Sentences with phrase «genes of interest in»

«The challenge has been how to direct certain therapies designed to manipulate genes of interest in specific cells without developing a specific drug carrier for each specific cell type.

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It is, as well, an antidote to Mississippi Burning, a dishonest, award - winning new film in which blacks wait patiently and fearfully in the background for deliverance by two white FBI agents, played by Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, who zealously bend the law in the interest of justice — a film one fears will have a profound effect on the way many Americans view their nation in the King Years («The Dream Dafoed,» as the Village Voice put it).

Wilson's interest for us, then, may lie in the fact that he articulates, at least in the «disenchanted» and secularistic tenor of his thought, what many educated people of our society increasingly suspect to be the case: matter and genes really are all that there is or ever will be.

Evolution was not of major interest to most of these biologists, but insofar as they had a theory of it, it was a theory in terms of mutations of individual genes, carried by individual organisms and submitted to natural selection.

My relatively muted response to the refined starches makes me interested in learning how many copies of the AMY1 «carb breakdown» gene I have.

As a rule of thumb, plant breeders in both public research institutes and private companies use genetic engineering only in the following situations: 1) the gene of interest is not found within the crop gene pool, 2) if found in the gene pool, transfer will be difficult due to incompatibility and other breeding problems or 3) the transfer of the gene will take a long time as in the case of perennial crops like coconut.

With consumer appetites shifting towards more «natural» offerings, there is renewed commercial interest in new non-GMO breeding techniques — such as gene editing — which have the potential to give rise to a range of products with enhanced quality and novel attributes.

Using genetic modification in this way can improve the accuracy of identifying genes of interest and speed up the breeding process, even though the end - product is not GM rice.

LCV Action Fund President Gene Karpinski praised Bishop's support of clean energy legislation, saying he «stands with the people of New York who need clean energy jobs now, and not with the Big Oil companies and special interests who are blocking progress in Washington.»

There has been considerable interest, for example, in a gene that produces low levels of an enzyme called monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) in the brain.

Sebat's team was especially interested in the parts of noncoding DNA that regulate gene expression.

Because this imprinting affects hundreds of genes that are non-coding, including microRNAs and non-coding RNAs, it's a very interesting fine - tuning mechanism for the dosage of gene expression in the brain and elsewhere in the body.»

When looking for genes that might play important roles in the metabolism of healthy and cancerous liver cells, Wang and his colleagues became interested in a gene called SLC13A5, which produces a protein that transports citrate into cells.

But they do seem to have some interest in the opposite gender: Sometimes these parthenogens are mate with males of different species, creating a species with 50 percent more genes than normal.

As well as understanding the implications of finding this new variant of the botulism gene cluster in a non-clostridial species of gut bacterium, the team are interested in exploring how it might help in developing new treatments for diseases.

For a male fathering children with many mates, it's in the interest of his genes that the baby suck as much out of the mother as it can.

Women with precancer or cancer were most likely to have particular versions of the viral gene E7, which researchers are now interested in targeting.

If a biomolecule of interest were tagged with the GFP gene, Prasher thought, a fluorescent signal would show when and where in the organism that gene or the protein it created was being put to use.

Another way to pass on the seemingly nonreproducing gay gene would be for a nonreproducing gay man to have an extra interest in seeing that the offspring of his siblings survive.

Interested in the history of lentiviruses — the group of retroviruses to which HIV and its simian (monkey) relatives, the SIVs belong — Welkin Johnson, from Boston College, USA, and colleagues focused on an antiviral gene called TRIM5.

Their interest was in understanding the functional importance of genes inherited from archaic humans more broadly.

Although the regulation of this gene has a strong «cell cycle control» component, I was more interested in studying cell cycle regulation «proper.»

He is interested in reactivating dormant genes or changing the regulation of active genes in embryos to bring back ancestral traits that have been lost in evolution.

«The interesting thing is that when we looked the same dog genes in human breast cancer, epigenetic aberrations occur in the same regions of DNA.

In the intervening years, we have come to realize that many of the most interesting and important phenomena in human biology are not caused by any single genIn the intervening years, we have come to realize that many of the most interesting and important phenomena in human biology are not caused by any single genin human biology are not caused by any single gene.

