Sentences with phrase «geneticists who»

It has continued to puzzle geneticists who relied on the scientific principle that the environment does not affect the eggs and sperm's genetic information.

This event emboldened Lysenko and gave him and his ally Prezent free rein to slander the geneticists who still spoke out against him.

Although canine models of various cancers garner increasing interest as in vitro systems suitable for studies of basic biology and drug development, the fact that breed specificity is observed for many types of cancer has excited geneticists who are anxious to localize susceptibility genes that have proved intractable in human families and populations.

The ADGC is a collaborative effort of AD geneticists who are collecting more than 10,000 cases and 10,000 controls for such a study.

Drew Pardoll, director of the Bloomberg - Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Hopkins, and top researcher Suzanne L. Topalian took the unusual step of consulting with the cancer geneticists who worked one floor up.

Biologists, biochemists and geneticists who need to visualize the anatomical location of cellular structure, proteins / enzymes, mRNA, and reporter genes within whole tissue are among those who can benefit from this innovative product, which can be used with light microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, confocal microscopy and single / multiphoton microscopy.

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

So there are still some geneticists who argue somewhere there will be some surviv [ing] Neandertal genes but yes, I am with Svante Pääbo if you like on the conclusion at the moment, the evidence for interbreeding is very thin, it is minimal.

I would urge all the geneticists who signed the letter, several of whom I count as friends, to now read my book and judge to what extent, if any, their condemnation was justified.

To Cavalli - Sforza and other geneticists who joined him, the proposal was altruistic in creating a record for all humanity of its history at a time when many of the world's smaller populations were facing absorption into a globalized culture.

But one of the geneticists who performed the research says the conclusion is less certain, and according to others we are not even close to knowing the skin colour of any ancient human.

Hammer is among the minority of geneticists who have espoused the idea of gene flow between archaic and modern populations.

But you'd be hard - pressed to find the one of Jennifer Doudna, a geneticist who exactly fits the description above.

Craig Venter, the geneticist who mapped the first human genome in 2000, believes his company Human Longevity can uncover the diseases lurking within healthy individuals and help people live to triple digits.

J. Craig Venter, the superstar geneticist who mapped the first human genome in 2000, has a new challenge: decoding death.

J. Craig Venter, the geneticist who decoded the human genome, has been absorbed in the study of virii for a number of years.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress has launched an investigation into controversial human embryo studies conducted by Mark Hughes, a molecular geneticist who once worked at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

These allusions to the past aren't surprising considering how drastically the clinical trial changed gene therapy and, in particular, the career of James M. Wilson, the medical geneticist who headed Penn's Institute for Human Gene Therapy, where the test took place.

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

In the medical genetics department at Rienhoff's alma mater, a colleague introduced him to Bart Loeys, an expert physician and geneticist who found Beatrice had a split uvula, the projection of the soft palate at the back of the throat.

News that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has cut off funding for Mark Hughes, a geneticist who pioneered a technique for screening for mutations in the DNA of a single cell, has dismayed Hughes's colleagues.

And the mutation that bestows such remarkable longevity is a gene that happens to regulate activity in the insulin / IGF signaling pathway, says Robert Schmookler - Reis of the University of Arkansas, a molecular geneticist who discovered the relationship between the mutation and the superworm's extraordinary life.

Although the populations are closely related at present, Melanie Culver, the USGS geneticist who directed the work, points out that bears live a relatively long time, so the distinctions between the groups may show up in future generations.

The work involved a collaboration between UC Berkeley neuroscientist Diana Bautista, Ph.D., who runs a lab focused on the molecular basis of the sensations of itch, touch and pain, and Buck Associate Professor Rachel Brem, Ph.D., a geneticist who studies how and why traits differ between individuals.

The Pavlovsk Experiment Station, which is Europe's largest collection of fruits and berries, was established in 1926 by Nikolai Vavilov, the Russian botanist and geneticist who pioneered the concept of seed banks as repositories of crop diversity in case of threats to food production.

