and how it may contribute to Rett Syndrome, a nervous system disorder affecting mostly girls that causes problems with movement and communication.

One might expect that the disease would be associated with genes controlling our synapses or neurotransmitters.

University of Illinois researchers have identified candidate genes controlling the accumulation of phenolic compounds in broccoli.

With this fully assembled polyploid wheat genome, we identified the causal mutations in Brittle Rachis 1 (TtBtr1) genes controlling shattering, a key domestication trait.

In the past few months, however, several major research consortia have delivered what amount to users» manuals for the genome, mapping the locations of thousands of those switches, the specific genes they control, and where in the body they are turned on or off.

«We think this particular regulatory gene controls late - stage survival when granulomas are forming,» says Bishai.

Rochester scientists discover gene controlling genetic recombination rates 23.04.2018 University of Rochester

«If we know how genes control drug response, we can create a statistical model that shows us what will happen before using the drug,» said Wu, who is also a member of Penn State's Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.

Parental imprinting — a form of gene control passed down from parents to offspring — is far more dynamic than previously thought and may contribute to changes in the brain and other tissues over time.

The fluctuating proteins synthesized by clock genes control additional genetic pathways that connect the molecular clock to timed changes in an animal's physiology and behavior.

However, scientists» knowledge of the target genes controlled during memory formation is limited.

In both groups, 30 per cent of flies died, with specific defects showing that the silenced genes controlled mainly early - stage development.

When Murphy compared the genes turned off and on in oocytes and body cells of the same worm, however, she saw that two completely different sets of genes controlled oocyte and body - cell aging in C. elegans.

In S. praecaptivus, the quorum sensing genes control genes that function in virulence, or the ability of bacteria to aggressively enter cells.

«The fact that the genetic code can simultaneously write two kinds of information means that many DNA changes that appear to alter protein sequences may actually cause disease by disrupting gene control programs or even both mechanisms simultaneously,» said Stamatoyannopoulos.

Dr Nicola Nadeau, a NERC Research Fellow from the University of Sheffield added: «It's amazing that the same gene controls such a diversity of different colours and patterns in butterflies and a moth.

The tga1 gene controls glume hardness, size, and curvature (6).

Further studies showed that very similar genes controlled the process in animal and human cells, and also helped piece together how the genes work together to keep the cell's recycling centers running.

These Hox genes control the activity of a multitude of other genes that are responsible for the early development of an organism.

For the first time, researchers have identified a long non-coding ribonucleic acid (ncRNA) that regulates genes controlling the ability of heart cells to undergo repair or regeneration.

«How a developmental gene controls feeding behavior.»

So Hoffman is now looking for leads among genes controlling the production of molecules called growth factors, which regulate cell growth and division.

And Dr. Ludovic Orlando from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen concludes: «Perhaps even more exciting as it represents the hallmark of animal domestication, we identify genes controlling animal behavior and the response to fear.

The study, «Preadipocytes from obese humans with type 2 diabetes are epigenetically reprogrammed at genes controlling adipose tissue function» has been published in the International Journal of Obesity.

Increasingly local adaptation to climate is being studied at the molecular level by identifying which genes control climate adaptation and how these vary between individuals.

But, seriously speaking, he clarifies that genes control reproductive success and survival, so his life span prognosis is established, regardless of his decisions about having children.

Newly selected mutations in genes controlling sperm production show up in every ethnic group he and his team have studied; those genes may affect characteristics including abundance, motility, and viability.

The researchers next showed that the Smurf1 gene controls M. tuberculosis growth in human macrophages and that the Smurf1 protein was found in association with bacteria in the lungs of patients with tuberculosis infections.

In 1996, her group found strong but not conclusive evidence that an almost identical gene controlled cellulose synthesis in cotton.