Sentences with phrase «genetic modifications»

As of now most genetic modifications are not made to benefit the end consumer.

First, because of the wide array of genetic modifications available, we wished to test for these effects in mice.

The reasons for trace mineral deficiency are complex and include soil depletion, over farming, and genetic modifications, to name just a few.

They've defined organic food as food that contains or was treated without any additional antibiotics, hormones, genetic modifications, radiation, or hazardous pesticides, fungicides or preservatives.

At City of Hope, we are developing novel interventions, built on our expertise in understanding the complex genetic modifications that cause complications.

To further facilitate genome editing in pigs, we report here establishment of a pig line with Cre - inducible Cas9 expression that allows a variety of ex vivo genome editing in fibroblast cells including single - and multigene modifications, chromosome rearrangements, and efficient in vivo genetic modifications.

He's developed a tool to make sure that genetic modifications we've made to plants and animals don't spread into the wild.

But it's more than a cool party trick — the University of Minnesota postdoc may have come up with a tool to make sure that genetic modifications we make in plants and animals don't spread into the wild.

However, any data obtained from iPS is a combination of effects of the disease's genetic mutation and the recombination - related genetic modifications (often random).

Genetic modifications in skin cells (above) induced the cells into what scientists call a pluripotent state — a condition that is essentially the same as that of embryonic stem cells.

JAX will deliver all the animals with confirmed genetic modifications resulting from the microinjection.

The genetic modifications enable the salmon to produce a continuous low level of growth hormone.

More than 40 other countries have passed laws or signed treaties banning human genetic modifications that can be inherited.

It is now possible to introduce mice strains (known as «knockout mice») in which specific genetic modifications can be activitated at specific times, or in specific cells or organs.

The next step is to ensure that these kind of genetic modifications don't negatively affect plants, said Mads Torry - Smith, director of research and development in the biomass applications division of Novozymes, who was not involved in the study.

Like other microorganisms, this pathogen underwent genetic modifications through the course of evolution that enabled it to adapt to its environment.

Genetic modifications that respond to hormones in the womb may explain the development of homosexuality.

These researchers wanted to observe the effects of citrus flavanones for the first time on mice with no genetic modifications and that were fed a high - fat diet.

«Our next aim was to produce genetic modifications to the cells, such as occur for example in innate immune deficiencies,» says Johannes Roth.

The parliamentary committee's recommendation that industry must provide serious assessments of the potential risks of genetic modifications is likely to be a political hot potato.

«Compared to other ways of trying to develop stem cells to treat blood diseases, this method is safer and quicker, because it does not involve using any artificial substances or any genetic modifications, merely a substance that already exists inside the body,» explains Kenichi Miharada.

The origins of maize have long intrigued geneticists, but only recently have new molecular methods enabled evolutionary sleuths to pinpoint its origins and identify the genetic modifications (GMs) that enabled the radical transformation of teosinte into contemporary maize.

Just recently a handful of studies stirred the scientific community by showing that epigenetic marks indeed can be transmitted over generations, but exactly how, and what effects these genetic modifications have in the offspring is not yet understood.

The genetic modifications could help researchers develop treatments for infertility, but the alterations would not themselves form the basis of a therapy.

«In this study we have identified the genetic modifications of the species which make this possible,» he said.

Genetic modifications become an indistinguishable element of DNA in targeted muscles.

Identifying genetic modifications underlying wheat's domestication requires knowledge about the genome of its allo - tetraploid progenitor, wild emmer (T. turgidum ssp.

In addition to helping farmers check crop health, the new system will be helpful for studying how plants respond to changes in growing conditions and for high - throughput phenotyping, an automated method used in crop research and development to analyze how genetic modifications affect plant characteristics such as leaf size or drought resistance in a large number of plants.

It's cheap and effective, and in many cases, it works much better than older methods for making genetic modifications.

By means of targeted genetic modifications, the research team succeeded in steering the degree of entanglement between pili and hence the interaction forces between cells.

The researchers are using multidisciplinary approaches to make genetic modifications linked with all three traits, with the aim of improving sorghum for renewable energy and chemical production.

Genetic modifications become an indistinguishable element of the DNA in targeted muscles.

Importantly, genetic modifications blocking alternative splicing of Cdc42 in mice result in incorrectly formed axons and dendrites and, ultimately, structural and behavioural abnormalities.

The program also provides communication resources for scientists encompassing topics such as behavioral genetics, genetic modifications, population growth and the environment, the origins of life, and more.

It's not necessarily true all genetic modifications are bad.»

Today all new viral strains used to make vaccines must be generated by specific artificial genetic modifications rather than by «breeding,» so as to prevent possible reversion back to a virulent form.

The company is also investigating genetic modifications to allow crops to cope with heat as the world gets warmer, and, ironically, to cope with colder temperatures, as well.

Why do the villainous executives behind the genetic modification company think it's a good idea to do dangerous science experiments in space?

Nor should it blind us to the fact that the GMO category is both over-inclusive and under - inclusive if what you're worried about is potentially - harmful forms of genetic modification.

At a talk last July organized by the Long Now Foundation, Raoul Adamchak, who teaches organic farming at UC Davis in California, argued some of the resistance to genetic modification has to do with the reputation of the companies involved.

To that end, the UCS has put work into showing modern plant - breeding techniques can compete with genetic modification technologies.

On the other hand efforts at genetic modification of seeds, plant and animal life can lead to dangers to human life itself as seen in the recent instances of the mad cow phenomenon in Britain and the pollution of chicken meat due to the dangerous chemicals in their feed.

Science continues to compile more and more experimental data to support evolution, genetic modification, and the big bang theory of the universe.

Critics of genetic modification in humans fear such a move would start something of a slippery slope leading to «designer» babies — parents could basically pick eye color, size and maybe even personality traits.

Religious thinkers hold these general positions with differing degrees of intensity and emphasis in defining their positions regarding the genetic modification of cells and the new reproductive technologies that seek eugenic solutions to procreative problems.

Would he be concerned about the genetic modification of crops and not eat them, or would he just plow into it?

To get the USDA Certified Organic label, the NOP does not allow for genetic modification.

This new information about the unintended effects of genetic modification was not detected in previous investigations.»

Genetic modification is not to be confused with plant breeding and hybridizing.

In genetic modification (or engineering) of food plants, scientists remove one or more genes from the DNA of another organism, such as a bacterium, virus, or other plant or animal, and «recombine» them into the DNA of the plant they want to alter.