Sentences with phrase «genetic research shows»

Recent genetic research shows that there were multiple interbreeding events.

Not exact matches

Research being done surrounding CRISPR Cas9 and genetic engineering are also showing numerous potential ways to increase human lifespan.

Research shows there's heritability in these traits, and some genetic determinants of these personality characteristics.

Scientists, of which I am also one, have researched everything from the parting of the sea to our own genetic imprints showing that we are all built with an instinct of faith and an afterlife.

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.

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.

It's all a work in progress and even though research shows there are things you can do to help a kid be less picky (and research also shows there's genetic component to it all) nothing replaces the work of exposing kids in a pleasant atmosphere over the years.

The research also will investigate male / female athletes» willingness to have genetic testing that may show links to the repair and recovery of brain cells after concussion.

Longitudinal research using these techniques shows that although genetic factors primarily account for developmental continuity, some evidence can be found for genetic contributions to change, especially during the transition from early to middle childhood (Fulker, Cherny, & Cardon, 1993) and perhaps from middle childhood to late adolescence (Loehlin, Horn, & Willerman, 1989).

And new research shows how genetic alterations in this odd - colored blood have helped the octopus colonize the world's wide oceans — from the deep, freezing Antarctic to the warm equatorial tropics.The iron - based protein (hemoglobin) that carries oxygen in the blood for us red - blooded vertebrates becomes ineffective when faced with low - oxygen levels.

The genetic studies provide greater context for archaeological evidence found in the Americas: The research shows that the incredible diversity of cultures and languages among the native people of the Americas developed in place.

«Genetic limits threaten chickpeas, a globally critical food: New research shows promise in improving crops with use of wild relatives.»

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.

Investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) report pre-clinical research showing that a genetic variant encoded in neutrophil cystolic factor 1 (NCF1) is associated with increased risk for autoimmune diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis, and Sjögren's syndrome, in the January 2017 issue of Nature Genetics.

However, new research out of York University has now shown that these drugs also reverse a number of potentially detrimental genetic changes associated with heart disease.

The study involved participants of European descent exclusively, but co-author Roy Perlis, a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, notes it's standard method to focus on one group as a starting point, since previous research shows genetic markers can vary by ethnicity.

Professor Peter Naredi, the ECCO scientific co-chair of the Congress, who was not involved in the research, commented: «In my view Dr Brastianos and colleagues very elegantly show what we mean with precision medicine, how genetic profiling can support our understanding of the metastatic process and how it opens up different pathways for treatment.

Research has shown that the activity level of HIV's genetic material strongly influences whether the virus remains active or whether it becomes dormant.

Research presented today at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology shows promising data about a device that helps people who have lost their vision due to a blinding genetic disease to recognize common objects.

Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Institute for Research on Cancer and Ageing of Nice in France, show that high genetic diversity can prime new mutations that cause drug resistance.

Multiple research projects have shown that about half of the variation in people's body mass index can be attributed to genetic factors, while the rest is due to environmental factors, including diet and exercise.

Past behavior genetics research using twin study survey data has shown genetic influence on a wide range of communication behaviors.

Bru Cormand, head of the Research Group on Neurogenetics at the Department of Genetics of the UB, affirms that «studies made with monozygotic (genetically identical) and dizygotic twins show that genetic factors play a major role in the aetiology of the disease.»

Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey shows that the RUNX2 protein, which regulates the transcription of genetic messages responsible for the different functions of cells, may play a role in melanoma cell growth and spread and could serve as a therapeutic target for the disease.

Using their new knowledge, the research team showed that the genetic cause of LP is linked to whether people get scleroderma or not.

The research team showed that extra genetic material on chromosome number 8 caused the condition in two families from Manchester.

However, they show considerable genetic overlap with present - day domesticated lines from the region,» explains Nils Stein, who directed the comparison of the ancient genome with modern genomes at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, with the support of Robbie Waugh and colleagues at the James Hutton Institute, Dundee, Scotland, and Gary Muehlbauer, University of Minnesota, USA.

