Sentences with phrase «genetic fingerprint»

It thus seems possible that genetic fingerprints of infection may soon be able to provide more direct indications for the predicted role of certain bacterial pathogens in the cause of human cancers.

The blood test, based on the unique genetic fingerprint contained within the genome of every cancer, can not only detect the presence of tumor, but track its progress.

They found four differences that together gave a reliable genetic fingerprint for each individual.

Meanwhile, a scientist on the team who had been looking at sequences from a patient with liver cancer noticed a strikingly similar genetic fingerprint.

Each cell bore the unique genetic fingerprint and characteristics of the adult who donated the original cells.

That is why we see the Neanderthal genetic fingerprint in all non-Africans, not just in Europeans.

From previous research, scientists know that carcinogens like cigarette smoke leave genetic fingerprints on a person's genome, in the form of characteristic alterations in the letters that make up DNA — sometimes thought of as «spelling mistakes.»

Genetic fingerprints reveal movement of deadly bacterium from Europeans to native Canadians

Forensic virology could be on the way in the same way in which we use genetic fingerprinting of our human DNA to locate perpetrators at the scene of a crime and to help trace the relatives of unidentified bodies,» Gatherer said.

Early in the epidemic, an array of SARS strains were present, some with genetic fingerprints that resembled those of the civet virus.

A quarter - century after genetic fingerprinting was first developed, we're still arguing about whose DNA profiles police should keep on file.

Scientists are beginning to find some clues, through genetic fingerprints and with technologies that allow researchers to watch plaques form.

Someday, the first clue that a patient has ingested birthwort could come not from the person's clinical history, but from the herb's powerful genetic fingerprint, he says.

But big data from genetic fingerprinting of animal DNA in a landscape combined with fine - resolution satellite data and sophisticated ecological models can.

The team around Thomas F. Meyer has been looking for tell - tale genetic fingerprints that might prove a causal connection between certain infections to cancer, and have now detected changes that look as if they may be just that.

Modern genetic fingerprinting on a massive scale, called «high - throughput DNA sequencing», can also tell which species live in a landscape based on the environmental DNA that they leave behind in the form of saliva, urine, faeces or blood.

The Court of Justice now says research has brought the reliability of genetic fingerprinting into question.

When the team assayed the samples for viral infection, they discovered a new virus with a distinctive genetic fingerprint that suggested its likely host was methane - eating archaea.

Researchers have determined the species of such unculturable microbes by identifying characteristic genetic fingerprints, but these tell them little about the microbes» lifestyles — which chemicals they burn for energy, for example, and how one species lives off the waste of another.

The researchers believe that with more SNP data, they'll be able to create an even more detailed «genography» map; that will allow individuals armed with their own genetic fingerprint to pinpoint exactly where their families originated.

This could be the initial genetic fingerprint of a precise class!»

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA — Scientists have studied the San people of Southern Africa for decades, intrigued by their age - old rituals and ancient genetic fingerprints.

Since each cancer has a distinct genetic fingerprint, biomarker testing allows us to identify mutations so physicians can match targeted drugs and treatments to the mutations responsible for driving cancer.

Newly discovered genetic fingerprint is a big breakthrough that can help doctors predict the chances of success of IVF treatment.

Online app could help clinicians choose the best treatments by comparing genetic fingerprints of individual cells...

We are all semi-sophisticated in the new vocabulary of crime that includes genetic fingerprinting, offender profiling and future risk sentencing.

The CNVs provide a unique genetic fingerprint for each line, which can also indicate relatedness between any two stem cell lines.

«Every bowel tumor and bowel cancer cell has unique genetic fingerprints: Single - cell technology and organoids enable researchers to study cancer - specific processes.»

Scientists have used genetic fingerprinting to prove that whale meat found being sold at the Los Angeles restaurant The Hump came from the same sei whale that was sold in Japan in 2007.

«Using similar genetic fingerprinting of HSV - 1 could help flesh out a person's life story, adding an extra layer of genetic information not provided by our genomes alone.

Over the past few years behavioural ecologists have begun to trawl for clues in an unlikely quarter: genetic fingerprints of birds.

Each mutation can cause the genetic fingerprint of a species to diverge, or branch slightly.

Once I had the collection of wild chile peppers in hand, I would be returning to my laboratory at U.C. Davis, where I could start genotyping these specimens, generating a type of genetic fingerprint.

Uruguay plans to sell five commercial cannabis strains, each with «genetic fingerprints» so as to allow the ability to trace the product.

Some came from Nepal, where cholera is endemic, and although they showed no symptoms of cholera, genetic fingerprinting has matched the strain of cholera in Haiti to the strain prevalent in Southeast Asia.

For the Colombian finding, Aliota and his research team, which includes Jorge Osorio, professor of pathobiological sciences at SVM, and two visiting doctoral students from Colombia, tested samples from 22 patients for the genetic fingerprints of Zika, dengue and chikungunya viruses.

They then tested hundreds of individual cancer cells for each of the mutations to determine their genetic fingerprint and place them into cancer's family tree.

The inclusion of a patient's «genetic fingerprint» demonstrates another benefit of organs - on - chips: a source for precision medicine and personalized health by testing how an individual would respond to a treatment, Hamilton said.

The price for trainer and dog to travel and work for a week would range between $ 5,000 and $ 10,000, but using other specialized tests — say, genetic fingerprinting to help investigators distinguish between animal and human fecal bacteria — would cost more than $ 100,000, Bell said.

DERBYSHIRE Police have made the country's first arrest after matching DNA from the scene of a crime with a genetic fingerprint in the new national DNA database.

Similar to a key that fits a lock, the scissors only fit a specific pattern of gene fragments that may serve as a genetic fingerprint for the species searched.

Seen in the center of each virus in this colored transmission electron micrograph is its genetic fingerprint (pink), surrounded by a protective protein shell (yellow).

Two seed pods from a desert tree are the star witnesses in a murder trial in Arizona, in what is thought to be the first case in which the genetic fingerprint of a plant has been used as evidence.

After extracting tiny amounts of ancient DNA from the mummies» bones, the researchers amplified 16 short tandem repeats (short sequences in the DNA that create a genetic fingerprint) and eight polymorphic microsatellites (hereditary molecular markers) to testable quantities using techniques commonly employed in criminal or paternity investigations.

Genetic fingerprinting — to prove paternity for instance — would require a court order.