«The virus has never had this many human - to - human transmissions before, and there are a lot of mutations happening,» says Harvard University's Pardis Sabeti, an evolutionary geneticist who co-authored one of the papers.

«This is the most unique scenario of local adaptation that I had the pleasure of helping uncover,» says Alon Keinan, a population geneticist who led the evolutionary study.

In the last two years, J. Craig Venter, the geneticist who decoded the human genome, has circled the globe in his sailboat and sampled ocean water every couple of hundred miles.

Ian Dworkin, a geneticist who studies fly evolution at McMaster University, noted that in the literature of evo - devo research — which looks at the role of developmental mechanisms in evolutionary changes — examples of co-opted genes are abundant.

John Moran, Ph.D., the U-M and HHMI geneticist who led the work with Sandra Richardson, Ph.D., says the new finding gives scientists the first proof of a hypothesized defense strategy.

«The biggest problem here is releasing animals with no known origin,» says Juliana Machado Ferreira, a conservation geneticist who directs Freeland Brasil, an anti — wildlife - trafficking organization in São Paulo.

Her liver and spleen had bulged to more than four times their normal size, but «no one could figure out what was going on,» recalls Wang, a biochemical geneticist who directs the hospital's program for a group of rare inherited metabolic disorders that are notoriously difficult to diagnose.

«The minute you experience it it's impossible to step back and forget it,» says the functional geneticist who runs the skeletal disease program at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in Tarrytown, New York.

«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.

If such efforts succeed, says Robert Waterston, a geneticist who heads the genome sequencing center at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, the technique «could be the start of something impressive.»

Its president, Maurício Lopes, a geneticist who took office in October, has promised to build up research on biomass technology and double EMBRAPA's funding for that area, which today stands at a modest 24 million real per year.

The findings bolster the predominant hypothesis that amyloid accumulation is the primary culprit in Alzheimer's disease, says Alison Goate, a geneticist who studies Alzheimer's disease at Washington University in St. Louis.

If L1 does prove to have an important role in brain development, that would be surprising, says Haig Kazazian, a geneticist who studies retrotransposons at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Internet access «has definitely gotten worse,» says a geneticist who splits his time between institutions in China and overseas.

A Mexican geneticist who studied in the United States, she's the CEO of Código 46, a new company in Cuernavaca that plans to offer genotyping services for personalized medicine to Mexican clients starting next month.

J. Craig Venter is the geneticist who founded the nonprofit institute bearing his name.

George Church, a Harvard Medical School geneticist who published one of the early papers on the use of CRISPR on mammalian cells, pointed out that people in his field have been doing genetic modification for decades, and said there are already 2,000 gene therapy trials underway, none of which use CRISPR.

Suspicions that this close kinship played some role in their kids» problems led the two families to this clinic at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSHRC) and into the care of Fowzan Alkuraya, a young Saudi geneticist who had recently returned from the United States.

Each contributing centre has a nominated rare disease clinician or clinical geneticist who is responsible for overseeing data entry and membershipfor their centre.

Professor Gail Jarvik M.D., Ph.D. is an internist and medical geneticist who holds the Arno G. Motulsky Endowed Chair in Medicine and heads the Division of Medical Genetics at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Storfer, an evolutionary geneticist who has studied DFTD for nearly a decade, teamed up with colleagues in the United States, Great Britain and Australia to investigate whether there was a genetic component to some of the devils» survival.

September 29, 2015 University of Chicago geneticist John Novembre named 2015 MacArthur Fellow John Novembre, PhD, a computational geneticist who studies the evolutionary history and genetic diversity of human populations, has been named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow.

John Novembre, PhD, a computational geneticist who studies the evolutionary history and genetic diversity of human populations, has been named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow.

Daniel Nilsson, hospital geneticist who divides his time between research and clinical work at Karolinska University Hospital, was there as the representative from the SciLifeLab / KI team.

I read a nonfiction book some years ago by a geneticist who pointed out that there are many stops along the line that determines gender.