Sentences with phrase «genetic machinery»

The researchers discovered that the ancient human oral microbiome already contained the basic genetic machinery for antibiotic resistance more than eight centuries before the invention of the first therapeutic antibiotics in the 1940s.

That's why DARPA is hoping it can help scientists get much better at modifying the metabolic and genetic machinery of cells to produce useful products such as fuels.

Our results suggest that these genes were part of an ancient genetic machinery, shared by animals as diverse as fish, sea urchins and ourselves, that controls the integration of certain cells into the linings of developing organs.

In fact, Loki's genetic machinery suggests that the organism might be able to engulf other cells, the first step in the creation of mitochondria.

Last month in an hour - long show on the National Geographic channel, the game's creator, Will Wright, spoke with biologists about «the breakthrough science that's revealing the secret genetic machinery that shapes all life in the game Spore.»

A subtle form of gene therapy for thalassaemia has received a boost with the creation of a modified virus that successfully shuttles the required genetic machinery into cells.

«Beyond any one application, the papers confirm that newly created systems and software can answer basic questions about the nature of genetic machinery by reprogramming chromosomes in living cells.»

«If this concept of optimizing genetic machinery were to take off, it could revolutionize producing any number of organic compounds, whether that is flavors, fragrances, or pharmaceuticals.

Through disruption of a cell's genetic machinery resulting in uncontrolled growth in a host's cells

Viruses may seem the scourge of the living world, hijacking organisms» genetic machineries for their own good and causing conditions from eczema to AIDS.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is hoping it can help scientists get much better at modifying the metabolic and genetic machinery of cells to produce useful products such as fuels.

«Our results suggest that these genes were part of an ancient genetic machinery, shared by animals as diverse as fish, sea urchins and ourselves,» corresponding author Manuel Irimia said in a press release from the Center for Genomic Regulation and the University of Barcelona.

They're involved in very fundamental ways with the decoding of the genetic machinery shared among all organisms.

Depending on where they land, they can cause trouble or, in lucky cases, add some genetic machinery that evolution can work with.

But edit the RNA and the genetic machinery stays the same while the proteins can be manipulated, so the levels of gene expression are dialed up or down.

The host's genetic machinery is «hijacked» into producing viral proteins which reassemble into viral particles.

The study revealed that growth factors — especially one known as growth differentiation factor 9 — coming from the eggs drove the feeding tube multiplication and growth process, acting directly upon the genetic machinery of the follicle cells surrounding the egg.

Once a retrovirus has infected an organism, it commandeers that organism's genetic machinery, turning a once - healthy cell into a retroviral powerhouse that spreads the infection to more cells in an irreversible cascade.

They do their dirty work by infiltrating bacteria, including disease - causing germs, and destroying them from within: After latching onto bacteria, the phages bore inside and hijack the bacteria's genetic machinery, turning them into phage factories that eventually make so many copies that the cells burst, killing off the host.

«But humans still have the genetic machinery needed to regenerate retinal tissue, if we can activate and control it.»

Bacteria are vulnerable to deadly viruses called phages, which can hijack bacteria's genetic machinery and force them to produce viral DNA instead.

But until the advent of sophisticated tools for genetic and computational analysis, scientists had no way of studying the genetic machinery that enables regeneration.

The virus readily infected bacteria, hijacking their genetic machinery to duplicate itself.

In order to replicate and do their damage, viruses hijack the genetic machinery of their host organisms.

One of the challenges the team hit involved the transfer of the genetic machinery for gas vesicles into E. coli.

These splice sites instruct the genetic machinery to build abnormal dystrophin molecules, but once the gene is successfully edited it expresses a much - improved dystrophin protein product, enhancing the function of the muscle tissue.

Curious as to how these warriors develop, researchers examined the genomes of two Pheidole species that sometimes produce supersoldiers and identified the genetic machinery responsible for making this caste.

Meanwhile, researchers say teasing apart the genetic machinery of coffee rust is relevant not only to coffee lovers but also to our global food supply.

In a September issue of Nature, Chi - Hing Cheng, at the University of Illinois, Urbana, speculated that a «lucky» mutation apparently happened when the fish's genetic machinery «stuttered.»

When they invade a cell, their RNA infiltrates the host's genetic machinery, tricking it into making viral proteins.

University of British Columbia researchers have discovered the genetic machinery that turns a common gut bacterium into the Swiss Army knife of the digestive tract — helping us metabolize a main component of dietary fibre from the cell walls of fruits and vegetables.

La Jolla, CA — Before the engine that drives cell division goes into gear, it must receive a biological spark from its genetic machinery to set the process in motion.

In 2012, when Voot and his colleagues identified a naturally occurring chemical that stimulates the genetic machinery of zebrafish to regenerate two or three times faster, his team began exploring whether the substance might encourage regeneration in humans.

The textbook picture of the marauding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, is that it enters the body, commandeers the genetic machinery of human cells and feeds those...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have discovered that the activation of specific components of the genetic machinery used to close a wound may also be a powerful predictor of which breast...

Using a technique known as transcription factor reprogramming, first described by the Japanese stem - cell pioneer Shinya Yamanaka and his colleagues in 2007, Ku «rebooted» the skin cells» genetic machinery to turn them into stem cells.

With all of the other recent findings, I predict that this is the norm in all eukaryotic cell genetic machinery.

«If you use this genetic machinery, instead of chemical processing, all you have as an input is whatever goes into the cell culture, and then you are able to extract from that cell culture the material that you want,» he said.

«This collaboration fits in very well with our approach, which is to use diverse animal models to study the basic mechanisms of aging and tissue regeneration,» said assistant professor Aric Rogers, Ph.D. «The role of triggers in the cell's genetic machinery is a fruitful new avenue of research.

While it is true that metabolic «errors» typically build up inside the genetic machinery of «pre-cancerous» cells and play a primary role in the development of cancer, it is also true that dysfunction in our immune system, inflammatory system, hormonal system, detoxification system, and antioxidant system — and problematic interactions between these five systems — can significantly increase the risk of cells becoming cancerous.

Sulforaphane actually locks onto a receptor on the cell's nuclear membrane to help shut down the genetic machinery that produces CYP 3A4.

And long - term can be pretty long in a canine, running around for years with essentially the same, if doggier, genetic machinery that we have.