Sentences with phrase «genes studied at»

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«Strategic alliances are definitely becoming crucial in building businesses of all kinds and at an earlier stage than ever before,» says Gene Slowinski, director of strategic - alliance studies at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Management.

However, a study performed at Edinburgh University found that much of our predisposition toward determination, sociability, self - control, and sense of purpose is in our genes.

Instead of just focusing on human DNA, which in the other studies had yielded limited results, she looked at multiple sets of genes — and not just from humans.

In his 2010 book Born Entrepreneurs, Born Leaders, Scott Shane, professor of entrepreneurial studies at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, suggests that genes don't just influence whether a person will start a business; they may even determine how much money a person will earn.

Having looked at the Reiner and Meyer studies, we in the Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Department eventually concluded that human sexual identity is mostly built into our constitution by the genes we inherit and the embryogenesis we undergo.

I strongly disagree with Prof. Hughes» claim that because biologists «study real genes at the DNA level,» there is no more interest in «make «believe «genes.

Because epigenetics is the real driver of your health status, and diet plays a major role in gene expression (aka epigenetics), at least in this post's animal study!

He attended UC Berkley and Sonoma State University where he studied Cell Biology and worked at the USDA Plant Gene Expression Center.

After finishing the survey, participants in the study can opt for an additional study and consider submitting DNA collected by a cheek swab to be tested for variants at the Apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene.

While many factors can influence hyperactivity in children, including genes and environment, «there is good evidence that artificial food colors can also increase levels of hyperactivity,» said Jim Stevenson, the study's lead author and professor emeritus in the school of psychology at the University of Southampton.

Studies on genes, brain structures and hormones have failed to identify a clear link between, on one hand, differences at birth between the sexes and, on the other, particular behaviour.

In the current study, Whitney, along with colleagues John Hinson, WSU professor of psychology, and Hans Van Dongen, director of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane, compared how people with different variations of the DRD2 gene performed on tasks designed to test both their ability to anticipate events and their cognitive flexibility in response to changing circumstances.

In February, the United Kingdom approved using the method on human embryos at the Francis Crick Institute in London, but only within a narrow capacity: Researchers can edit genes in non-viable human embryos for a limited period and only to study developmental biology related to in vitro fertilization.

Findings from a study into Crohn's disease, led by William G. Kerr, Ph.D., of SUNY Upstate Medical University, and his collaborators at the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, provide the first evidence that patients with debilitating inflammatory bowel disease lack sufficient quantities of a protein that comes from the SHIP1 gene.

The team also looked at 56 genes that they had identified in a study of dogs with canine compulsive disorder, a condition in which dogs repeatedly chase their tails, pace back and forth, groom themselves or sucks things, sometimes for hours at a time.

In a study published in Neoplasia, researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine created a map showing which genes were switched on and off in different parts of the tumor, providing a «signature» of these switches throughout the genome.

McCallion's strategy to make sense of all this data looks at the active genes in cells affected by a disease, groups of genes that interact with one another, their vulnerability to mutation and information from past scientific studies to filter more than a thousand gene candidates for disease risk down to just a handful within any one implicated region.

Michael Kaplitt, a neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, whose lab develops gene therapies for brain disorders, teamed up with Greengard and other colleagues in the new study.

That result, reported in a paper posted online December 1 at BioRxiv.org, directly contradicts a previous study concluding that tardigrades got about 17 percent of their genes from bacteria and other organisms.

A genetics research team at Johns Hopkins Medicine has solved a dilemma facing researchers who use genomewide association studies (GWAS) by developing a new approach that strategically «filters» which genes are worth further study.

«Identifying which of these candidate genes actually causes variation in responses to cold snaps will give us the potential to understand whether evolution to climate change can occur in both wild and domesticated animals, allowing us to better predict which species or breeds will be «winners» and «losers» and to better mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change on a wide range of organisms from beneficial pollinators to invasive pests,» said Theodore Morgan an associate professor of evolutionary genetics in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University and senior author of the study.

«I think it awakens the possibility of gene therapy for neuropsychiatric diseases,» says Husseini Manji, a senior investigator at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development in Titusville, N.J., who was not involved in the study.

«Our aim was to explore the effect of a more acidic ocean on every gene in the coral genome,» says study lead author Dr Aurelie Moya, a molecular ecologist with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.

The UNC collaborators on the study team, led by Timothy C. Nichols, MD, performed gene therapy experiments using the well - established dog colony at their institution.

A major study conducted on twins shows that environmental factors may be at least as important as genes in causing autism.

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified a mutation in a fat - storage gene that appears to increase the risk for type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders, according to a study published online in the New England Journal of Medicine.

