Sentences with phrase «geneticists call»

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

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.

With an initial population in the several hundreds, the situation was ideal for what geneticists call genetic drift and founder effects.

This is what geneticists call «reverse genetics»: identifying an organism's genotype (genetic code) before seeing its phenotype (physical trait).

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

A story in Medical Observer (registration required) also reported on geneticists calling for GPs to resist patient pressure for unnecessary genetic tests.

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Lalueza - Fox, an evolutionary geneticist at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, got a call inviting him to examine the skeletons» DNA.

Removing the viruses — called porcine endogenous retroviruses, or PERVs — creates piglets that can't pass the viruses on to transplant recipients, geneticist Luhan Yang and colleagues report online August 10 in Science.

At a think tank meeting about autism several years ago, molecular geneticist Simon Gregory spoke with mainstream and nonconventional doctors about oxytocin, the so - called «love hormone» that some doctors were using to treat symptoms of social disconnection in children with autism.

That was the reasoning of behavioral geneticist Danielle M. Dick of Virginia Commonwealth University, who, with 13 other scientists from around the world, has been exploring a gene called CHRM2.

At Harvard University, geneticist David Reich is applying a technique called admixture mapping to study the history of people of mixed descent, analyzing stretches of DNA to see where they come from and when mixing first occurred.

Geneticist Iosif Lazaridis of Harvard Medical School in Boston, who studies how and when ancient populations mixed, calls the new results «a big accomplishment.»

Previous studies of a skin pigmentation gene called MC1R had led many geneticists to think that dark skin colour — which is thought to protect against UV damage — is a fixed and consistent trait in all people of African descent.

A team led by Stanford developmental geneticist David Kingsley has been trying to unravel how a strain of mice called ank develop progressive ankylosis, or fusion of the bones, which completely immobilizes, and eventually kills, the animals by about 6 months of age.

Caloric restriction, sometimes called dietary restriction, may really work through cutting protein, specifically the sulfur - containing amino acids found in many proteins, say Mitchell, a biochemist and geneticist, and his colleagues.

A Kansas State University wheat geneticist is part of a breakthrough study that identifies one of the wheat genes that controls response to low temperature exposure, a process called vernalization.

The ability to retain salt — controlled in part by a gene called CYP3A5 — varies by latitude, according to geneticists at the University of Chicago.

Geneticists have deciphered the genetic code of the world's most studied microorganism, a bacterium called Escherichia coli.

This so - called Fisher information, named after geneticist and statistician Ronald A. Fisher, explicitly and universally quantifies the sensitive dependence of a given quantum mechanical state on the metrologically relevant parameters.

«This discovery explains what breeders call the maternal grandsire effect,» said co-senior author Doug Antczak, equine geneticist at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine.

The approach hadn't seemed within close reach until geneticists last year demonstrated gene drive in fruit flies and yeast by harnessing a gene - editing technique called CRISPR / Cas9.

THE METHODS In 2000, Gerard Karsenty, a molecular geneticist at Columbia University in New York City, discovered that leptin, a hormone made by fat cells, helps mold and repair the skeleton by acting upon bone - building cells called osteoblasts.

Geneticist Dana Carroll of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who was at the Napa meeting, says that it will call for discussions of the safety and ethics of using editing techniques on human embryos.

His students and postdocs call them the Lost Years: those 2 years in the»70s, long before he ever pondered the charms of a wriggling worm named Caenorhabditis elegans, when Harvard geneticist Gary Ruvkun lived the life of a long - haired hippie nomad.

Geneticist Fred H. Gage and his team at Salk looked at a type of mobile element called LINE - 1.

Not quite ushering in the eagerly awaited era of the $ 1,000 personal genome, the new service, called deCODEme, will cover less than 0.1 percent of the three billion units of the full genome, which remains a bit too pricey for most people to have sequenced — unless they are geneticist - entrepreneur J. Craig Venter.

Ideogram To simplify the information gained from karyotypes, geneticists developed a schematic diagram, called an ideogram, to represent each chromosome.

When geneticist Jacqueline Campbell's postdoc funding was coming to an end, she came across a job ad that seemed to tap into an inner calling.

American geneticist Calvin Bridges discovered copy number variation in 1936, when he noticed that flies that inherit a duplicate copy of a gene called Bar develop very small eyes.

Similarly, animals with inactive versions of another member of the pathway called chico flit into extreme dotage, report geneticists Linda Partridge and David Gems of University College London and colleagues.

Liu says his first reaction to a recruiting call from Jackson's leaders was, «I thought maybe they had the wrong person [because] I'm not a mouse geneticist.»

«It is great to see that what we call the standard model of human evolution gets confirmation from entirely separate evidence,» says population geneticist Luca Cavalli - Sforza of Stanford University in California, the first researcher to trace human migrations with DNA.

Stringer: Well, it is certainly, it a stance that I have argued for a long time, but on the other hand, to be fair to the geneticists there are some who, I mean, Henry Harpending has just published a book called, I don't know, The Last 10,000 years of Human Evolution [or something like that], where he argues that in fact Neandertals did contribute, and he is a distinguished geneticist.

Leslie Kozak, a molecular geneticist at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, calls the experiment «elegant,» but he says that «the application is really a long way off — if ever.»

Recently, clinical geneticists reported that faulty copies of a gene called Cx 26 cause about 35 % of all cases of deafness.

Although their research has been performed in a weed called «Arabidopsis thaliana», the work horse of plant geneticists, the team is confident that their discovery can be used for the protection of crops from their enemies.

In most zoos the keepers call in the zoo veterinarian but they can also get help from other specialists like behavior experts, pathologists, dentists, ophthalmologists, cardiologists and geneticists.

That search led to a contact at Johns Hopkins University, and a few days later, Joho got a call from a cancer geneticist co-leading a study there.

The difficult - to - obtain ancient DNA was extracted from a tiny ear bone — called the petrous — by a team led by Losif Lazaridis and David Reich, two population geneticists at Harvard Medical school.

Even if you aren't currently called a geneticist, that doesn't mean you can't be one.

Michael Talkowski, a geneticist at Massachusetts General Hospital, has looked into so - called balanced chromosomal abnormalities (BCAs), which are small inversions, translocations and insertions of genes.

His collaborators include geneticist and former Energyne employee Kate Caldwell (the gifted, Oscar - nominated Naomie Harris, not breaking a sweat) and mysterious government operative Agent Russell (a very amusing Jeffrey Dean Morgan) who gets to say things like «when science soils the bed, I'm the guy called in to change the sheets.»

For human resources, the doctor calls on his astronaut buddy Ben (Michael Chiklis); Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), who is currently working as a geneticist for Victor's company and is also Reed's ex-girlfriend; and Storm's younger brother Johnny (Chris Evans).

A geneticist has called for improvements in what children are taught about genes because pupils could be picking up outdated myths.

To maintain the purity of their canine national treasure, Turkish government officials assigned an accomplished group of geneticists to undertake a process called selective genetic management to ensure the continuation of only the purest lineage.

Given the repetition of a single DNA marker in pedigree Kangals, called haplogroup D, geneticists agree this link to be the truest genetic connection to the beginning of this breed.

There is one group of breeds that have been described by the geneticist and are called the ancient breeds.

There is one group of breeds that have been described by the geneticist what called the ancient breeds.

Dr. Lennart Swenson, geneticist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, calls our attention to the fact that it is relatively easy to define «normal» and segregate them from «affected» (dysplastic elbows), and select our breeding stock from the former class.