Sentences with phrase «gene out of the laboratory»

THE Australian Parliament's Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology seems to have let the genie out of the bottle, or rather, the gene out of the laboratory.

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He immediately joined the laboratory of Kenneth Burtis, identifying DNA - repair enzymes by crossing flies with genes knocked out.

For the new study, presented last week at the Biology of Genomes meeting here, molecular biologist Marco Osterwalder of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, and colleagues harnessed a powerful new gene - editing technique called CRISPR to figure out exactly how some of these candidate enhancers work.

Biologist Michael Wigler of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, who led the study, started out studying genes in cancer cells but soon realized he was seeing unexpected patterns in the healthy cells he examined for reference.

When the researchers used gene engineering techniques to knock out DDX3 expression in laboratory - grown cell cultures that highly expressed this protein, cell proliferation was half that of cell cultures with high DDX3 expression.

The University Department of Laboratory Medicine (Harald Esterbauer and colleagues) carried out the gene analyses (COMT Val158Met, BDNF Val66Met, 5 - HTTLPR).

To find out more about how RNAi works, a team led by biochemist Scott Hammond of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York picked double - stranded RNA known to interfere with a gene involved in promoting cell division.

The project came out of a collaboration with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to identify gene pathways that could be used to breed crops with higher yields.

Working out the functions of these microbial genes is a big challenge because many of the microbes that live within us are extremely reluctant to grow when cultured under laboratory conditions.

Call for concern Mindful of both the potential and the risks, Esvelt, a bioengineer at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, brought together a group of scientists to write a Comment in Science, published last week, laying out the need for multiple containment strategies for gene - drive research that is done in the laboratory.

This is a unique scientific paradigm: the first publication determining the role of human - specific gene duplications during brain development came out of our laboratory recently (Charrier et al., 2012) and represents a milestone in our understanding of the genetic and neurobiological mechanisms underlying the emergence of human - specific traits of brain development, for example neoteny during synaptic maturation (Benavides - Piccione et al., 2002; Petanjek et al., 2011).

The Salk researchers, which include co-first authors Mo Li and Keiichiro Suzuki, both research associates in Belmonte's laboratory, set out to devise a safe method to use iPSCs to correct the HBB gene in patients who have defective copies of the gene.