Sentences with phrase «human gene arrays»

They have made possible wholesale scans that turn up new gene modifications and variations, and the same should prove true for the new human gene arrays, says Joseph Ecker, a plant scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, who has helped pioneer whole - genome chips for Arabidopsis.

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On the contrary, he finds it useful to ponder an array of reductionist attempts to explain the existence of religion, from that which seeks to pinpoint the area of the human brain or the specific genes connected to religiosity to that which sees religion as a malfunction of the human mind or a vestigial remnant from a primitive stage of human development suitable only for whimpering, immature dullards (a point of view championed by the new atheists).

The Duke researchers who made this discovery say it may help explain how a relatively small number of genes can create the dazzling array of different cell types found in human brains and the nervous systems in other animals.

For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.

Two recent studies — one in mice and another in humans — provide new evidence that a mind - numbingly complex array of genes influence body weight.

He identified dozens of genes staph had snatched from a wide array of organisms, ranging from fellow bacteria to humans.

The company now has an array of fully human antibodies in its pipeline created with its proprietary VelocImmune mouse, which has been engineered to express human antibody genes while still mounting a robust immune response by making antibodies with fully human variable regions and mouse constant regions.

mRNA expression was analyzed in adipose tissue from discordant twins using GeneChip Human Gene 1.0 ST arrays (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA) according to the manufacturer's recommendations.

Array CGH provided a much better look at the gene content on the chromosomes of human embryonic stem cells, with a resolution about 100 times better than standard clinical methods.

Using novel gene - array technology to measure the extent of gene expression in thousands of genes simultaneously, this study shows that as humans diverged from their ape ancestors in the last five million years, genes for transcription factors — which control the expression of other genes — were four times as likely to have changed their own expression patterns as the genes they regulate.

For custom gene expression projects the Genomics Core has a platform that uses sets of human and mouse custom arrays whose probe content is aimed at gene expression studies in the areas of cancer, immunology and other complex diseases.

Gene expression profiles measured using human genome Affymetrix Gene Chip arrays were grouped by hierarchical clustering, and correlation coefficients were computed for all pair-wise comparisons (Fig. 4A).

Human cancers exhibit a diverse array of genomic gains and losses that alter the dosage of hundreds of genes at once.

«For DNA arrays involving human genes, we're talking about analyzing 18,000 segments of DNA,» he said.

By analyzing genome sequence data from human populations, including 1269 individuals from sub-Saharan Africa, we identify a diverse array of large copy number variants affecting the host invasion receptor genes GYPA and GYPB We find that a nearby association with severe malaria is explained by a complex structural rearrangement involving the loss of GYPB and gain of two GYPB - A hybrid genes, which encode a serologically distinct blood group antigen known as Dantu.

The human microbiome — the diverse array of bacteria, yeast, parasites, and other single - celled organisms that live in and on our bodies — is comprised of more microbes than there are stars in the galaxy, and the genes encoded in microbiome DNA vastly outnumber our own genes.