Sentences with phrase «genetically manipulated»

More than likely, we see fewer exotics and even fewer of the specialty or genetically manipulated fish in the U.S. because of an increased global demand, specifically from emerging markets in the Far East and the Middle East.

Just like goldfish, koi are genetically manipulated to produce a pleasing blend of body, fins and color patterns.

The tails of this breed have never been surgically, or genetically manipulated to be shorter.

In the thousands of years since humans first domesticated dogs we have genetically manipulated them to socialize easily and to show friendliness almost indiscriminately.

Every year in the USA over 70 million animals are maimed, genetically manipulated, hurt, blinded, or killed as a result of animal testing;

Chickens have been genetically manipulated through selective breeding to now contain two to three times more calories from fat than from protein, and even skinless chicken may have more fat, and more artery - clogging saturated fat, than a dozen different cuts of steak.

Nevertheless, one interesting study published in Nature last year is worth mentioning.6 The researchers genetically manipulated fruit flies to remove their ability to synthesize stearate (saturated stearic acid).

Soy (96 %), corn (74 %), cotton (95 %) and canola (98 %) are the most genetically manipulated crops.

Some of them have been genetically manipulated and so they actually produce their own chemical toxins and so when we eat them, we're eating a lot of that.

Because C. elegans has a simple nervous system and can be genetically manipulated quickly, the authors were able to screen dozens of genes — many more than were practical in previous studies using mice.

Genetic Roulette claims that effects seen by Fares and El - Sayed in 1998 with a traditional non-GM bacterial Bt toxin were also obtained with potatoes genetically manipulated to make that toxin.

has a simple nervous system and can be genetically manipulated quickly, the authors were able to screen dozens of genes — many more than were practical in previous studies using mice.

Pathbase is a database of histopathology photomicrographs and macroscopic images derived from mutant or genetically manipulated mice.

Furthermore, samples that have been genetically manipulated to alter the target's levels (e.g., CRISPR) can be used as a negative control.

After decades of work by scientists around the globe, researchers have genetically manipulated yeast to synthesize thebaine, an opiate substance that can be used to create many opioid drugs, and hydrocodone, a common semi-synthetic opioid drug.

These studies should show where the genetically manipulated TILs go to in the body, and how long they survive.

Doctors in the US have already begun their first tests of genetically manipulated cells in patients with cancer; comparable treatments for immune deficiency or Duchenne muscular dystrophy are much further off.

An article published on June 26th in PLOS Pathogens now reports that a mini antibody called 3D8 scFv can degrade (or chew up) viral DNA and RNA regardless of specific sequences and protect mammalian cells and genetically manipulated mice against different viruses.

In this study, they genetically manipulated cells and mice to produce 3D8.

So, instead, they genetically manipulated the genes that controlled the CDRs of the heavy chain - only antibodies, chopping them up and randomly mutating them to generate a varied library of binding sites for their biosensor.

Hayhurst believes his and Goldman's genetically manipulated antibodies will be able to withstand field use in hot, dry areas.

The researchers followed up with two experiments: in one, they injected vasopressin into the brains of mouse parents from both of the wild species, and in the other, they genetically manipulated vasopressin neurons in the brains of house mice (Mus musculus) to excite them.

Henikoff's team genetically manipulated the cells in their plants so that the cells they wanted to study — and only those cells — produced a particular protein that protruded from the nucleus.

The genetically manipulated agrobacteria, carrying the gene for PAT, were then used to infect the crop in which resistance was required.

A rodent virus is especially exciting as mice can be genetically manipulated to study how the immune system reacts to the virus.

He says that a rodent virus is especially exciting as mice can be genetically manipulated to study how the immune system reacts to the virus.

By 2003 other scientists had genetically manipulated mice to be relatively insensitive to either insulin or insulin - like growth factor; in both cases, the genetically engineered mice lived significantly longer than normal mice.

And it seems clear that when fruit flies are either fed antioxidants or genetically manipulated to overproduce their own, they live up to 50 percent longer than normal.

Lambs produced from the genetically manipulated cells produce foreign proteins; such animals may be able to manufacture large quantities of medically valuable human proteins in their milk.

Moreover, Dolly's birth did not prove that cloning could be used to create animals from cells that had been genetically manipulated.

While Nagy can get piggyBac to jump back out of his iPS cells, regulatory authorities considering the safety of experimental therapies are likely to remain nervous about cells that have been genetically manipulated.

The treatment is a type of so - called CAR T - cell therapy — taking a patient's own immune cells, called T cells, genetically manipulating them to attack specific proteins on cancer, and infusing them back into the patient.

During my third year, I had grand ambitions to genetically manipulate plants, only to discover that after treating thousands of seeds, I obtained just one plant I could use for experiments.

Another strategy has been proposed that would involve genetically manipulating the fish so that females only produce male offspring.

Some scientists study cells, called primary human trophoblasts, that are isolated from placentas obtained after childbirth, but such cells do not divide, can be more difficult to obtain, and are more difficult to genetically manipulate to learn about biochemical pathways that have a role in placental function, Dr. Coyne said.

Animals such as mice and flies are relatively easy to genetically manipulate.

One stumbling block has been fears about irreversibly genetically manipulating the brain.

In the current study, the approach involved genetically manipulating such stem cells to become stable immortalized lines of platelet - producing cells called megakaryocyte progenitors.

However, a key challenge of using AAVs for neuroscience research is the lack of a method for genetically manipulating neurons throughout the whole brain.

This is the notion of the «daughterless gene» - that we could control populations of invasive animals (like carp, toads etc) by genetically manipulating their sex - determining systems.

UC Irvine researchers have discovered a dramatically improved method for genetically manipulating human embryonic stem cells, making it easier for scientists to study and potentially treat thousands of disorders ranging from Huntington's disease to muscular dystrophy and diabetes.

* Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Yamanaka did not genetically manipulate the skin cells used to make iPS cells in 2006.

At JAX's new Alzheimer's Disease Precision Models Center, Howell is genetically manipulating mice to understand how unhealthy lifestyle habits trigger immune responses in the brain, leading to a cascade of events that may ultimately impair thinking and memory, as in Alzheimer's disease.

Of course, some would argue that the industry has already gone too far by cloning cats and genetically manipulating fish, and maybe they're right.

Not exact matches

Many universities and pharmaceutical companies are engaged in research and development using genetically modified mice that have certain genes manipulated to reproduce human diseases.

«The manipulated snails went on to produce offspring with genetically determined handedness.»

«This means knowing the ensemble of its genes and being able to manipulate or mutate them in a variety of ways to better understand aging and diseases of old age,» says senior author Dr. Anne Brunet, professor of genetics at Stanford School of Medicine, who has made the genetically engineered fish available to the entire research community.

I think about that scene when I hear the way many of my environmentalist friends talk about genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, an ill - fitting term that has come to stand for plants, animals and other living things whose genes have been directly manipulated in the lab using the techniques of modern biotechnology.

While farming methods vary, traditional manipulated «agroecosystems» generally differ from natural ecosystems in six ways: maintenance at an early successional state, monoculture, crops generally planted in rows, simplification of biodiversity, plough which exposes soil to erosion, use of genetically modified organisms and artificially selected crops meanwhile agroecology tends to minimize the human impact.

Ramachandra and his colleagues propose to genetically modify diatoms by manipulating the genes that produce oil so that they enhance its production.