Sentences with phrase «genes than that of human»

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This team also discovered 3,200 genes that had fewer loss - of - function or missense mutations than would be expected suggesting that these are likely disease - causing variants that are rare or absent in the population because of their detrimental effect on human health.

Those of a less determinist mind look upon culture and religion as examples of the human ability to transcend our genes, to see ourselves as more than our inheritance.

What I'm really going to do is to rid the gene pool of its 10,000 worst contributors, in an effort to speed up the evolution of the human race (yes: I made the system automatic, so that I didn't have to bother diddling with it at every moment: Darwin was right, but the process turned out slower than I expected, and I got bored, hence the urge to speed things up a tad).

She picked those non-human primates because they are the closest relatives in the animal kingdom, especially gorillas and chimpanzees, who share more than 98 % of their genes with humans.

However, this study revealed that mice are more similar to humans than previously thought, with an average of around 10 % of active genes escaping X-inactivation per tissue.

It was one in a long line of some 40,000 patents on DNA molecules awarded in the past three decades, covering more than 20 percent of human genes.

Largely because of it, more people have been tested for BRCA1 than for any other human gene.

The team found that humans are equipped with tiny differences in a particular regulator of gene activity, dubbed HARE5, that when introduced into a mouse embryo, led to a 12 % bigger brain than in the embryos treated with the HARE5 sequence from chimpanzees.

But how did the human brain get larger than that of our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, if almost all of our genes are the same?

We show that Neandertals shared more genetic variants with present - day humans in Eurasia than with present - day humans in sub-Saharan Africa, suggesting that gene flow from Neandertals into the ancestors of non-Africans occurred before the divergence of Eurasian groups from each other.

Studies have shown that more than 50 % of all human cancers carry defects in the p53 gene, and almost all other cancers with a normal p53 function carry other defects which indirectly impair the cancer - fighting function of p53.

They downloaded sequences of more than 700 genes from organisms ranging from fruit flies to humans and compared genes from closely related species.

MATCHED PAIR Studies of more than 14 million sets of twins indicate that human traits, on average, are dictated equally by genes and environment.

More than three fourths of all current antibiotics used to treat human infections are produced by Actinobacteria, which at the same time carry antibiotic resistance genes.

Compared with earlier methods to tweak the genomes of bacteria, plants, laboratory mice and human cells, the Crispr - Cas9 gene - editing method is fast, precise and cheap, an order of magnitude better than the others.

A world in which ectogenesis — the artificial development and «birth» of human embryos outside the womb — is the norm, «and less than 30 per cent of children are... born of woman», a world of ectogenetic parents selected to improve the quality of the gene pool, advancing each generation in any desired respect «from the increased output of first - class music to... decreased convictions for theft».

According to the National Cancer Institute, more than a third of all human cancers, including a high percentage of pancreas, lung and colon cancers are driven by mutations in a family of genes known as Ras.

Extinct human cousins may have used some genes differently than modern people do, an analysis of Neandertal and Denisovan DNA reveals.

After inserting more than 400 human genes into yeast cells, researchers found that almost half of the human genes actually worked and kept the yeast alive!

The results show that the epigenetic pattern in more than 3,000 genes (out of approximately 25,000 that exists in a human being) had changed differentially, depending on whether the participants had eaten saturated fat or polyunsaturated fat.

«In order to boost the production and secretion of proteins, the UPR regulates more than five percent of all human genes,» explains Robert Ernst.

When transplanted into human cells in the laboratory, the mammoth TRPV3 gene produced a protein that is less responsive to heat than an ancestral elephant version of the gene.

To identify genetic changes likely to be responsible for the giraffe's unique characteristics, including sprints that can reach 37 miles per hour (60 km / h), Cavener and Agaba compared the gene - coding sequences of the giraffe and the okapi to more than forty other mammals including the cow, sheep, goat, camel, and human.

By analyzing genetic samples for over half a million individuals as part of the GIANT research project, which aims to identify genes that regulate human body and size, researchers found more than 100 locations across the genome that play roles in various obesity traits.

The new study — published October 18, 2016 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry — combined genetic analysis of more than 9,000 human psychiatric patients with brain imaging, electrophysiology, and pharmacological experiments in mutant mice to suggest that mutations in the gene DIXDC1 may act as a general risk factor for psychiatric disease by interfering with the way the brain regulates connections between neurons.

«This is by far the largest twin study of gene expression ever published, enabling us to make a roadmap of genes versus environment,» Sullivan says, adding that the study measured relationships with disease more precisely than had been previously possible, and uncovered important connections to recent human evolution and genetic influence in disease.

It is also known that zebrafish and humans have very similar genes, and these similarities extend to more than 80 % of the genes associated with human disease.

In 2012, his team reported that humans had a different form of these fatty acid genes than did chimps or other ancient human species, one that made them more efficient at processing the fatty acids from plants.

For instance, his team found that around 2000 genes are expressed at levels higher than those of normal human tissues because of the duplications.

In each of the chimp, human, and gorilla, more than 500 genes have been evolving faster than expected, suggesting that they have changed in a way that confers some advantage.

«The percentage of cells in humans and in mice that we were able to edit was higher than has been previously reported in gene editing technology,» said Egan.

The human genome — the sum total of hereditary information in a person — contains a lot more than the protein - coding genes teenagers learn about in school, a massive international project has found.

Researchers spent nearly four years trying to identify the location of the Sr35 gene in the wheat genome, which contains nearly two times more genetic information than the human genome.

The massive project, carried out by a private company in the country, deCODE genetics, has yielded new disease risk genes, insights into human evolution, and a list of more than 1000 genes that people can apparently live without.

Consistent with that result, the researchers found that certain regions of the X chromosome in human female B cells, including regions that contain immunity - related genes, were expressed at higher levels than male cells.

The number human protein coding genes, which account for less than 2 % of the human genome, have recently been found to number over 20,000.

Less than a decade after a powerful gene - silencing method — RNA interference, or just RNAi — was discovered, the field's pioneers have not only won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine but have also helped launch an entirely new class of drugs into human clinical trials.

At the outset, no one could predict that the novel H1N1 virus — a recombination of human, pig, and avian influenza genes — would turn out to be more wimp than monster.

More than half covered genes used outside of human medicine, in applications including agriculture, food and beverage manufacturing, industrial enzymes and bioenergy (Nature Biotechnology, doi.org/mvh).

Pruden says that sul1 antibiotic - resistance genes were 1,000 — 10,000 times higher in human - affected sites than in the «natural background» of more pristine areas of the watershed.

His symptoms may come closer to mimicking the human disease than most mouse models of mental illness, because the gene involved has such a powerful effect.

The Neurospora genome contains 10,000 genes, far less than the estimated 30,000 or so that humans have, but comparable to that of the fruit fly Drosophila, which has 14,000.

The first results of gene editing in viable human embryos reveals it works better than we thought, but that there's another big problem blocking the way

They play a key part in regulating the activity of genes in many species, from yeast to humans Fewer than 10 years ago no one knew they existed

«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.

If stretched out and strung together, strands from a human cell would span about five feet, yet less than six inches of it would contain genes.

After inserting more than 400 human genes into yeast cells one at a time, researchers found that almost 50 % of the genes functioned and enabled the fungi to survive.

The use of the ATA, rather than the more common ATG, had led some investigators to conclude that the human gene was a pseudogene — a gene that serves no function.

One study, to be published online September 11 in Nature Communications, found that a much smaller number of genes than previously believed serve as the ignition switch for human embryo development.

They've found new disease risk genes, insights into human evolution — and a list of more than 1000 genes that people can apparently live without!