To test for Plasmodium falciparum DNA, PCR primers were designed that specifically amplify small subtelomeric variable open reading frame (STEVOR), apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1), and merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP1)
gene fragments with sizes of 100 to 250 base pairs (bp).
Not exact matches
At the time, George had begun collaborating
with molecular biologist Allan Wilson, a colleague at Berkeley who had just cloned
gene fragments from the 140 - year - old pelt of a quagga, an extinct brown - and - white - striped zebra relative.
Dr. Satish Rattan, Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Jefferson's Sidney Kimmel Medical College, together
with Drs. Jagmohan Singh and Ipsita Mohanty, used altered copies of the body's own genetic make - up — small RNA
fragments (microRNAs) that regulate the target
gene RhoA / ROCK — in order to strengthen or weaken the muscle tone of the sphincter.
«The
gene has been cloned, and we know it interferes
with the production of toxic amyloid
fragments,» says Ralph Nixon, a professor of psychiatry and cell biology at New York University School of Medicine and a past chair of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council of the Alzheimer's Association.
They checked that the viral
gene fragments in the child and mother were a close match, and double - checked that the samples of blood cells from the child were his and no one else's, by matching them genetically
with the mother.
A number of these trials represent completely novel classes of therapy, such as employing
fragments of RNA that interfere
with problem
genes or developing vaccines meant to quell drug addiction.
With the remains from Punta Azul, the researchers used a
fragment of the amelogenin
gene.
R6 / 2 mice have been genetically altered
with an abnormal
gene that makes them produce a harmful
fragment of the mutant huntingtin protein
Characteristics of the gut microbiota in adult patients
with type 1 and 2 diabetes based on the analysis of a
fragment of 16S rRNA
gene using next - generation sequencing — Dominika Salamon — Polish Archives of Internal Medicine
A PCR
fragment containing full - length env and rev
genes was derived from plasma virion - associated RNA from a subject acutely infected
with a clade B virus by reverse transcription and nested PCR amplification.
During the night, coral
fragments treated
with high calcium concentrations showed active
genes that are involved in the mitochondrial synthesis of ATP and ribosomal metabolism.
A PCR
fragment containing full - length env and rev
genes was derived from plasma virion - associated RNA from a subject infected
with a clade B virus by reverse transcription and nested PCR amplification procedures.
A PCR
fragment containing full - length env and rev
genes was derived from plasma virion - associated RNA from a subject infected
with a cla
There are 32 predicted pseudogenes, most of which are truncated
fragments of
genes associated
with repeats.
Some of the team's most significant findings since 2009 were the identification of a
gene mutation associated
with blood cancers and the discovery of chromosomal crisis where the genome can be shattered into hundreds of
fragments in a single cellular catastrophe.
To compare the expression values across
genes and conditions, raw count data was transformed into
fragments per kilobase of exon per million
fragments (FPKM)
with the formula:
The number of
fragments aligned to each
gene was counted using the HTSeq package
with the script htseq - count, mode intersection - nonempty.
They started
with the AAV9 virus and modified a
gene fragment that codes for a small loop on the surface of the capsid — the protein shell of the virus that envelops all of the virus» genetic material.
Sequencing of the 16S rRNA
gene fragments was performed on an ABI Prism 377 automated sequencer (Genomics Research Laboratory at North Carolina State University)
with the BigDye Terminator v3.1 Cycle Sequencing Reaction kit (Applied Biosystems).
For people possessing the HLA - DQ2 or - DQ8
genes (90 - 95 % and 5 - 10 % of those
with CD, respectively), avoiding gluten means less chance of gliadin
fragments being bound tightly and starting telephone in the immune system.
Objective 1: To create a recombinant, nonanaphylactic, single - chain antibody
fragment (scFv)
with high affinity for canine IgE from the variable region
gene sequences of mAb 5.91 clones.
Genes associated
with the following forms of inherited canine retinal diseases were tested for association using
fragment analysis in 11 PRA - affected and 11 unaffected Swedish vallhund dogs: canine multifocal retinopathy (cmr;
gene: BEST1)[8], [9], rod - cone dysplasia type 1 (rcd1; PDE6B) and type 3 (rcd3; PDE6A)[23]--[26], progressive rod - cone degeneration (prcd; PRCD)[27], canine Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA; RPE65)[6], [7], cone - rod dystrophy (crdSWHD, NPHP4)[28], and achromatopsia / cone degeneration (ACHM / cd; CNGB3)[29], [30].