Sentences with phrase «genetic code for»

We estimate that 25 % of Bedlington terriers suffer from this disorder and half the rest carry the genetic code for the defect but do not become ill.

The female sex chromosome (X) also carries the genetic code for orange or black coat colors; the male sex chromosome (Y) does not.

The entire genetic code for a particular organism is known as its genome.

DNA Profiling, also known as «DNA Fingerprinting» or «Genotyping» establishes a genetic code for each individual bird.

DNA Profiling, also known as «DNA Fingerprinting» or «Genotyping» establishes a genetic code for individual horses of every breed.

These same attributes will form the genetic code for future models bearing the ST badge.

Between the most nonsensical plot device of the year (the Apple of Eden contains the genetic code for free will), a juvenile understanding of genetics (certain characters are genetically predisposed to violence), and the fact that Cal Lynch looks nothing like his father (a spectacularly misused Brendan Gleeson) but exactly like an ancestor roughly twenty generations removed, the movie is headline after headline of bad news.

Within the sphere is the genetic code for what gives human beings free will.

Roughly 10 percent of these nitrogen - fixing microorganisms contain the genetic code for manufacturing a back - up enzyme, called

Roughly 10 percent of these nitrogen - fixing microorganisms contain the genetic code for manufacturing a back - up enzyme, called iron iron - only nitrogenase, to do their job.

So Stefan Wagner and his colleagues at AgResearch in Hamilton, New Zealand, identified the genetic code for the protein and then made a complimentary genetic structure that shut down BLG production when injected into a cell's nucleus.

The fatty particles carried with them the genetic code for making MAFA, essentially a genetic «switch» that binds to DNA in the nucleus and activates insulin production.

For example, a 2003 study identified a mutation — a single - letter switch in the genetic code for a protein called neuroligin - 3 — in two Swedish brothers, one with autism and one with the related but milder Asperger syndrome.

In a few years you will be able to order a transcript of your entire genetic code for less than $ 1,000.

Extavour's special expertise is in tracking the development of germ cells, the cells created in an embryo that contain the genetic code for reproducing multicellular organisms.

The flies were engineered using bacteria that had been modified to insert the genetic code for the unnatural amino acid into the fly DNA.

«The NILR1 is the genetic code for a receptor protein that is localized to the surface of plant cells and is able to bind and recognize other molecules,» says Prof. Florian Grundler, chair at the Department of Molecular Phytomedicine at the University of Bonn.

However, when they looked at the genetic code for Palmer amaranth, they found the repeat.

Venter's team stitched together a genetic code for one bacterial species from scratch, then inserted it into a second species and booted it up.

For now, though, synthetic biologists know next to nothing about how to design a genetic code for an entirely novel organism.

Specifically, they'll say Adam and Eve had the genetic code for regeneration of limbs, but it was lost as a result of Eve's chit - chat with the snake.

By contrast, the new Zika candidate vaccine uses tiny strands of RNA that hold the genetic codes for making viral proteins.

Investigations of how short chains of nucleic acids replicate themselves in vitro have even provided clues to primitive genetic codes for translating nucleic acid information into protein information, systems that could have preceded the elaborate machinery of ribosomes and activating enzymes with which cells now manufacture protein.

Alterations in the genetic coding for a nerve cell receptor, which detects a chemical signal that is key to behavioral change, could point the way to designing therapies most effective for patients suffering from schizophrenia, drug addiction and other mental illnesses.

«Traveling salesman uncorks synthetic biology bottleneck: Computer program scrambles genetic codes for production of repetitive DNA and synthetic molecules.»

Dr. Yin is seeking to understand how zebrafish regenerate damaged tissue so that therapies can be developed to reawaken our dormant genetic codes for regeneration.

Not exact matches

We've figured out some drugs that usually work, but as we learn more about the human body and our genetic code — the things we have in common but also the things that make us unique — we may come up with a new sort of medicine, tailored for each person.

