Sentences with phrase «genes for»

Don't blame gluttony or genes for the obesity epidemic — it's our sedentary habits echoing down the generations, says obesity theorist Edward Archer

One species, Glycine tomentella, was of particular interest because it has genes for resistance to soybean rust and to soybean cyst nematode, he said.

The former target, say, using gene editing techniques to inactivate HIV receptors and achieve resistance of blood cells to the virus (which Sangamo BioSciences is working on in clincial trials) is different than helping parents who both carry genes for Huntington's Disease to have a child that is free of the disease (a change to the genome that would be passed on to future generations and would likely not be very commonly needed).

«We found that the genes for both antibiotic synthesis and self protection in Strain 115 are conveniently clustered on a compact DNA molecule [a plasmid] that replicates itself as a small circle within the cells of Strain 115,» says Griffitts.

Although many different malaria resistance loci have been postulated over the years, this is one of very few that have stood up to stringent testing in a large multi-centre study; the others include the genes for sickle cell and the O blood group.

How many different genes for antibiotic resistance come to Israel from the various dust storms, and how prevalent are these genes?

Other groups had already supplied yeast with genes for the second half of the pathway, which converts a similar intermediate called R - reticuline into codeine, morphine, and the like.

Additionally, genes for long organs were associated with genes for faster remating by females, which further increases competition among sperm and hence the advantage to males producing longer sperm.

In 2011, the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium was awarded $ 2,37 million in funding from the national funding agencies participating in the European Science Foundation program to systematically search for novel genes for seizure disorders.

They found genes for five new receptors, all of which belong to a known family of proteins called formyl peptide receptors (FPRs).

«However, recent work has shown that at least some of the fungal partners in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses lack the genes for enzymes involved in the major pathway of lipid biosynthesis, and are therefore unable to produce certain essential fatty acids,» Gutjahr explains.

The finding was not accidental, because the laboratory was scouring certain genes for abnormalities, but it was unexpected.

In Class I engagement, Sox9 binds to the genome indirectly via the basal transcriptional complex, regulating transcription of genes for basal cell activities.

Last summer, Hamer and his colleagues made worldwide headlines when they announced that a region near the tip of the X chromosome probably contained a gene or genes for homosexuality.

It has also triggered warnings about «designer babies,» in which parents customize their IVF embryos by adding, removing, or changing genes for certain traits.

From isolated caves to ancient permafrost, antibiotic - resistant bacteria and genes for resistance have been showing up in unexpected places.

A key challenge is that, at least in developed countries, deaf people tend to marry each other, thus mingling many genes for impaired hearing.

«If you now want to use this to blame your genes for looking much older, it won't work,» says co-senior author Manfred Kayser, a forensic molecular biologist at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

That, says Pascal Simonet of the University of Lyon, France, is partly because genes for resisting antibiotics are everywhere.

The effort has already had one practical result: the discovery of two new genes for resistance to a race of wheat stem rust to which there is virtually no resistance in wheat.

Recent work shows the bacteria may hang on to the genes for CTX - M even when no longer exposed to antibiotics, suggesting that superbugs can survive in the wild, with animals acting as a reservoir.

Lindstrom and his colleagues inserted genes for human nicotinic receptors into frog eggs and incubated them with levels of nicotine similar to those found in the blood of a human smoker.

I left the hotel feeling pretty good about my genes for the most part.

And it was known that they've maintained the genes for seeing short wavelength light, at the blue end of the spectrum.

Think yeast cultures expressing different colors under fluorescent lights, or cheese made not from cows but from microorganisms implanted with genes for milk proteins.

It is also the primary source of genes for the bread - making properties of wheat flour.

All were supplied by Reproductive Genetics Institute (RGI) in Chicago, Illinois, which specializes in helping couples who carry genes for rare diseases create healthy embryos that can then be implanted.

Near each Crispr sequence are genes for a variety of Cas (Crispr - associated) enzymes, including Cas9.

Deafness has long been known to run in families, and while genes for about 60 syndromes that have deafness as one of multiple symptoms have been mapped, only last month did scientists locate the first of the estimated 100 genes that can cause hearing loss alone.

So, it's not an issue of her possibly becoming infected by these parasites, but because there is usually a genetic basis [for] parasite resistance, she may be looking for good genes for her offspring to survive better.

For example, aggressive animals had increased activity of some genes for sensing dopamine.

Odds are that the suite of genes for superintelligence wouldn't survive intact in the remix.

The genes for the threads turned out to code for a mixture of two proteins.

Botanists are combing the planet for wild ancestors of soybeans, tomatoes, hard wheat, and grapes, believed to contain valuable genes for drought tolerance and other characteristics, but much diversity has already been lost.

These drug - bug interactions could make microbial genes just as important as a person's genes for predicting how a drug will affect someone, says Matthew Redinbo of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

So even if you start off [with] say, a resistant type of staph infection, that line of staph organisms not only, will they be more resistant, but they may pass some of the genes for that resistance off to completely other unrelated types of bacteria.

Since the February breakthrough, PPL Therapeutics of Edinburgh, which collaborates with the Roslin Institute, has produced five lambs from fetal cells that were genetically modified to carry marker genes and genes for human proteins.

Perhaps most significantly, in a study led by Frances Champagne — then a graduate student in Meaney's lab, now an associate professor with her own lab at Columbia University in New York — they found that inattentive mothering in rodents causes methylation of the genes for estrogen receptors in the brain.

«IL - 33 stands as one of the strongest candidate genes for asthma to date,» Barnes says.

Hypoxia - inducible factor 1α (HIF - 1α), an oxygen sensor that controls the expression of various genes for glucose metabolism under conditions of low oxygen levels, is the most well documented substrate of the von Hippel - Lindau (VHL) enzyme.

Likewise, mutants of S. praecaptivus that lacked quorum sensing but also lacked genes for insecticidal toxins were less harmful towards their hosts.

«We used the Allen Human Brain Atlas data to quantify how consistent the patterns of expression for various genes are across human brains, and to determine the importance of the most consistent and reproducible genes for brain function.»

In the pups of inattentive mothers, they found that genes regulating the production of glucocorticoid receptors, which regulate sensitivity to stress hormones, were highly methylated; in the pups of conscientious moms, the genes for the glucocorticoid receptors were rarely methylated.

Gene - activating CRISPR / Cas9, known as CRISPRa, could be used to turn on dormant genes for treating a variety of diseases.

The answer is that it forms the platform for illuminating the interaction between the use of animal manure and the appearance of genes for antibiotic resistance in soil.

The new and improved wheat assembly will help wheat breeders accelerate their crop improvement programmes and researchers to discover genes for key traits such as yield, nutrient use and bread making quality.

The idea is that activists in the rich countries will organise consumer boycotts of genetically engineered foods, while the farmers in the South oppose the patenting of genes for use in agriculture.

Hattar and Berson inserted genes for glowing proteins that would activate only in melanopsin - producing cells.

The Cambrian explosion looks abrupt in the fossil record, but the surprising message from evo devo is that all the genes for building big, complex animal bodies long predated the appearance of those bodies.

Ostrander says that by identifying other dog genes for body size and for traits such as leg length and head shape, researchers may learn more about growth and its disorders — especially cancer — in humans and their best friends.