Sentences with phrase «genetic research on»

We have completed groundbreaking genetic research on whale sharks, aided in South African penguin repopulation efforts and are pioneering economic based conservation efforts to save coral reefs.

To date, there hasn't been any in - depth genetic research on the Catahoula, so most of what is known about these dogs comes from experienced breeders and educated speculation.

They were conducting genetic research on the organisms of the planet with this new found energy source, phazon.

Luckily, DNA is pretty much the same whether it's in a monkey, bacteria or a corn plant, so when I got tired of doing research on things that screamed when you cut them, I turned to doing genetic research on plants.

The rapid progress in this field demonstrates the increasing impact of genetic research on treatment of genetic disease.

Dr. Ressler's lab focuses on translational research bridging molecular neurobiology in animal models with human genetic research on emotion, particularly fear and anxiety disorders.

His main interests are molecular genetic research on Parkinson Disease and related disorders.

Genetic research on living bears suggested that they settled their modern ranges in successive waves of migration.

Jessica Hamzelou reports genetic research on a family that doesn't feel pain (23/30 December 2017, p 14).

Genetic research on black bears has shown populations in southern Arizona are more closely related to bears in Mexico than those in northern Arizona.

By sequencing the genome of a Bactrian camel, researchers at the Vetmeduni Vienna have made a significant contribution to population genetic research on camels.

«Further genetic research on these rare and elusive animals may help illuminate the environmental history of the region, as well as bear evolutionary history worldwide — and additional «Yeti» samples could contribute to this work,» Lindqvist says.

Basic genetic research on human embryos already happens in many countries.

Dr Karthikeyan Thiyagarajan has been awarded the 2014 Vavilov - Frankel Fellowship to conduct genetic research on salinity - tolerant wheat varieties.

How can you have a debate when one side had observable data, evidence from all over the planet, genetic research on its side and the other has no evidence just magic?

Along the way she covers the problems with antipsychotic drugs, the complexities of genetic research on disease, and the surprising ways that culture shapes our experiences of and reactions to disease.

Not exact matches

The project's launch featured a prominent ALS patient and research advocate: Pat Quinn, co-founder of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, an initially - derided social media stunt that went on to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for ALS research and may have spurred important new discoveries about the disease's genetic roots.

Already its computing prowess is being used to process genetic research data 100 times faster; HPE engineers hope it will one day travel on Mars missions to empower far - flung astronauts to run experiments without contacting Earth.

He kept working on the machine learning techniques he had already been studying, but applied them to genetic research.

The firm's likely hoping to capitalize on a significant opportunity — the global direct - to - consumer genetic testing market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 20 %, from $ 117 million in 2017 $ 611 million by 2026, according to Credence Research.

Spending on genetic tests has reached $ 5 billion annually and is on track to reach $ 15 billion to $ 25 billion within a decade, according to a recent study commissioned by the research arm of UnitedHealthcare.

Angling to be the go - to marketplace for these gene - based businesses, Helix, the spin out from genetic testing research and technology giant Illumina, has held a first close on a planned $ 200 million funding round led by new investor DFJ Growth.

Over the past six months, I've been reading a stream of research papers that illustrate how accessible genomic sequencing is transforming our knowledge of genetic traits, our ability to treat according to genetic diagnosis, and challenge the status quo on how individuals benefit from genetics.

I'm not a psychologist, and am not up to the minute on the research in this field, but the last time I checked, being gay had not been proven as a genetic condition.

The group funds research on syringomyelia which can be genetic.

The authors discuss the awesome philosophical, theological and ethical questions regarding genetic manipulation that are being raised by research on the human genome.

«The forms of a living being are not but rather come to be,» says Ludwig von Bertalanffy (BW 120), and his «organismic» biology and later general system - theory for overcoming the opposition between mechanism and vitalism has given central insights of Whitehead a new formulation on the basis of science, 8 Something similar holds for all the directions of research which Jean Piaget has brought to the [264] concept of genetic structuralism.9 The genetic epistemology founded by Piaget has proved through empirical research on the problem of knowledge the fruitfulness both of genetic analysis and of Whitehead's principle of process.

Further, we pose the question of how the research results of Piaget's genetic theory of cognition could be significant for a critical review of Whitehead's position on the origin and range of ontological concepts.

