Sentences with phrase «geneticists do»

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.

Geneticists don't yet know what role the genes play in asthma, which afflicts about 16 million people in the United States.

Incidentally, this geneticist did not feel there is any relation to MTHFR and midline disorders.

What should a geneticist do if she fears that her research will be misused by future generations?

Not exact matches

Geneticist Svante Paabo told Science, in an article entitled «Relative Differences: The Myth of the 1 Percent,» «I don't think there's any way to calculate a number,» or at least a precise percentage, of differences between chimpanzees and humans.

Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith Edited by Francis S. Collins HarperOne, 2010 352 pp., $ 19.99 What kind of flowers does Francis S. Collins — one of the world's leading geneticists — gather?

Pearson undoubtedly felt more satisfied with a merely statistical account of resemblance's of individuals to their parents and more remote ancestors than did geneticists with a deterministic metaphysics.

Obviously, given what has gone before, he offers a different explanation of how the genotype is altered (mutations) than do contemporary geneticists.

To please regulators that would ultimately greenlight clinical trials, Moderna will have to show its drug is still safe at a dose 10 times higher than what's needed to treat the disease — something the new paper doesn't demonstrate, says geneticist Michael Heartlein, chief technical officer at the competing mRNA company Translate Bio in Cambridge.

Goss decided to do his Ph.D. at Harvard with Richard Lewontin, a population geneticist who used mathematics in his research.

Geneticist Maitreya Dunham didn't see it happen.

In 2012, Hardy, now at University College London, and a colleague, geneticist Rita Guerreiro, wrote an editorial in which they argued that TOMM40 did not independently affect Alzheimer's risk.

«She's not a human geneticist, so she didn't get the job,» says Michael Culbertson, chair of the Genetics Lab at UW Madison.

To do that, Harris Lewin, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of California, Davis, and colleagues compared 19 genomes of various mammals at different spots in the eutherian family tree, including several primates.

Back in the 1940s, geneticist Max Levitan of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City did his Ph.D. on the chromosomes of the eastern North American woods fly Drosophila robusta.

What's more, says John Crabbe, a behavioral geneticist at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Oregon who researches alcoholism in mice, just because an enrichment works for one type of disorder doesn't mean it should be applied to all.

Did they or their modern followers, the population geneticists, ever go look at what's happening in nature the way Darwin dDid they or their modern followers, the population geneticists, ever go look at what's happening in nature the way Darwin diddid?

Professor emeritus Marcus Pembrey, a 68 - year - old clinical geneticist at University College London's Institute of Child Health, did exactly that: He decided when he was 45 that he wanted to retire in 10 years» time.

This questions was quickly answered after consulting with the auxin geneticists Professor Klaus Palme from Freiburg and Professor Malcolm Bennett from Nottingham: «From a collection of mutants of the model plant Arabidopsis with an atypical response to the administration of auxin, one special mutant did not exhibit any IAA - mediated root hair depolarization,» Hedrich recalls.

But George Church, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, thinks there is a far quicker way: let evolution do all the hard work for us.

The findings also explain a mystery that has puzzled psychiatrists and evolutionary geneticists alike: if people with schizophrenia have, on average, fewer children than people without the disorder, why does schizophrenia still affect so many people?

«Functional germ cells are special because they do not contain a double set of chromosomes and are no longer capable of division,» says Professor Christian R. Eckmann, a developmental geneticist and Heisenberg Professor at MLU.

* Lead study author Kristi Miller - Saunders, a molecular geneticist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Nanaimo, has not been given the green light to speak freely with the press, however she did respond to questions from Scientific American via e-mail.

The Pfizer study, says Gary Ruvkun, a geneticist and molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, «basically says we don't see resveratrol doing anything.

Scientific American spoke with geneticist and oncologist Amanda Paulovich, director of the Fred Hutchinson's Early Detection Initiative, about the work she and her team are doing to find biomarkers that can identify cancer in its most formative stages.

The authors, led by geneticists Andrés Ruiz - Linares of Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and Garrett Hellenthal of University College London, trace a significant portion of this ancestry to conversos, or Jews who converted to Christianity in 1492, when Spain expelled those who refused to do so.

