Sentences with phrase «genes for head»

«New RNA interference technique finds seven genes for head and neck cancer.»

Not exact matches

Scientists have figured out the specific gene mutation responsible for red hair — and why it's more common in beards than on heads.

How long will it take for Earth to devolop gene splicing to create 10 headed creatures??? I think in the 7000 millenium is my best estimate.

«Our work showed that SPIKE is indeed one of the major gene responsible for the yield increase that breeders have spent many years searching for,» said Dr. Inez Slamet - Loedin, head of IRRI's Genetic Transformation Laboratory.

I'm heading to Portland, OR, for a friend's wedding, so I'll be eating plenty, including at visits to Ava Gene's and Maurice, where I'm hoping to find something that channels a crunchy carrot slaw and this Maurice bostock, a sweet, bready revelation.

Keep Gene Chizik as head coach and you are nearly guaranteed a fourth - straight nationally elite recruiting class, another two dozen or so high caliber athletes for Chizik and his staff to add to the mix of inexperienced but talented players already on the Plains.

Little did he know that the head coach he committed to play for, Gene Chizik, would be fired.

Gene Stallings, the Cardinals» new coach, may be best remembered for the controversy he created while head coach at Texas A & M from 1965 to 1971.

These allusions to the past aren't surprising considering how drastically the clinical trial changed gene therapy and, in particular, the career of James M. Wilson, the medical geneticist who headed Penn's Institute for Human Gene Therapy, where the test took plgene therapy and, in particular, the career of James M. Wilson, the medical geneticist who headed Penn's Institute for Human Gene Therapy, where the test took plGene Therapy, where the test took place.

Kevin Esvelt, head of the Sculpting Evolution lab at MIT Media Lab, which is applying for Safe Genes funding in collaboration with eight other research groups, predicts that eventually, perhaps around 15 years from now, an accident will allow a drive with potential to spread globally to escape laboratory controls.

As Saaïd Safieddine, CNRS Director of Research at the Institut Pasteur and co-senior author of the study with Prof. Christine Petit (head of the Genetics & physiology hearing unit at the Institut Pasteur), explains, «we have just shown that it is possible to partially correct a specific form of hereditary hearing loss accompanied by balance problems using local gene therapy performed after the embryogenesis of the ear, which is primarily affected by the mutation responsible for the disorder.

So with frogs, for instance, she cut and pasted genes in experiments that sometimes led to the development of two - headed (or no - headed) tadpoles.

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.

In the case of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, for example, high stemness indices correlated with mutations in the gene NSD1.

As the company's CEO and then president, Bevirt not only designed the machines that prepped endless lines of gene specimens for analysis but also headed up customer service and sales for the company.

It took months, for instance, for researchers to obtain key blueprints, video footage, and samples from scrap steel beams, said W. Gene Corley, head of a government - sponsored study team organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Because genes and the proteins they code for are often highly conserved across species, the researchers suspect their discoveries — boosted by preliminary studies in mice — could lead to new treatments for people whose insomnia or off - hours work schedules keep them awake long after their heads hit the pillow.

Compared with controls, fish with only one copy of each gene exhibit hyperactivity, increased propensity for seizures, increased body and head size, and fat content.

In a search for mutant mice that might be missing the gene, Banfi and colleagues came upon a strain called head slant.

For the first time, Whitehead Institute scientists have documented a direct link between deletions in two genes — fam57ba and doc2a — in zebrafish and certain brain and body traits, such as seizures, hyperactivity, enlarged head size, and obesity.

A study headed by ICREA researcher Roger Gomis at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) has identified the genes involved in the latent asymptomatic state of breast cancer metastases.

The gene in question, apolipoprotein E (apoE), codes for a protein in the brain's astrocyte cells that seems to help spur nerve cell growth and clear up debris from neuronal injuries brought by head trauma, stroke, or cerebral hemorrhage.

A new function now described for the protein dDsk2 by the team headed by Ferran Azorín, group leader at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and CSIC research professor, links ubiquitin receptors for the first time with the regulation of gene expression.

So she and her colleagues have instead looked for venom genes in the genome of a close Latrodectus relative, the common house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum, which was reported on 31 July in BMC Biology by a team headed by Alistair McGregor of Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom.

Exploring «what these genes actually do and why they make people vulnerable for insomnia is the next step,» says study co-author Eus Van Someren, head of the Sleep & Cognition Group at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience.

Jonathan Appleby, GSK project leader for the ADA - SCID trial and head of cell and gene therapy at the rare diseases unit, says there are many differences between working on this kind of trial and working with one for a common disease.

