Sentences with phrase «genes from»

«We obtained a total of 36 antibiotic resistance genes from the antibiotic - resistant E. coli.»

«This is the first time that, without a million dollars, an average lab can make 10,000 genes from scratch.»

They tried again using gas - vesicle genes from a closer relative of E. coli, a bacterium called Bacillus megaterium.

It uses a virus already approved by the Food & Drug Administration for other genetic therapies in the eye; it delivers an ion channel gene similar to one normally found in humans, unlike others that employ genes from other species; and it can easily be reversed or adjusted by supplying new chemical photoswitches.

One worry, for example, is whether present - day computer programs will be powerful enough to distinguish genes from the non-coding DNA that makes up 98 per cent of the human genome.

In some cases, the missing pieces can be picked up by comparing the new sequences with known sequences of genes from other species.

Khila and Santos identified five genes from that group that were expressed specifically in the tip of the second leg, where the fan develops.

Glenn Browning at the University of Melbourne in Australia and colleagues sequenced the viruses and found that they arose when the European strain acquired genes from the Australian strains.

«Viruses impact important microbial processes in plankton — killing their cells, moving genes from one cell to another and reprogramming the cells to change their ecosystem output,» said Sullivan.

The team's genetic information came from analyses of two particular genes from 230 species representing all major subgroups of modern birds.

«If you told someone that it matters whether they inherited genes from their mother or father, then that would change the way you conducted an experiment,» Valdar says, «because now you know what to look for.»

Inflammation also erodes telomeres, the «caps» at the ends of chromosomes that protect genes from degradation, which can lead to early cell death, premature aging and even cancer.

Genes from the original plant source and two other organisms were inserted, and a preexisting biochemical pathway was carefully adjusted.

It's likely, he says, that during recovery from dessication, bdelloids pick up genes from members of their own species, too — dead members, that is, whose genes spill out of ruptured cell membranes.

And when they sequenced Sputnik's genome, they found its small ring of DNA contained genes from three different viral families, including Mamavirus.

Each of 3,222 British people with Pakistani heritage carries, on average, mutations in 140 genes that stop those genes from working, researchers report online March 3 in Science.

By comparing sets of genes from tens of thousands of people, researchers have found some that the body can't seem to live without.

But if you knew that the effect of a drug had a lot to do with whether you inherited specific genes from your mother or father, then you could design an experiment that would include parents.

Instead of using the usual small set of DNA markers, both teams compared hundreds of genes from up to 40 spider species to build a family tree that included all the web builders.

In fact, they were so common that genes from the founding stock have all but disappeared.

And it appears that archaea acquired chemotactic abilities by borrowing those genes from bacteria.

The irony is thick because techniques used to insert genes from one organism into another were developed in European university labs more than 30 years ago, and the first stabs at commercial cultivation of so - called «transgenic» crops occurred in Europe's fields.

This stirring of the genetic pot allows the offspring to be unique while preventing any harmful mutations in the parents» genes from accumulating.

«An egg is the most sophisticated cell in an organism, carrying the genes from one generation to the next,» says Jose Cibelli, a biotechnologist at Michigan State University.

Living people may carry more genes from Neandertal females, like the one in this artist's reconstruction, than from Neandertal males.

Biotinylated probes are constructed based on these sequences to chemically «capture» the intron - containing genes from the study species» genome.

The second, published in November 2016 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, presented the discovery that parasitic weeds may be able to steal genes from their prey and then use those genes against the host plant.

They identified all genes from bacteria, fungi and archaea coding for halogenating and dehalogenating enzymes.

In news that will surely fan the flames of the heated debate over genetically modified crops, scientists have found evidence that genes from GM plants can spread far and wide to native ones.

Hence, the offspring derives all its genes from the mother, but they are not a duplicate of her genome.

A peek at tardigrades» genetic diaries may dispel a rumor about an amazing feat the tiny creatures were supposed to perform: borrowing large numbers of genes from other organisms.

We assume that phages acquire resistance genes from already resistant bacteria and then transfer those genes to other bacteria,» says Hilbert.

When the scientists prevented the genes from working in zebrafish, they failed to develop fingerlike projections called fin rays — the fishes» «hands.»

«Our study indicates that we inherit more than just genes from our parents.

Using mouse embryonic stem cells that generate motor neurons as a model, the researchers found that CTCF isolates Hox genes from harmful activation.

Not being a recognisable species could lose the red wolf its conservation status, despite being the only carrier of genes from extinct southern grey wolves

First, they sequenced the same 50 olfactory receptor genes from two humans, two chimpanzees, two gorillas, two orangutans, and two rhesus macaques.

GENES from ancient viruses may be an essential component of mammalian reproduction, helping the placenta to establish itself in the womb, suggest biologists in California.

Goldstein and colleagues had reported that tardigrades imported about 17 percent of their genes from foreign sources using a type of DNA swapping known as horizontal gene transfer (SN Online: 11/25/15).

When they compared this with the genomes of five modern humans, they found that people of non-African origin had inherited between 1 and 4 per cent of their genes from Neanderthals.

The discovery suggests that even asexual species swap genes from time to time.

In the new nomenclature, genetic sequences are labeled «genseq,» followed by a reliability ranking (e.g., 1 if the sequence is from a primary type), followed by the name of the genes from which the sequences were derived (e.g., genseq - 1 16S, COI).

Biological age, Samani says, is related to the length of telomeres — stretches of DNA at the ends of chromosomes, which protect these precious packages of genes from daily wear and tear.

That means pollen will carry novel genes from the agricultural settings into neighbors» fields or into the wild.

But Collins and Sheetal Modi, Ph.D., the lead author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow in Collins» laboratory and at the Wyss Institute, knew that phage were also abundant in the gut, and that they were adept at ferrying genes from one bacterium to another.

They would then use CRISPR and other gene - editing tools to swap relevant genes from the extinct animal into the living species and implant the hybrid genome into a surrogate (or grow it in an artificial womb).

The discovery of gene imprinting in 1984 raised a big question: Why should genes from one parent be silenced in the first place?

Genes don't shuffle around via sex, but there's still kidnapping of genes from other asexuals.

Analyses of such variants, compiled from cataloging the genes from more than 60,000 people, are already offering doctors helpful insights into diseases such as schizophrenia and some heart conditions.

But sometimes mutations arise that disable entire genes from one parent.