Sentences with phrase «genes inside human cells»

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Taking advantage of this, researchers can insert therapeutic genes into a virus, then use the viruses to shuttle the genes to the appropriate cells or tissues inside a human body.

The shared gene allows zebrafish to sense water flow direction, and it also helps cells inside the human ear sense a range of sounds.

«Because the primary Small Intestine Chip recapitulates the physical microenvironment that cells experience inside the human body, such as fluid flow and cyclic peristalsis - like stretching motions, it exhibits a genome - wide gene expression profile that comes closer to its in vivo counterpart than that of the same intestinal cells grown as 3D organoids,» said first - author Magdalena Kasendra, Ph.D., a former Postdoctoral Fellow on Ingber's team and now Principal Scientist at Emulate, Inc. in Boston.

In human cells, the DNA in which genes are found doesn't float loose inside the cell nucleus but is, rather, packaged inside protein «husks» called histones.

They tagged a dozen genes that turn on when the bacteria grow inside clusters of immune cells in the frog, the same spot where TB hides in humans.

Although the court ruled that human genetic material is not patentable — there is «no doubt that naturally occurring DNA and RNA as they exist inside the cells of the human body can not be the subject of a valid patent,» Nicholas wrote in his opinion — it concluded that the process of isolating the BRCA1 gene from the human body required human intervention.