What unites the sociologists, physicists, biologists, and other scientists studying networks is the recognition that «whether they're networks of people, computers, genes, [or] neurons, they often obey similar mathematical rules and have similar properties,» says Nicholas Christakis, a professor of sociology and of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Bacteria make up about one - third of the solid matter in human stool, and Scott Weber, of the State University of New York at Buffalo, studies what happens to the antibiotic resistance genes our nation flushes down its toilets.

The study found that in the 18th and 19th centuries, about four to 18 per cent of the variation between individuals in lifespan, family size and ages at first and last birth was influenced by genes, while the rest of the variation was driven by differences in various aspects of their environment.

Led by researchers at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Heart Institute, the study demonstrates the gene Gm7325 and its protein — which the scientists named «myomerger» — prompt muscle stem cells to fuse and develop skeletal muscles the body needs to move and survive.

To get a better view of how this might occur, the researchers looked at gene activity in the anterior pituitary glands of foxes in a breeding program at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia, designed to study the evolutionary processes associated with domestication.

Mutations in the genes that defend the body against cancer - related viruses and other infections may play a larger role in breast cancer than previously thought, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Complex traits like the ones in the study are each influenced by many different genes, while at the same time, several different traits can be affected by the same genes.

The researchers determined that CRISPR had successfully corrected a gene that causes blindness, but Kellie Schaefer, a PhD student in the lab of Vinit Mahajan, MD, PhD, associate professor of ophthalmology at Stanford University, and co-author of the study, found that the genomes of two independent gene therapy recipients had sustained more than 1,500 single - nucleotide mutations and more than 100 larger deletions and insertions.

Bing Su, a geneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Kunming, studied the genes of 2275 people from 38 east - Asian populations.

«The state of the art right now is targeting two or three genes simultaneously and then looking at the effects, but we think that perhaps the gene sets that need to be modulated to address some of these diseases are actually broader than that,» says Lu, who is the senior author of the study.

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.

To link, at a molecular level, a gene variant with biochemical changes and clinical symptoms related to a heritable psychiatric disorder, as in this present study, is therefore something of a breakthrough.

Researchers at IRB Barcelona study CEP63, a gene that is mutated in Seckel Syndrome, a rare disease that causes microcephaly and growth defects.

Looking at identical - twin studies, Seligman concluded that genes clearly give some people a head start.

In the current study, researchers analyzed 48 ethnically diverse patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, looking at symptom sets in patients found to have rare or previously unknown changes in the DNA code of the four genes that disrupted brain function.

The study's authors are Jeffrey R. Kugelman, Johanny Kugelman - Tonos, Jason Ladner, Carolyn M. Keeton, Elyse R. Nagle, Karla Y. Garcia, Jeffrey W. Froude, Ana I. Kuehne, Sina Bavari, John M. Dye, Mariano Sanchez - Lockhart, and Gustavo F. Palacios, USAMRIID; James Pettit, Gene G. Olinger, and Jens H. Kuhn, Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health; and Larry Zeitlin, Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Inc..

Appearing in the journal's February 2015 issue, the study, «Phylogenetic visualization of the spread of H7 influenza A viruses» uses genomic analysis to look at the phylogenetic history of genes that assort with H7 influenza.

According to Izpisúa Belmonte, who is also a professor at the gene expression laboratories of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, CMRB aims to become «a research centre of excellence in south Europe in the line of world - recognized institutions such as the Salk or the Whitehead institutes, where both pre - and postdoctoral researchers receive multidisciplinary training of the highest quality» in stem cell biology and cell regeneration.

The Epstein - Barr virus, which infects some 90 % of Americans, may cause changes in gene expression that dramatically increase a person's chance of getting lupus and six other autoimmune disorders, a new study by Harley, now a rheumatologist at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio, and colleagues shows.

Bloch's colleagues at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences tested the oils in gene expression studies on lab - grown human breast cancer cells and found that they could mimic estrogens, the primary female sex hormones, and inhibit androgens, the primary male sex hormones.

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center hope to improve NSCLC patient survival with the results of a study that found that inherited genetic variations in interleukin genes are associated with improved patient survival and response to therapy.

So far, researchers have mostly turned on genes with CRISPRa in cells growing in lab dishes, says Charles Gersbach, a biomedical engineer at Duke University not involved in the new study.

Prof. Khatri and his team studied the way the immune system responds to infection by looking at gene expression — which genes are active and which are not — and whether there are differences in patients with malaria compared to other infectious diseases.

An additional study, currently available at bioRxiv, led by the researchers from the CRG and Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, highlights the fact that a substantial part of human and mice genes have maintained an essentially constant expression throughout evolution, in tissues and various organs.