In fact, the research showed that 62 % of the differences between individual students» GCSE scores were attributed to genetic factors.

«Our research shows that these fish have adapted to life at different depths, and that they segregate by depth as they mature, based on their genetic makeup.»

New research shows that the response to medical treatment depends on genetic factors.

Some research has shown that the drug can cause genetic changes in fish.

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The research also showed how genetic mutations build up in the cancer as it develops over time, as the leftover cancer cells grow and spread.

Professor Jeremy Pearson, Associate Medical Director at the BHF, which part - funded the study, said: «By using the power of very large scale genetic studies, this research is the first to show that the known association between increased height and a lower risk of coronary heart disease is at least in part due to genetics, rather than purely down to nutrition or lifestyle factors.

«We've also shown that genetic risk factors contribute to the most troublesome and long - lasting eczema, so these patients can be our focus for future research to improve care.

For the public, the research shows that paternal aging may exacerbate genetic risks — this could explain why there is a rapid rise in the ratio of children with ASD or ADHD, due to men having children later in life.

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

Research at STRI has also shown that, as with humans, microbes stimulate plants» ability to defend themselves and has demonstrated the magnitude and extent of endophyte effects on host genetic expression.

Research on the geographically based genetic differences in Helicobacter pylori show that the stomach bacteria is intimately tied to man

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

But preliminary research has not shown any evidence of genetic changes, and the government of Saudi Arabia, where most of the new cases occur, says the sudden upswing is mostly the result of more widespread testing.

Subject areas, such as genetic discrimination, patient (and research participant) right to privacy, and ownership of genetic material and data, showed both the negative ways scientific information can be used and some of the gray areas that confront researchers every day.

The Neurogenomiks research group, linked to the Achucarro Basque Centre for Neuroscience (EHUgroup) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU), has just had a research article published in the scientific publication Journal of Immunology; it details how they have managed to show that the gene known as ANKRD55 produces 3 different transcripts of the messenger RNA, and that the genetic variant associated with MS greatly increases the production of these transcripts.

Last November, however, a team led by Mihael Polymeropoulos of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, reported that the disease afflicting the Italian family, which develops at an unusually early age, showed strong genetic linkage to a region on chromosome 4.

For example, Ebers says, the new research also shows that the IL7R variant associated with increased MS risk is present in 70 % of people of European descent, suggesting that many other genetic factors are involved because few of these people contract MS. «The most striking finding,» Ebers says, «is the degree of genetic influence [on MS] that remains unexplained.»

But new research shows the cuddly bird and the powerful feline share an unfortunate fate: Though their numbers have stabilized or are even rising, some populations are suffering from profound genetic isolation or loss of genetic diversity — enough in some cases to leave them deeply vulnerable to new diseases and other threats.

Dr Louise Wain, Associate Professor in Genetic Epidemiology who led the team of analysts at the University of Leicester added: «The research shows the value of the UK Biobank study and of «big data» for making discoveries that will improve health.

«Our society attributes the weight gain and lack of exercise at mid-life (approximately 30 - 60 years) primarily to poor lifestyle choices and lack of will power, but this study shows that there is a genetic program driven by an overactive enzyme that promotes weight gain and loss of exercise capacity at mid-life,» said lead study author Jay H. Chung, Ph.D., M.D., head of the Laboratory of Obesity and Aging Research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of NIH.

Even our own research across a diverse group of young breast cancer survivors has shown that blacks and Hispanics have much lower testing rates, which may be the result of lower awareness and access to genetic testing among racial and ethnic minorities,» she said.

Of the 22 patients whose tumors successfully grafted, six died before data from the mice were available, but in 13 of the remaining 16 cases, there was a positive correlation between mouse and human results.2 In a second study, performed in collaboration with Manuel Hidalgo of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center, the team found that 6 of 13 patients with advanced solid tumors who were treated based on results from personalized PDX mice had partial tumor remissions, even in cases where genetic sequencing of the tumor showed no actionable mutations.3