Bloom syndrome is one of about 250 conditions and diseases that 23andMe's original DNA kit claimed to help screen for by analyzing users» genetic code.

23andMe launched in 2006 amid a flurry of publicity and celebrity endorsements, marketing its saliva - based test kit as an affordable way for consumers to peek into their own genetic code.

Considering the obvious privacy concerns caused by Facebook's tracking of non-Facebook users «for security reasons,» the idea of forcibly sharing access to one's genetic code has the potential for deeper and more unsettling repercussions.

The team spent the first five years of the company's life building out what co-founder and CEO Jason Kelly describes as a «giant compiler, debugger, and programming language for genetic code.»

There are parents who will tell you that they knew when their child was young... it's not taught, it's not something these people can switch on and off; it's not a phase... it has to do with genetic coding to a point and for you to continue to deny the evidence that points to this only shows your bigotry.

The OAR proposal uses a variation of therapeutic cloning called altered nuclear transfer (ANT) in which the nucleus of a donor cell (a skin cell, for example), containing the 30,000 genes of the genetic code, is altered in such a way that it produces an epigenetic factor, a protein called nanog.

But if he has been answering the prayers could they start praying for a cure for cancer and the genetic code of algae that make gasoline and how to grow food in salty soil and lots of other stuff that is more important than mankind's salvation?

By implication, however, if it could be shown that the fetus is a separate life from that of its mother (for example, having its own genetic code from the time of conception), then even by liberal criteria there would be a crime with a real victim, hence prohibited by the social contract with its minimal requirement of protection of innocent persons.

Even an analogy which was not essential to the formulation of a theory can influence its future development — as, for example, when molecular biologists speak of the genetic «code» of DNA molecules in terms of «letters», «words», «sentences», and «punctuation».

Selection for this suite of traits leaves a mark on the plant's genome by the reduction of genetic diversity in the areas that code for these traits.

Rewriting the genetic code of a country can be taxing, even for someone like Graeme Walton.

For example, would the p11 - boosting therapy — which incorporates into recipients» genetic code — continue to function even if a patient's depression has subsided after treatment?

Alpha -1-antitrypsin deficiency (A1ATD) is the most common genetic disease of the liver, and is caused by a single nucleotide change in the gene that codes for alpha -1-antitrypsin (A1AT), an enzyme inhibitor that normally protects bodily tissues.

It is a ritual he has followed regularly for the past five years, retreating here or to a makeshift basement lab in his San Francisco — area home, on the hunt for an error hidden somewhere within Beatrice Rienhoff's genetic code.

Paleogeneticist Claudio Ottoni and his colleagues from KU Leuven (University of Leuven) and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences set out to look for the answer in the genetic code.

The researchers have now provided further evidence for this new theory by showing that the abnormal protein coded for this genetic disorder can be transmitted to normal animals by the injection of diseased cells into their brain.

After solving the puzzle of DNA (for which he won a Nobel Prize in 1962 with Watson and their professor, Maurice Wilkins, who died in October), he tackled RNA, leading a successful effort to crack the genetic code and laying the groundwork for modern molecular biology.

One part of the CRISPR / Cas9 system acts like a navigation system and can be programmed to seek out a specific part of the genetic code — a mutation, for example.

For example, in humans, protein synthesis in mitochondria relies on a genetic code that varies from the canonical code.

Scientists designed the bacteria by adding 18 new genes to their genetic circuitry, including thousands of DNA bases that code for light sensor proteins that respond to red, green, or blue light.

Rather than giving the body proteins as medicines, we give the body the genetic code (via mRNA) to produce its own proteins and become the factory for its medicine.

But certainly if we find the remnants of life on Mars, and it's using the same genetic code, for example, as life on Earth, it is almost certain that the two forms of life are related.

The lab has also shifted from testing genetic markers known as short tandem repeats (STRs), which are standard in paternity testing, to recording single letter variants in the genetic code known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, which are rarely used for this purpose.