Sentences with phrase «how gene products»

Studies at the cellular level help us to understand how the gene products involved in learning and memory mediate physiological changes in the neurons that encode memories.

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By Lauren Kearney You may have first seen Gene Baur when he was featured talking about how not eating animal products changed his life in the inspirational pro-vegan film, Forks Over Knives.

Europe came through: Last year, Cory received a European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Installation Grant for his lab in mitochondrial biogenesis, and Gülayşe won a Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant from the European Commission to study how single genes can yield different protein products in neurons.

Tattersall explains how epigenetic effects on key genes cascade to produce radical morphological changes in an eye blink, and why our unusual thinking style, far from being the perfected product of long - term selective pressures, was bootstrapped out of existing abilities barely 100,000 years ago.

In his talk, Wieland Huttner, a molecular cell biologist and developmental neurobiologist at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI - CBG) in Dresden, Germany, explained how his team searched databases for proteins and other gene products expressed in the human brain in these earliest phases of development.

Genes use mRNA to tell cells to make products such as proteins — mRNA levels therefore reflect how active a...

A central biological concept that can explain how genes interact with environmental factors such as trauma on the molecular level is environmental epigenetics, the idea that we are not simply a product of our genes but also our experience.

How can a mutant gene whose product is found in every cell only sicken certain brain cells?

These alterations in non-coding DNA sequence can affect normal gene function, in addition to how much, when and where in the organism a melanocyte cell decides a gene product should be produced.

Also relevant are studies of the upstream mechanisms that regulate levels and function of those gene products, for example: how a transcription factor regulates multiple targets or how factors can regulate translation or post-translational modification of multiple proteins.

Within this framework, we study how chloroplast genes and metabolic activities are regulated by the products of nuclear genes, usually acting at the transcriptional or post-transcriptional level.

«Since then, scientists have greatly enriched our understanding of how the human genome is structured and regulated, and the traditional definition of a gene has expanded to include factors affecting molecular processes, structures, and products,» said Dr. Dougherty.

Some of those genes regulate the absorption of nutrients, others determine how nutrients are processed or how waste products are detoxified and eliminated; and still others, how and where metabolic products are stored.

Our research and product development teams continue to conduct studies investigating new compounds, as well as determining how our current products affect our companions at the most basic cellular level, including gene expression.

In spite of noted differences realized that the two sets of motor neurons share many features and appeared to be produced by very similar genetic programs, and gained understanding of how the product of this gene diverts the target specificity of an entire class of motor neurons by cloning and sequencing the gene.

More recently, culture — gene coevolution has emerged as an influential theory to explain how human behaviour is a product of two complementary and interacting evolutionary processes: genetic and cultural evolution (Cavalli - Sforza & Feldman 1981; Lumsden & Wilson 1981; Boyd & Richerson 1985).