Sentences with phrase «genetic research into»

Eddie Murphy stars as Professor Sherman Klump, a pleasant but hugely corpulent university professor doing genetic research into metabolism and weight loss.

Now that more people are doing fundamental genetic research into personality traits, this lends more credibility and credence to what we're saying.

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Research into how se - xual orientation in males may be determined by genetic or other prenatal factors plays a role in political and social debates about ho - mose - xuality, and also raises concerns about genetic profiling and prenatal testing.»

If it could be shown that research into human cloning would contribute to the well - being of the children and adults who already (or may someday) suffer from tragic genetic disorders (such as Down's syndrome or Huntington's disease) and that human cloning itself would benefit the children who are brought into the world through cloning.

In making a decision regarding research into human cloning, we must pay close attention to the benefits it would provide for those who suffer the worst genetic disorders; we must look closely at the possibility of some groups or individuals being exploited or neglected through human cloning; and we must keep before us the welfare of the children who would enter the world through cloning.

That question repeatedly popped into my mind as I read John H. Evans» Contested Reproduction, a carefully researched and parsed book about how Christians can effectively debate reproductive genetic technologies (RGT) in the public square.

Last September The War Cry noted that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) had agreed in principle to allow the mixing of animal and human genetic material for research into incurable diseases and that the resultant 99.9 per cent human mixture would be human bits, not human beings.

Research into genetic smell preferences is quite new and scientists are still determining the extent of personal differences.

What pet would you get for No10?We're probably far enough into our genetic research that someone should be able to knock me up a unicorn by now, right?

Britain on Monday granted its first licence for the genetic modification of human embryos as part of research into infertility and why miscarriages happen, in a move likely to raise ethical concerns.

Researchers from several institutions, including, UCLA, Boston University, Stanford University and the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife, analyzed blood samples from nearly 10,000 people to find that genetic markers in the gene responsible for keeping telomeres (tips of chromosomes) youthfully longer, did not translate into a younger biologic age as measured by changes in proteins coating the DNA.

Another argument for linking suicidal people together under a single diagnosis is that it could spur research into the neurological and genetic factors they have in common.

In my case, funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Precollege Science Education Program Initiative for Biomedical Research Institutions and the Science Education Partnership Award from the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health enable the Genetic Science Learning Center to provide postdoctoral training for research scientists transitioning into science education Research Institutions and the Science Education Partnership Award from the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health enable the Genetic Science Learning Center to provide postdoctoral training for research scientists transitioning into science education Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health enable the Genetic Science Learning Center to provide postdoctoral training for research scientists transitioning into science education research scientists transitioning into science education careers.

In 1978, he joined the then Agricultural Research Council's genetic manipulation programme, investigating ways to insert foreign DNA into plants.

BERLIN — In a provocative speech here last weekend, Nobel Prize - winner James D. Watson ventured into the ethical minefield of German genetic research and the legacy of Nazi eugenics policies.

Then, we present the results of our research into the nature, extent, and consequences of data sharing and withholding in the genetic and the life sciences.

Research published this month in Nature Neuroscience identified a surprisingly small set of molecular patterns that dominate gene expression in the human brain and appear to be common to all individuals, providing key insights into the core of the genetic code that makes our brains distinctly human.

Burton Andersen, chief of infectious diseases at the University of Illinois, Chicago, agrees that further research into the nature of the Yanomami's lack of an immune response would bolster the scientists» evidence: «It's certainly possible they [the Yanomami] never evolved any special genetic background to protect themselves.»

«Most previous research into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Celresearch into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the CelResearch (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Cell paper.

A recent report on genome editing from the National Academies did not call for a moratorium on research into germline editing, arguing that it might one day be a way for some parents to have healthy, biological children, such as when both mother and father carry genetic mutations that cause severe diseases.

Another key concern is the possible orientation of research towards human enhancement, going beyond disease prevention into the engineering of «desirable» genetic characteristics.

Research into the drivers of genetic diversity has largely focused on gene expression, which controls how much of a given protein will be made, when, and in what tissue.

Academic research into the cause of the disease went into a 20 - year stall, punctuated in 2006 by a press conference in which Reeves and the CDC's director at the time, Julie Gerberding, announced what they portrayed as a breakthrough discovery: CFS was caused by a genetic predisposition to difficulty responding to stress.

