Sentences with phrase «how gene regulators»

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Igoshin said that when the researchers set out to find how sporulation decisions were timed to the cell cycle, several studies including prior work by team members, provided a significant clue: Under starvation conditions, the activity of the master regulator gene had been shown to spike once per cell cycle.

The report recommends that the governing authorities, including research institutions, funders, and regulators, develop and maintain clear policies and mechanisms for how public engagement will factor into research, ecological risk assessments, and public policy decisions about gene drives.

Regulator genes help determine how other genes will express themselves, and the researchers suspected that some of these regulators might be making brain development more active in human embryos than in chimps.

Schosserer will be spending two months in the laboratory of Aric Rogers, Ph.D., at the MDI Biological Laboratory's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine studying the role that molecular regulators of gene expression play in longevity — and in particular how these regulators are affected by lower amounts of food or food with lower energy content.

«The extra information we get from looking at gene expression could help us make more informed decisions about how harmful a toxicant is, and it could give regulators a new direction that we should be pursuing in monitoring water quality.