He has been able to piggyback on previous work on the development of the chick embryo: When researchers interested in some process use a stain to show gene activity, the stain affects the whole embryo, providing clues about which genes are active in tail growth.

They were particularly interested in IL - 33, a gene linked to inflammation that is overexpressed in the lung tissue of asthmatics compared with people without the disease.

But there is enough awareness of the peril accompanying the promise that researchers and philanthropic organizations interested in the technology recently asked the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to weigh in on gene drives.

In the past decade, ethical questions in science have made headlines on issues such as the patenting of human genes, financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research and risk assessments related to environmental exposure to chemicalIn the past decade, ethical questions in science have made headlines on issues such as the patenting of human genes, financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research and risk assessments related to environmental exposure to chemicalin science have made headlines on issues such as the patenting of human genes, financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research and risk assessments related to environmental exposure to chemicalin biomedical research and risk assessments related to environmental exposure to chemicals.

«David [Baulcombe]'s group developed a number of very interesting gene silencing systems at the time and Olivier was very good at seeing connections between these and designing elegant experiments to test them,» Hamilton, today a lecturer at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom, writes in an e-mail.

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«Our approach narrows down the list of potentially interesting regulatory genes involved in periodontitis,» says Dr. Papapanou.

«This is an interesting example where mild mutations in a gene that is critical for normal development leads to phenotypic [observable] evolution,» said lead researcher Leif Andersson, a professor of functional genomics at Uppsala University, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and Texas A&M University.

Epiviz implements multiple visualization methods for location - based data (such as genomic regions of interest) and feature - based data (such as gene expression), using interactive data visualization techniques not available in web - based genome browsers.

Based on a list of about 30 disease - related DNA targets that researchers are interested in altering through gene editing, the researchers made a second list of nearly 3,000 guide RNAs (gRNAs).

In the past few years there has been an explosion of interest in horse genetics, and last year a test was unveiled for a «speed gene»In the past few years there has been an explosion of interest in horse genetics, and last year a test was unveiled for a «speed gene»in horse genetics, and last year a test was unveiled for a «speed gene».

Steve: So, this gene duplication business is so interesting and it has such profound importance in evolution and researchers realize that, but I don't think that news has really gotten out to the general public in a lot of ways that in the modern evolutionary theory play book, gene duplication has a really big role.

Reetta Satokari's group has an interesting ongoing project where they look at the effects of faecal microbiota transplant on antibiotic resistance genes detected in the patient's microbiota.

«Our team studied thousands of molecular clues in each of these samples, sifting through extensive data on the activity of genes, proteins and other molecules to identify those of most interest,» says Katrina Waters, a biologist at PNNL and a corresponding author of the study.

«Our team studied thousands of molecular clues in each of these samples, sifting through extensive data on the activity of genes, proteins, and other molecules to identify those of most interest,» said Katrina Waters, the leader of the PNNL team and a corresponding author of the paper.

Since the successful sequencing of the human genome, interest in the group of genes encoding proteins responsible for DNA remodeling has grown exponentially.

Although the study is of interest to researchers by providing an understanding of how FLC moves as it is turned off, it can be applied to any gene in plants or animals.

The audience will learn about the current state of breast cancer research, how data generated by NGS gene panels target variants of interest and have been developed and used in routine laboratory research, and the broader issues of breast cancer education, awareness, and community services.

Of particular interest was the group of genes responsible for temperature sensation, which also play roles in hair growth and fat storagOf particular interest was the group of genes responsible for temperature sensation, which also play roles in hair growth and fat storagof genes responsible for temperature sensation, which also play roles in hair growth and fat storage.

One gene cluster connected with the development of the pharynx in vertebrates and acorn worms is particularly interesting.

Then there are people — I happen to be one of them — who say that the gene is interesting but probably largely irrelevant to much of what goes on in the cell.

The genome of the grape used in Pinot Noir, first published in 2007, has revealed some interesting facts: For instance, the genes involved in regulating tannins, which help give wine its flavor, and for making resveratrol, the compound that supposedly gives wine its health - promoting properties, have become more potent over the centuries.

That said, biologists familiar with the study also find it interesting that geisha and mother of geisha are novel genes that don't have a known role in development.

... One of the interesting things is that if you look at this gene in your fat, there is no correlation with your overall fat, with your BMI.