Sentences with phrase «genetic machinery of cells»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The SMN protein has been implicated in the assembly of the splicing machinery that cuts and pastes the cell's genetic instructions together.

Dr Tomi Pastinen, senior author on the second study, from McGill University said: «We have created an expansive, high - resolution atlas of variations that deepens our understanding of the interplay between the genetic and epigenetic machinery that drives the three primary cells of the human immune system.

The genetic circuit produces the machinery necessary for the production of a compound that inhibits a protein which has a significant and critical role in the growth and survival of cancer cells.

Moderna was founded on the idea that messenger RNA (mRNA), the molecule that relays genetic instructions from DNA to the cell's proteinmaking machinery, could be re-engineered into a versatile set of drugs and vaccines.

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.

They found that occasional conversions of a genetic letter found in RNA into a slightly different form can cause a cell's protein - building machinery to roll right through a stop sign.

Since the beginning of time, viruses have been inserting their genetic material into the genomes of their hosts, tricking the cell's machinery into making more virus.

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.

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.

Based on the mutated DNA, affected cells create long strands of repetitive RNA, genetic material normally responsible for transferring DNA's genetic code outside the nuclei, to the machinery that translates it into proteins.

Researchers applied the findings to a mouse model with a genetic mutation in a component of the ribosome — the machinery that makes proteins — and the rate of protein production was reduced in stem cells by 30 percent.

In guarding the cell against genetic damage, the p53 machinery functions both in the nucleus of the cell and in the cell's gel - like cytosol.

The protein p53 is a key activator of the cell's protective machinery against genetic damage, such as the mutations that drive cancer cells» explosive growth.

During the ensuing infection, it makes many copies of its genetic material, using the cell's machinery, and this reassembles into many more virus particles that are then released to infect more cells.

We are using biochemistry and genetics to identify the proteins that enable neurite - specific neuropeptide localization and using cell - type - specific genetic manipulations to disable that machinery and thereby probe the behavioral function of extra-synaptic peptide signaling in specific circuits.

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

«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.

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

When these capsules come into contact with a host cell, the genetic information is able to enter the cell and hijack its machinery so that the host cell manufactures copies of the virus, as well as potentially harmful viral proteins.