Sentences with phrase «help human geneticists»

We also hope to help human geneticists to better understand this disease in people.

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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 dihuman genome in 2000, believes his company Human Longevity can uncover the diseases lurking within healthy individuals and help people live to triple diHuman Longevity can uncover the diseases lurking within healthy individuals and help people live to triple digits.

The genome of the Spirit Cave Mummy is significant because it could help to reveal how ancient humans settled the Americas, says Jennifer Raff, an anthropological geneticist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

«There are certain classes of genes that modern humans inherited from the archaic humans with whom they interbred, which may have helped the modern humans to adapt to the new environments in which they arrived,» says senior author David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.

Drosophila serves as a model organism that helps geneticists to decode the molecular fundamentals of cellular biology and unravel mechanisms that are conserved in human beings and other vertebrates.

This in turn should help geneticists work out the functions of human genes, many of which are likely to have sequences similar to those found in the nematode.

So geneticists have been focusing on the dog as a possible model for gene searches because this lack of sequence variation may help them circumvent a frequent problem with studies in humans.

But other lipids are known to guide cell migrations in human brain development, and geneticist Ken Howard of University College London suspects HMG - CoA reductase might help produce a similar lipid molecule or modify a protein that attracts the germ cells.

«It's very interesting work that should help us fill in the picture of how human migration is tied to the dissemination of leprosy,» says Daniel Hartl, a population geneticist at Harvard University.

Among the 54 Members featured in the book are a biologist and Nobel Laureate who helped decode DNA; an epidemiologist recognised for groundbreaking research on HIV prevention in women; a social scientist who nudged and cajoled into place the campaign to understand and contain HIV / AIDS in South Africa; a leading mathematics education proponent; a human geneticist whose work helped to clarify the origins of indigenous groups in Africa; one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology; and a leading immunologist and physician who pioneered higher education transformation in South Africa, in sometimes controversial ways.