2003 Chinese company Shenzhen SiBiono GeneTech gains approval for treating head and neck cancer with Gendicine, a modified adenovirus carrying a tumour - suppressor gene.

«For example, a breeder might succeed in adding a favorable allele for stem rust resistance from a wild barley, but along with that gene drag along another gene that causes shattering of the mature head,» Close saFor example, a breeder might succeed in adding a favorable allele for stem rust resistance from a wild barley, but along with that gene drag along another gene that causes shattering of the mature head,» Close safor stem rust resistance from a wild barley, but along with that gene drag along another gene that causes shattering of the mature head,» Close said.

«This was a bit of a surprise and something I wish we understood a little better,» says Francis Collins, one of the discoverers of the CF gene and head of the US National Center for Human Genome Research.

The human version of the FOXP2 (short for fork - head box P2) differs from that of the chimp (the closest living relative of humans) in two places along the genetic code, causing differences in two amino acids in the protein coded by the gene.

UPenn gene therapy researcher Jean Bennett, who heads that study (which is separate from Jacobson's) and reported the most dramatic improvements in patients» vision, says those gains seem stable for as long as 7.5 years.

For example, mice missing the Hoxa3 gene have abnormal heads and lack a thymus.

Now, gene therapists headed by Inder Verma and Niels - Bjarne Woods of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, show that IL2RG can cause cancer without disrupting an oncogene.

Indeed, when the researchers knocked out the gene for one synaptic protein, called SAPAP3, in mice they noticed something odd: After a few months, the animals developed lesions on their heads and necks.

Steve: Right, it's as if the pelvis was there and so children with larger heads and their mothers with the genes, apparently, for producing children with larger heads both survived, but only because that larger pelvis was already there.

In particular they observed for the first time a transient pulse of gene expression that precedes the segmentation of the human embryo into discrete parts that will become the head, trunk and limbs of the body.

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2015 - present Head of Unit, Gene and neural stem cell therapy for LSD Unit, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, SR - Tiget 2006 - 2015 Group Leader at San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR - Tiget; Dir.

Scholar - in - Training Awards in the amount of $ 1,000 for her submitted abstract entitled, «Activator protein 2 alpha (AP2α)- targeted methylation and silencing of relevant genes in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) pathogenesis» to be presented at platform session at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, Denver, CO..

Prior to that, Dr. Matushansky was at Novartis where he was Global Head for Clinical and Scientific Development at its Gene & Cell Therapy Unit as well as a Global Clinical Program Lead within Novartis» Oncology Translational Medicine Unit.

«The human genome sequence provided a blueprint of all the protein - coding genes in the human genome for the first time,» reveals Jan Ellenberg, Head of the Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit at EMBL Heidelberg, «this changed how we go about studying protein function.»

Dr. Sadelain is founding director of the Center for Cell Engineering and head of the Gene Transfer and Gene Expression Laboratory at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), where he holds the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair.

Debate about so - called germline editing of eggs, sperm and embryos has been going on for decades, but it has come to a head in recent years with the development of a powerful new gene - editing technology called Crispr - Cas9 that can make extremely precise edits to DNA and which was used by the Chinese team and would be used by the British team.

Scientists in the lab of Whitehead Member Peter Reddien have discovered that the gene Smed - beta - catenin - 1 is required for proper decisions about head - versus - tail polarity in regenerating flatworms.

She served as the Global Blood Disorders Franchise Head, for Baxalta US Inc. with commercial responsibility for Baxalta's Hemophilia gene therapy programs, Von Willebrand, Sickle Cell and hTTP programs.

10:38 - Rosinski: «Amazing things are possible now» and the HD gene gives us a head start for understanding the disease

The short form of the serotonin transporter gene promoter does not explain autism, insists Dr. Cook, who heads a nationwide consortium of researchers looking for the genetic underpinnings of this disease, but it does appear to play a significant role, perhaps in concert with other abnormalities which we've not yet uncovered.

Genetic Blueprint for Head and Neck Cancer Revealed Genetic sequencing offers powerful clues to understanding the function of various genes and their roles in cancer, and Kimmel Cancer Center researchers have produced some of the most seminal findings in cancer genetics.

The San Diego Epigenome Center, headed by Bing Ren, Ph.D., Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and head of the Laboratory of Gene Regulation at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, is an integral part of the five - year, $ 190 million push to accelerate research into modifications that alter genetic behavior across the human genome.

For people who carry genes linked to Alzheimer's, blows to the head may entail an added risk.