Sentences with phrase «handful of genes»

Other scientists (including Jay Keasling, last year's DISCOVER Scientist of the Year) are having great success adding handfuls of genes to E. coli and other microbes to make a variety of valuable products, including medicines and jet fuel.

For example, scientists have found that deleting a handful of genes could potentially increase human lifespan by 60 percent, which seems incredible.

But most existing funding was going toward sequencing the handful of genes most likely to lead to profitable drugs and gene therapies.

Now, for the first time, scientists have identified a handful of genes that might predispose people to synesthesia, offering a window to better understand disorders such as autism, which is also thought to involve abnormal brain connections.

At the time, a handful of genes were known to be involved in the engulfment of apoptotic cells but these were not sufficient to explain the whole process.

Instead, there are probably a handful of genes that work in ways as yet unexplained.

Despite high heritability estimates of 45 % in childhood and 80 % in adulthood, only a handful of genes had previously been associated with intelligence and for most of these genes the findings were not reliable.

Yet changing even a handful of genes takes huge amounts of time and money.

A handful of genes that control the body's defenses during hard times can also dramatically improve health and prolong life in diverse organisms.

Before this new study, only a handful of genes related to baldness had been identified.

«They've identified several novel areas,» he continues, noting, «they still have a handful of genes to look at and really pin down.»

So far, scientists have been able to listen to bits and pieces of the conversation between bacteria and individual immune cells or a handful of genes.

The male sex chromosome has long been called our genetic junkyard, a clutter of meaningless DNA surrounding a handful of genes — and those only good for making more men.

«This allows us to focus on the handful of genes that represent the most important players in the process rather than the whole transcriptome.»

Perhaps altering a handful of genes would be enough to turn us into superhealers, too.

Recent research suggests that these differences are likely the result of only a handful of genes.

What's more, they've identified a potential way to correct this process when it goes wrong by flipping the switch on just a handful of genes.

Researchers had already identified a handful of genes involved in this transformation.

It is only the handful of genes that differ, such as those defining blood group, which are useful for making maps.

What is more, only a handful of genes present in humans are absent or partially deleted in chimps.

But most existing funding was going toward sequencing the handful of genes most likely to lead to profitable drugs and gene therapies.

Examining a handful of genes, Keeling and other researchers demonstrated that the single - gene tree had put microsporidia in the wrong kingdom.

«The irony of all this,» says Steven Tanksley, a geneticist at Cornell University, «is all that diversity of heirlooms can be accounted for by a handful of genes.

Two independent studies have concluded that the sex chromosome, which shrank millions of years ago, retains the handful of genes that it does not by chance, but because they are key to our survival.

Two studies have concluded that the Y chromosome, which shrank millions of years ago, retains the handful of genes that it does not by chance, but because they are key to our survival.

Zimmer: E. coli is actually not very simple; it's tiny, but it has got about 4,000 genes; and, you know, there are other bacteria that just have a few hundred and, you know, viruses may have just a handful of genes.

In the last few years, researchers have found a handful of genes they suspect play a role in the rapid brain expansion that fostered human evolution [ScienceNOW 16 December, 2003].

By activating a handful of genes, they turn the developmental clock backward in adult cells, converting them into an embryolike state.

Transgenics and RNA interference breeding influence a handful of genes and can bring new products within a few years.

The team sequenced a handful of genes in the suspect region of chromosome 12 from 48 relatives within five PARK8 - afflicted families.

Whilst a handful of these genes including DOT1L, BCL2 and MEN1 are already established therapeutic targets, most of them are novel and open up many new possibilities for developing effective treatments against the disease.

Type 2 diabetes accounts for 90 % to 95 % of all diabetes cases, and over the past 6 years, researchers have linked a handful of genes to the disease.

They carry only a handful of genes for making new viruses, relying on their hosts» machinery to do the rest.

Something as subtle and complex as intelligence was never going to be pinned on just a handful of genes, as a huge trawl across the human genome seems to confirm.

Plasmids are rings of bare DNA containing a handful of genes that are essentially freeloaders, borrowing most of what they need to live from their bacterial host.

Gladstone scientists have identified the chain of events that causes healthy heart valves to harden like bone — and a potential way to correct this process by activating just a handful of genes.

The mutation, which was identified in three Arab - Israeli sisters with severe mental retardation, is one of only a handful of genes outside the X chromosome that have been linked to intellectual disability.