Sentences with word «geneticist»

«The pictures were stunning, but the paper fell quite short,» says Hendrik Poinar, a molecular evolutionary geneticist at McMaster University in Ontario.

«People have always asked us, «Could you unpool»» once the DNA has been mixed, says geneticist David Craig of the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, Arizona.

«It was a big challenge to extract the DNA sequences from the fossil mammoths and mastodons and then to line these up with DNA from the modern elephants,» says Nadin Rohland, an evolutionary geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston and the study's lead author.

Most of these studies are one - offs that show the potential of the techniques but not how to apply them to routine biodiversity surveys, points out Mehrdad Hajibabaei, an evolutionary molecular geneticist at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.

Until recently, most biologists thought that long - distance pollination occurred only rarely, with fewer than one plant in a hundred having parents separated by more than 100 metres, says Norman Ellstrand, a plant population geneticist at the University of California at Riverside.

The theory that all humans are descended from a recent African ancestor was promoted by geneticists who study living populations.The fossil record provides independent support for this model

The fat, eyeless cavefish harbor the same genetic mutation as people with an inherited form of severe diabetes and experience diabetes - like blood - sugar surges and crashes after eating, yet they are perfectly healthy, according to a study in Nature led by geneticists at Harvard Medical School.

Almost three - quarters of geneticists in our research said withholding was slowing progress in their field.

A team of plant geneticists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has identified a protein receptor on stem cells involved in plant development that can issue different instructions about how to grow depending on what peptide (protein fragment) activates it.

ASHG was founded in 1948 as the primary professional membership organization for human geneticists in the Americas.

Medical geneticists say it could be that jumping genes rearrange our mental structure.Jumping genes, or transposons, are bits of DNA that can move freely about the genome.

Robert Wildin, M.D., a clinical geneticist with nearly three decades of experience in private and hospital - based medical practice, joined the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) on Nov. 10, 2014 as chief of the Genomic Healthcare Branch (GHB).

«We can't start talking about improved treatments for Maya because diabetes is a very complex disease, involving lots of yet unknown risk factors, says Teresa Tusié Luna, a human geneticist who studies diabetes at the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition in Mexico City.

Kathryn North, a neurologist and clinical geneticist who led the study, suspects that its absence may make muscles contract more slowly and absorb nutrients at a lower speed, which is better for endurance.

Although this technique is not new and has been used by geneticists for quite some time, no general protocol has been previously published.

Indeed, as geneticist Michael Bevan of the John Innes Centre in Norwich, England told Science, the genome sequence from the humble thale cress, «will have as much impact as the human genome.»

Harvard University geneticist George Church has co-founded a new company to help individuals share and market their genomes.

Other researchers say that this new genome is important because «it is the first paper to document some degree of continuity among the first people to get to Europe and the people living there today,» says population geneticist David Reich of Harvard University, one of the authors on the triple migration model.

Based at the University of Leeds, Professor Tim Bishop is a leading cancer geneticist working on melanoma skin cancer.

Even Harvard molecular geneticist George Church got into the act, opining that DIYbio hobbyists should be licensed, much like amateur pilots, fishing enthusiasts, or shortwave radio operators.

The researchers» attempt to project evolution's direction is creative and ambitious, says behavioral geneticist Joseph Rodgers at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

In a second article appearing in the same journal, a team of geneticists studying the tobacco budworm moth discovered a recessive gene (BtR - 4) that provides resistance to Bt toxin.

Molecular support for the first theory came in 1997, when geneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, sequenced the DNA of a 30,000 - year - old Neandertal bone and found little overlap with the DNA of modern humans (ScienceNOW, 10 July 1997).

«More and more examples from the plant field [show] a time lag,» says Ingo Braasch, an evolutionary developmental geneticist at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

The Mainz - based team of geneticists working with Dr. Christian Berger has now discovered that growth starts earlier if the Hippo signaling pathway is deactivated, meaning the resting phase can no longer be correctly maintained.

«This study sets the standard for future research into admixtures between humans and earlier species,» says anthropological geneticist Mark Shriver of Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Such turnover is «pretty striking», says Garrett Hellenthal, a statistical geneticist at University College London who has studied the peopling of the island through the genomes of living Brits.

Edward Louis, the zoo conservation geneticist in Omaha, Nebraska, responsible for the finds, says this is just the beginning: «Lemurs, especially the nocturnal ones, haven't gotten the attention they've deserved.

After my big surprise, I chatted with Dr. Angela Hughes, a veterinary geneticist who explained how the short leg gene works and gave me some insights into the Wisdom Panel test.

Blood, sweat, and tears: Every researcher experiences them from time to time, but for Stanford geneticist Michael Snyder, they are at the heart of his work.

Human geneticists used this code to pinpoint variations that underlie human disease.

Pat Okubara, plant research geneticist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and WSU adjunct professor, said the team plans to sample the frequency of each type of yeast on grapes to learn how each species ties into good or poor wine quality.

Dr. Bishop is a molecular geneticist whose research focuses on DNA damage responses and the resultant genomic instability, a fundamental cause of cancer.

Now geneticists in Britain have hit upon a method of targeting these ultra-resistant cells.

On one side of the debate was a team led by breast cancer geneticist Mary - Claire King, who discovered the first inherited breast cancer risk gene, BRCA1.

And many, but not all, of shelter animals have the advantage of being mixed - breed animals that use what geneticists call «hybrid vigor» to avoid some of the health issues of purebred animals.

Most of the work initially focused on the genes that behavioral geneticists call the «usual suspects» — and it paid off.

Scherer and his colleagues, who included population geneticist Matthew Hurles of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, England, followed up with a higher - resolution CNV study in 2006, which analyzed DNA from 270 individuals and identified an average of 47 copy number variations per person.

Embark has the world's leading canine geneticists on - staff to help answer your questions, and make genetic discoveries to help us reach our mission of ending preventable diseases in dogs.

Then, in 2010, a team led by geneticist Svante Paabo announced stunning news.

The research is the first to detail the mechanism that connects a fever to birth defects, «and it will hopefully get people thinking about this,» says medical geneticist Richard Finnell of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who was not involved in the study.

After her residency and a research fellowship in the lab of cancer geneticist Stephen Baylin at Hopkins, Jackson returned to her beloved Ohio State University.

Terry: That's what I have read from other geneticists, and part of it has to do with Pottenger's work.

But failure to identify the detailed mechanism by which this happens has left many geneticists doubtful that it occurs at all.

It is a cautionary essay that tries to extol the real and formidable potential of genomic medicine but also attempts to counter what we see as exaggerated claims, said lead author medical geneticist James P. Evans, MD, PhD, Bryson Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Denby couldn't steal the genes directly from hops, because plant geneticists don't know which snippets of hops DNA code for those flavor molecules.

«The finding turns our view of the function of sex by 180 degrees,» says microbial geneticist Joseph Heitman of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Although this work is grounded firmly in clinical, community, and developmental psychology, lab members» approaches are interdisciplinary at their core, involving ongoing collaborations with sociologists, economists, and psychiatric geneticists from around Boston and beyond.

But the wealth of new gene sequences provided evolutionary geneticists Peter Keightley of the University of Edinburgh, U.K., and Adam Eyre - Walker of the University of Sussex in Brighton, U.K., with enough data for calculating reliable rates.