Sentences with phrase «humans some version of»

The reports suggest that there is a large risk of a human version of bird flu erupting in the near future, and show how this could be done in a laboratory.
It's because I kept asking questions that I left Christianity and, many years later, came back to a much more human version of it.
I am still a believer, though my faith has greatly changed into a more gentle and human version of 20 years ago.
You said: â $ ˜We are who we areâ $ ™ — the human version of â $ ˜I am who I amâ $ ™ --- Now that, my friend, really is a «crock.»
The only «human version of «I am who I am» is Jesus as he walked this earth.
The idea that I'm going to pick someone and tell them all the deep dark secrets of depravity that exist in my soul, and ask them to police me into being a better person — like a human version of Internet filter software — sure isn't a pleasant thought.
I'm like a human version of Netflix's «Suggestions For You.»
The prion protein responsible for the human version of BSE is twice as common in the UK as the previous best estimate, suggests the biggest survey yet
When the researchers compared the mRNA to a library of DNA sequences taken from the dendrites of neurons by James Eberwine of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, they found that it came from a single gene on chromosome X — the human version of which, when mutated, leads to fragile - X syndrome.
The finding, described in this week's Nature, may help neurobiologists screen for drugs that bind to the human version of this brain receptor.
In 2007 sleep researcher Steven Lockley of Harvard Medical School started gathering the proof after he met a human version of Keeler's mice — a blind 87 - year - old woman who had lost all her rods and cones decades before but whose ipRGCs were still intact.
O'Rahilly knew that the absence of leptin did not prove the children harbored a human version of the mouse fat gene, it merely posed the possibility.
The team sequenced the gene that codes for the NaV1.7 channel in mole rats, and compared it with SCN9A — a key gene in the human version of the channel.
In the human version of the trick, a person sits next to a rubber hand and their own hand is hidden.
The teams at AFB International and Integral Molecular studied the behavior of two different cat bitter taste receptors in cell - based experiments, investigating their responsiveness to bitter compounds, and comparing these to the human versions of these receptors.
Shatz got a hint when she looked up ailments associated with mutations in genes coding for the human version of MHCI.
The human version of the cells, called region - selective pluripotent stem cells, or rsPSCs, can also grow inside a mouse, something other human stem cells can't do, says Jun Wu, a research associate involved in the work, published in May in Nature.
Zhang compared the DNA nucleotide sequence of the human version of ASPM to that of two of our great ape cousins, the chimpanzee and the orangutan, as well to more distantly related animals such as rhesus monkeys, seals, dogs, and hamsters.
Whereas in yeast, a histone - modifying enzyme might have a single regulatory task, the human version of that same enzyme might have other regulatory tasks that involve additional proteins.
In fact, most of what we know about the human version of the disease comes from Indonesia, where avian flu goes by the nickname AI.
Vaccines have treated infectious prions in mice, raising hopes of a cure for the deadly human version of «mad cow disease».
The human version of that switch produces a 12 percent larger cortex than a chimpanzee version does, the Duke team reports February 19 in Current Biology.
In 2002 a student in Christiano's lab was studying the Human Genome Project database and noticed an unnamed region where Christiano had predicted the human version of the lanceolate gene would reside.
«Having identified this important protein molecule in fruit flies, we can test whether the human version of the protein is important for stem cells and their daughters as well,» said Montell.
The results suggest the human version of the FOXP2 gene may enable a quick switch to repetitive learning — an ability that could have helped infants 200,000 years ago better communicate with their parents.
First, the researchers used mice that had been genetically modified to produce excess amounts of the human version of ß amyloid — a common Alzheimer's disease model.
Subsequent analysis of two - thirds of the genome in the 2009 A (H1N1) isolated from more than a dozen pigs shows that it closely matches the human version of the virus.
To try to determine how those changes influenced the gene's function, that group put the human version of the gene in mice.
To figure out which type of learning may have been aided by the changes in the human version of FOXP2, Schreiweis tested humanized mice in mazes.
When the scientists looked for the human version of the newly identified fly marker for sleep deprivation, they found ITGA5 and realized it hadn't been among the human immune genes they screened at the start of the study.
The hope is that doctors will one day be able to give humans some version of the chemical and stop cocaine addiction in its tracks.
When the team added the human version of CTGF to the injury site in fish, it boosted regeneration and the fish swam better by two weeks after the injury.
Scientists then looked at the human version of the gene, and found that the gene was mutated in people suffering from Native American myopathy.
We believe this finding helps explain why the human version of Set2 — which is called SETD2 — is frequently mutated in cancer.»
However, a human version of triciribine could be administered orally, eliminating the need for daily injections.
The tests confirmed that the human version of Ces3 also is unusually active in such patients.
This year molecular biologist Wolfgang Enard of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, explored that possibility with an extraordinary experiment: He inserted the human version of FOXP2 into mice and studied the effects on the creatures» brains and vocalizations.
Embryos» developing brains turned blue sooner and over a broader expanse if they carried the human version of the enhancer, Silver, Wray, and their colleagues report online today in Current Biology.
Humans evolved Coordinator mutations that are good at turning on human versions of genes, but not so great at turning on chimp genes.
Grima used two mouse models of Huntington's disease: one with a human version of the mutant Huntingtin protein and another with an aggressive form of the disease that contains only the first portion of the mouse Huntingtin protein.
A study coming out in Science Translational Medicine and led by University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine researchers has shown that cats with NPC — which mirrors the human version of the disease — show vast improvements when treated with a compound called cyclodextrin.
But mice are of limited use in understanding the human version of this broad «somatosensory» system.
Alternatively, Sodroski offers, because humans make a protein that is 87 percent identical, investigators might also focus on rendering the human version of TRIM5 - alpha more potent.
Then for HARE5, the most active enhancer in an area of the brain called the cortex, they made minigenes containing either the chimp or human version of the enhancer linked to a «reporter» gene that caused the developing mouse embryo to turn blue wherever the enhancer turned the gene on.
To study the disease in mice, the animals need to be engineered to produce a human version of IAPP.
The human version of the FOXP2 (short for fork - head box P2) differs from that of the chimp (the closest living relative of humans) in two places along the genetic code, causing differences in two amino acids in the protein coded by the gene.
Then they slipped a human version of each gene into yeast cells whose own copy of the gene had been turned down, turned off, or removed.
McKay and Tsai searched human cancer cell lines and found a human version of nucleostemin.
«Our conclusions make sense, especially in light of the work of other researchers who have shown that the human version of the FDNC5 gene has a deleterious mutation at the beginning,» Erickson said.
Intrigued, the team inserted a human version of L1 into rat neural stem cells, along with a marker that would make the cells glow green whenever L1 made a jump.
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