Although much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors.

Such studies show that we are all walking genetic junkyards: Recent U.S. research suggests that every individual carries, on average, 313 disease - causing mutations.

Thus a new generation of Terminator research is focused on biological containment to prevent engineered genetic traits (transgenes) from spreading to non-GM food plants and wild relatives.

An understanding of the effects of birth weight and gestational age on the regulation of infant growth by genetic and environmental effects may assist in tailoring research, counseling, and possibly interventions in infant growth to specific subgroups in which attaining a health benefit is more likely.

Britain's future economic success depends on making better use of its cutting - edge scientific research in areas such as genetic experimentation and stem cell research, Chancellor Gordon Brown today.

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.

And researchers generally shied away from clinical research on any patented genes — a 2003 survey found that 53 percent of genetics labs decided not to develop a new genetic test because of a patent or license.

Now, new research has found several rare genetic mutations on the same gene that definitively connect the two.

Similar research since has found what may be the genetic signatures of Norwegian Viking Age mice in modern populations on the Azores, an island chain more than 900 miles west of Portugal.

Editor's Note (10/2/17): Seventeen years before the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three U.S. scientists for their research on biological clocks, one of them, Michael W. Young, set out an account in Scientific American describing the genetic studies that identified the «molecular timepieces» that are ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom.

The research, published on Oct. 13 in Genome Biology and Evolution, analyzes the genetic material of people living in the region today, identifying DNA sequences inherited from Neanderthals.

Whilst there I worked on a research project studying the genetics of inherited deafness and also performed routine genetic screening and prenatal diagnoses for diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis.

Oregon State University researchers are using DNA from residual saliva on partially consumed salmon to identify bears from the genetic samples, a significant boost to research on the population and health of brown bears.

The research is also the first to demonstrate beneficial effects of UDCA on dopaminergic neurons, the nerve cells affected in Parkinson's disease, in a fly model of Parkinson's disease which carries the same genetic change as some patients with the condition.

Previous genetic research found that soon after giant pandas began chomping on bamboo, they lost the ability to taste umami, the savory flavor in meat.

New research on HIV transmission shows that viral fitness is an important basis of a «genetic bottleneck» imposed every time a new person is infected.

«The results of this study shed light on the great complexity of factors that contribute to the physiological differences between people and allow us to better understand how genetic diseases develop,» explains Maria Gutierrez - Arcelus, first author of this article and member of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research Frontiers in Genetics.

She did her master's degree research project at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB), also in Warsaw, looking at the effect of genetic mutations on the function of an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of heme, using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism.

«The next step of progress is to use this knowledge to decipher what potential impact the genetic variants can have on the health of individuals, when we conduct health - related research,» added Professor Michael Pepper, Unit Director of the South African Medical Research Council's (SAMRC) Stem Cell Research and Therapy Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Presearch,» added Professor Michael Pepper, Unit Director of the South African Medical Research Council's (SAMRC) Stem Cell Research and Therapy Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of PResearch Council's (SAMRC) Stem Cell Research and Therapy Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of PResearch and Therapy Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria.

In the past month, leading research groups have posted to arXiv high - profile papers on the genetic history of southern Africans1 and Europeans2.

The first government - funded human genomics research study performed on African soil — aimed at unlocking the unique genetic character of southern African populations — has revealed a high level of genetic diversity.

«Fascinating genetic studies had been done on SMCHD1 that linked the gene to FSHD2, a rare muscular dystrophy involving the interaction of multiple genetic sites, but it had never been connected to craniofacial abnormalities,» says Michael Talkowski, PhD, of the MGH Center for Human Genetic Research, co-senior author of the Nature Geneticsgenetic studies had been done on SMCHD1 that linked the gene to FSHD2, a rare muscular dystrophy involving the interaction of multiple genetic sites, but it had never been connected to craniofacial abnormalities,» says Michael Talkowski, PhD, of the MGH Center for Human Genetic Research, co-senior author of the Nature Geneticsgenetic sites, but it had never been connected to craniofacial abnormalities,» says Michael Talkowski, PhD, of the MGH Center for Human Genetic Research, co-senior author of the Nature GeneticsGenetic Research, co-senior author of the Nature Genetics paper.