Sentences with phrase «hundreds of new genes»

Researchers from King's College London and Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam were able to uncover hundreds of new genes that play a role in people's hair color.

Unlike the 13 genes that were discovered to play a role in hair color, these hundreds of new genes are more accurate at detecting hair color than the previously discovered genes.

In doing so, Wisecaver and her team were able to identify hundreds of new genes and discovered that plants and fungi organized these genes very differently on their respective genomes.

Not exact matches

To do this, the neurons need to make new proteins — a process that is thought to be controlled by hundreds of genes.

As CRISPR - Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published in Nature Methods has found that the gene - editing technology can introduce hundreds of unintended mutations into the genome.

(Reuters)- The Ice Bucket Challenge that went viral two years ago, raising hundreds of millions of dollars, has helped identify a new gene behind the neurodegenerative disease ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, researchers say.

New research suggests even healthy - looking clones may have hundreds of malfunctioning genes.

For the manatee, walrus, dolphin, and killer whale, the return to the sea involved many evolutionary trade - offs amongst hundreds of genes: a general loss of the number of sensory genes for smell and taste, new functions for genes forming skin and connective tissue, and genes involved in muscle structure and metabolism.

This work, published in the journal Molecular Cell, reveals a new role for each nucleus» several hundred pores, which constitute as many microscopic factories of gene transcription.

If the New York ruling is upheld on appeal, experts say, hundreds or even thousands of human gene patents could be put in limbo.

Noting the potential of gene therapy to be a one - time treatment for rare and serious diseases that otherwise cost hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in chronic care over a lifetime, Stuart Orkin, MD, and co-author Philip Reilly, MD, JD, of Third Rock Ventures, seek to «catalyze the discussion» by suggesting several new models for valuing, pricing and developing gene therapy.

It also contains some of the most variable human genes: hundreds of versions — or alleles — exist of each gene in the population, allowing our bodies to react to a huge number of disease - causing agents and adapt to new ones.

The three labs together identified several hundred human genes that influenza hijacks for its own benefit, but in most cases the groups each hit on different ones: Only about 30 genes overlap, an outcome that's «very surprising,» says Peter Palese, a virologist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, who co-authored the paper with Chanda.

In challenging conditions, it can instantly churn out hundreds of brand - new and potentially lifesaving proteins from its DNA, all without changing the genes in any way.

Scientists have already used the resource to identify hundreds of thousands of gene - phenotypes associations, many of which are completely new.

We have previously identified hundreds of new cell division genes by RNAi - based screening of the entire human genome and we are now studying — in live cells and with high - throughput — protein function, interactions and networks.

Mating between domesticated dogs and wild wolves over hundreds of years has left a genetic mark on the wolf gene pool, new research has shown.

Nineteen new pieces of DNA — left by viruses that first infected our ancestors hundreds of thousands of years ago — have just been found, lurking between our own genes.

As CRISPR - Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published in Nature Methods has found that the gene - editing technology can introduce hundreds of unintended mutations into the... Read more

It stimulates the expression of hundreds of protective genes, and creates Brain - Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF), which is necessary to grow new neurons and help them survive.

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The New Findings - The researchers collected DNA samples as well as urine samples from hundreds of dogs to identify the gene responsible for high levels of uric acid.

Rare individuals are born with a mutation that allows them to survive and reproduce better than all the others so that this new gene eventually (over hundreds of thousands of years) becomes the new norm.