Sentences with phrase «gene found against»

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So Sandra Ryeom at the Children's Hospital in Boston and colleagues bred mice with three genes to find out if an extra copy gave them extra protection against cancer.

If similar genes are found in people, drugs that mimic their protective effects could be a better strategy against cancer and ageing than simply mopping up all free radicals (PLoS Genetics, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pgen.1000488).

In his «lessons learned» article, Wilson advises researchers against putting themselves in situations that might create potential financial conflicts (in 1992 Wilson had founded a biotechnology company focused on gene therapy).

She harbors two mutant copies of a gene, and therefore lacks a protein that manages blood clotting, but researchers found that people with one inactivated gene copy outlive their peers by a decade and gain protection against diabetes.

The population study findings, including those from the JACC study, suggest that even the partial inactivation of ANGPTL3 — carriers typically have one mutant copy of the gene and one working copy — may be powerfully protective against coronary artery disease, which has long been one of the leading causes of death in developed countries.

New research presented here yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW) finds that a gene associated with increased risk of asthma is also linked to resistance against a parasitic worm.

«Genes may cause tumor aggressiveness, drug resistance in African - American prostate cancer: Research found many targeted therapies for prostate cancer may not be effective against tumors in African - American men.»

To win the war against antibiotic resistant super bugs, scientists seek to find the origin of resistance genes.

Using genetic data from more than 36,000 people with a variety of autoimmune diseases, researchers found that one genetic variant in the TYK2 gene protects against a wide range of...

Additionally, when the researchers checked their network against the DNA of patients with nonsyndromic, or «stand - alone,» autism, they found abnormalities involving three of the network genes.

Nine groups of bacterial genes turned out to be antiphage defense systems, and one system protected against plasmids, another source of foreign DNA, the researchers found.

They may have lacked a gene mutation that modern humans carry that offers some protection against cancer - causing chemicals found in wood smoke.

Intriguingly, Dr Fieten and colleagues also found that mutation of a second copper transporter gene, ATP7A, protected dogs against hepatic copper accumulation.

After clearing the samples of variance due to technical artifacts that could potentially confound the findings, they performed 3.5 trillion statistical tests against every mutation in the genome compared to every expressed gene in each of the 44 tissues.

When the team compared E. rubrum's gene families against those in two other halophilic species (Wallemia ichthyophaga and Hortaea werneckii), they found that high acidic residues were common in all three species, a general trait all salt - tolerant microbes share.

«We found polyploidy in liver cells did not strongly affect the activity of some oncogenes, but it did protect against the loss of tumor suppressor genes.

I found that negative selection against new mutations and positive selection for new mutations shape broad patterns of genomic variation and that much of the genomic variation that actually affects gene expression is under negative selection.

We found that degradation of DNA in the cytoplasm serves as one important defense mechanism against exogenous gene expression, and blocks the effective expression of exogenous genes.

They found that the transplanted cells strongly activate genes that help to guard against damage from ER stress, and suppress other genes that may trigger cellular attempts to self - destruct.

Researchers have also found the gene that underlie the altered metabolism that protects against arsenic.

We found that the robustness of the gene networks of the early organogenesis stage against mutational changes is surprisingly low.

Upon filtering the list of 348 genes against lists of target genes derived from whole - genome analysis studies of Oct4 binding [6], [28], 30 PORE genes were found to be bona fide Oct4 targets (Table S2).

The finding that sexual isolation may be brought about by changes in at most a few genes argues against the evolution of new species in this manner by long - term runaway processes, as dictated by evolutionary dogma, Coyne said.

«It is certainly an interesting study, as its findings inform us of the protective effects of the gene associated with higher aerobic capacity against breast cancer,» she explains.