«Previous research that has detected parenting - related behaviors affect intelligence is perhaps incorrect because it hasn't taken into account genetic transmission,» Beaver said.

Your article on my research into the environmental and genetic factors that cause high rates of mesothelioma in the Turkish region of Cappadocia was excellent (13 April, p 34).

Your article on my research into the environmental and genetic factors that cause high rates of mesothelioma in the Turkish...

«Biologists peek into the past to see the future through tiny spider eyes: Biologists look to the past for early genetic development of tiny spider and insect eyes to find potential for research into human visual challenges.»

The ability to tap into a comprehensive genetic database opens up avenues for both research and treatment.

During my tenure at NCI, I redirected my research into expression genomics, an amalgam of cancer cell biology and comprehensive and massively parallel genetic technologies.

«The research provided us the deepest survey to date of great ape genetic diversity with evolutionary insights into the divergence and emergence of great - ape species,» noted Eichler, a UW professor of genome sciences and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

But research teams around the world have been trying, through selective breeding or genetic manipulation, to coax the coffee plant into omitting the caffeine in the first place.

«We live in an era of evidence - based medicine,» she says, so for her profession to mature, «it's becoming increasingly important for us to be doing research into understanding what the effects are of providing genetic counseling.»

«The type of research I did brought me into contact with a lot of families with genetic conditions and their clinical geneticists, and I became increasingly interested in the impact of the monogenic disorders in families,» Kenwrick says.

They could also reinvest some of their profits into non-profit genetic - based disease research.

«To date, research into resilience has tended to take into account a very extensive range of social, psychological, and even genetic factors that positively influence mental flexibility, such as social support, certain personality traits, and typical behavior patterns,» explained Professor Raffael Kalisch, one of the authors of the current publication and the director of the Neuroimaging Center, a central research platform of the Mainz University Medical Center and the Research Center on Translational Neurosresearch into resilience has tended to take into account a very extensive range of social, psychological, and even genetic factors that positively influence mental flexibility, such as social support, certain personality traits, and typical behavior patterns,» explained Professor Raffael Kalisch, one of the authors of the current publication and the director of the Neuroimaging Center, a central research platform of the Mainz University Medical Center and the Research Center on Translational Neurosresearch platform of the Mainz University Medical Center and the Research Center on Translational NeurosResearch Center on Translational Neurosciences.

Such a large pool of patient data would greatly facilitate research on ALTS and open new avenues of study into genetic aspects of other forms of laryngotracheal stenosis.

«We can combine our cells with genetic tools to introduce other functionalities into these living cells,» says Wen Wang, the paper's lead author and a former research scientist in MIT's Media Lab and Department of Chemical Engineering.

Related research by Carter and UNC colleague Richard Wolfenden, PhD, previously revealed how the intimate chemistries of amino acids enabled the first aaRS enzymes to fold properly into functional enzymes, while simultaneously determining the assignments in the universal genetic coding table.

«The decision represents an important step forward in the research into and the successful treatment of this and other genetic disorders,» he said.

A study by scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) is providing insight into the genetic basis of neuropsychiatric disorders.

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David Angelini, a postdoctoral fellow pursuing research into the developmental and genetic aspects of evolution (or «evo - devo») at the University of Connecticut, agrees.

Vtor A. P. Martins dos Santos of the German Research Center for Biotechnology and his colleagues broke the marine organism's genome into more than 3 million base pairs and then pieced them together into a complete genetic map.

But the work shows that research into complex genetic traits is getting off the ground.

The work, inspired by an investigation into a genetic form of the condition, has the potential to affect therapeutic research for millions of people suffering from progressive kidney diseases.

«No link found between subcortical brain volumes, genetic risk for schizophrenia: Proof - of - concept study provides roadmap for future research into possible associations between brain volume measures, known genetic risk factors.»

The research team, led by Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith, ordered short strands of genetic code from commercial DNA synthesis companies in the U.S. and Germany and stitched them into longer and longer strands using standard molecular biology techniques.

A few research groups around the world have experimented with ways to transfer the genetic material from an egg with faulty mitochondria into a healthy egg, either before or just after fertilization.

His research has convinced him that, with proper care, the contemporary human's genetic endowment will support a healthy life into the mid to late eighties.

The genetic techniques developed by Professor Sir Martin Evans and his two fellow Nobel Laureates have brought huge benefits, having been adopted in laboratories the world over for vital research into hundreds of diseases and disorders.