Sentences with phrase «in a single gene produced»
A mutation in a single gene produced extra sweat glands in Asian people's skin, perhaps to help them keep cool in the warm and humid climate
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Previous studies in nearly 3000 HIV - infected people had failed to uncover a single person who had inherited copies of the mutated gene that produces the CCR5 protein from both parents.
In the study, the team demonstrated that a biosynthetic gene cluster is capable of producing a whole range of substances, rather than just a single product.
In order to study gene function, the EUMODIC consortium produced mouse lines which each had a single gene removed.
Previous research has shown that a protein produced by a single gene can potentially have different functions in a cell depending on the proteins with which it interacts.
Pea plants with a single nucleotide mutation in the gene produce a sluggish form of the enzyme and consequently grow short.
Researchers created SUSIBA2 rice by introducing a single gene from barley into common rice, resulting in a plant that can better feed its grains, stems and leaves while starving off methane - producing microbes in the soil.
The work supports the idea that a single gene mutation could have produced trichromatic color vision and immediate changes in behavior, says Daniel Osorio, a vision scientist at Sussex University, U.K..
Knocking out a single gene in mice can produce symptoms of obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD), researchers report in tomorrow's issue of Nature.
About Splicing Splicing is a normal mechanism that the cell uses in order to produce many different, but closely related proteins from a single gene by varying the processing of the RNA.
May 07, 2007 Hui Zhu, of the Eng lab, was featured in Today's Plain Dealer Newspaper in an article highlighting her interest in alternative splicing, a molecular process that allows a single gene to produce many different proteins.
The unintended consequence of a single gene change pale in comparison to the negative health consequences of the intensive inbreeding required to produce the extreme physical features of the fad breeds of today.