Women with two copies of s fared even worse: They had bones that were 4 % less dense — and faced a 280 % higher risk of fracture — than did women without any s alleles, says team member Andre Uitterlinden, a molecular geneticist at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Population geneticist Laurent Excoffier of the University of Bern in Switzerland agrees that Out of Africa is still the most plausible model of modern human origins, noting that the alleged admixture did not continue as moderns moved into Europe.

The work, now posted on the bioRxiv preprint server, was done by a large team led by geneticists David Reich and Iosif Lazaridis of Harvard Medical School in Boston and Wolfgang Haak of the University of Adelaide in Australia.

«Geneticists knew the modified plant could be more easily broken down, but they didn't have an atomic - level explanation that a supercomputer like Titan can provide.»

«All the sudden you can do these sorts of studies in scrub jays and other animals that are not a [laboratory] organism,» says Joseph Pickrell, an evolutionary geneticist at the New York Genome Center in New York City, who was not involved with the work.

Visitors are reminded that, from geneticists» perspective, human races don't exist.

«It's a nice story that solves a cool mystery — how did Neandertals end up with mtDNA more like that of modern humans,» says population geneticist Ilan Gronau of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel.

Still, the same studies have not yet been done with sugar, says Danielle Reed, a geneticist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia in the US.

William Rice, an evolutionary geneticist then at the University of California at Santa Cruz, did a wonderfully slick experiment in which he kept female fruit flies from evolving while letting the males compete against each other.

The gene's fall from leadership is the result of geneticists» growing attention to epigenetics — a form of genetic change that is essentially the gene's way of responding to its surroundings but which does not involve alterations in the gene's DNA.

«It's amazing that people don't get the safety issues» of gene therapy, says University of Pennsylvania geneticist H. Lee Sweeney.

The appointment of geneticist Francis Collins to direct the National Institutes of Health could soon be a done deal.

Co-author Andrea Manica, a population geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, has posted a note online explaining that incompatibility between two software packages used to compare Mota's genome with the reference human genome led the software program to simply drop certain DNA variants, with the result that all living Africans seemed to have inherited more «Eurasian» DNA than they actually did.

Archaeologists would want to mount a rescue dig — exactly what anthropological geneticists are doing these days.

«Geneticists certainly talked about the problem, but nobody was going to do anything about it until it slapped you in the face,» recalls Rockefeller University molecular geneticist Joshua Lederberg, who has consulted for the pharmaceutical industry since the 1950s.

The researchers don't yet know how exactly these genes influence social behavior in either bees or people, but manipulating the genes in honey bees may shed light on what they do in humans, says Alan Packer, a geneticist at the Simons Foundation in New York City, which funds autism research, including this bee work.

Things don't necessarily fall apart right away, says Polly Campbell, an evolutionary geneticist at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

Finding out why some hybrids make it and others don't may yield molecular details about how reproductive barriers between species are built, says evolutionary population geneticist Graham Coop of the University of California, Davis.

But the «critical flaw» in the new research is that it doesn't fully account for the fact that women suffering from psychiatric illnesses already have a greater risk of having children with ASD, says Roy Perlis, a psychiatric geneticist at Harvard University who consults for several biotechnology startups.

The finished atlas, Mazziotta says, will serve a purpose similar to what the Human Genome Project has done for geneticists, providing a detailed framework of the brain that researchers can use to perform experiments.

«The type of research I did brought me into contact with a lot of families with genetic conditions and their clinical geneticists, and I became increasingly interested in the impact of the monogenic disorders in families,» Kenwrick says.

Plant geneticist Ravigadevi Sambanthamurthi and her colleagues at the Malaysian Palm Oil Board in Selangor have been trying to understand why supposedly identical trees don't all produce equally good fruit for 30 years.

A team led by Gudrun Rappold, a geneticist at Heidelberg University in Germany, didn't have Turner's survivors in mind when setting out to find genetic abnormalities that might explain why 2 % to 3 % of all people are much shorter than their peers.

«We are doing a sort of molecular archaeology,» says cancer geneticist Ludmil Alexandrov of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, who led the analysis.