Sentences with phrase «in gene sequencing technology»

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Here's why: In the late 90s, technology emerged enabling researchers to rapidly sequence RNA and DNA — giving them the ability to isolate and record the activity of single genes.

That's attached to the progress of sequencing technology, the ability to edit cells, and other gene editing approaches have been transformative in the immunotherapy world in recent years.

Brains of individuals who died with Huntington's, Parkinson's or no neurological condition were analyzed using sequencing technology that provides a data readout of the activity of all genes in the genome.

In 1991, technology was developed that permitted «shot gun» sequencing, the identification of short DNA sequences scattered virtually at random throughout the 100,000 or so genes of the human genome.

Lu's team will extract immune cells called T cells from the blood of the enrolled patients, and then use CRISPR — Cas9 technology — which pairs a molecular guide able to identify specific genetic sequences on a chromosome with an enzyme that can snip the chromosome at that spot — to knock out a gene in the cells.

But the benefits of this technology for discerning the circuits of the mind go much deeper, because the virus that carries the photoreceptor genes can also carry promoter sequences that express their payload only in neurons with the appropriate molecular address.

Using a novel combination of technologies, including trio exome sequencing of patient / parental DNA and genetic studies in the tiny larvae of zebrafish, the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium found that mutations in the gene CHD2 are responsible for a subset of epilepsy patients with symptoms similar to Dravet syndrome — a severe form of childhood epilepsy that is in many patients resistant to currently available anti-epileptic drugs.

«Single - nucleus RNA sequencing, droplet by droplet: DroNc - Seq, technology that merges single - nucleus RNA sequencing with microfluidics, brings new scale to gene expression studies in complex tissues.»

With the state - of - the - art DNA sequencing technology used in this study, they will be able to pinpoint the exact mistake in each patient's SS - related genes.

A $ 12 million gift from Gates to the university had lured Leroy Hood, a coinventor of gene - sequencing technology, to the Seattle campus in 1992.

As scientists began to sequence human genes in the 1990s, sorting out the cellular locations of each gene's proteins became a priority, says Mathias Uhlén, a microbiologist at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and director of the Protein Atlas effort.

Using next - generation RNA sequencing and other advanced technologies, the researchers identified a previously unknown gene involved in betalain synthesis and revealed which biochemical reactions plants use to convert the amino acid tyrosine into betalains.

The study adds to evidence that gene editing may need to be adapted to each patient's genome, to ensure there aren't variants in DNA sequence in or near the gene being targeted that would throw off the technology.

With the completion of the first phase of the Human Genome Project in 2000, and the advent of sequencing technologies that can detect gene variations such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), for the first time scientists have the tools in hand to find the key immune genes and genetic networks that play roles in vaccine response.

She said: «Identifying a fault in Complex I, one of the building blocks of mitochondria which is responsible for causing disease combined with our custom gene capture and the latest sequencing technology means we can screen many more genes to diagnose this debilitating disease.

«This new technology will allow us to sequence all the genes in the genome and obtain a genetic portrait of the children more quickly to know which disease they suffer from and to provide treatment, if available, or when it becomes available.»

More recently, improved gene - sequencing technology and larger population studies have made it possible to detect gene variants that appear in only 1 percent of the human population.

Once researchers learn which genes may be markers for cancer, Rubin says, this type of sequencing technology is so powerful that it might be able to detect them in a blood or urine test, replacing an invasive prostate exam or biopsy.

Meanwhile, gene - sequencing technology has progressed by leaps and bounds, becoming far cheaper in the process.

The SMRT technology used in the new study makes it possible to sequence and read DNA segments longer than 5,000 bases, far longer than standard gene sequencing technology.

If you took high school biology in the 1990s, you probably learned about the molecular basis for human genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis (1989), Huntingtons (1993), Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (1987), and a rapidly growing list of single - gene disorders, and the correspondingly rapid growth in clinical diagnostic technology based on DNA sequence information, enabling certain diagnosis, sometimes before the advent of overt symptoms.

The researchers also hope to use gene sequencing technology to compare the brains of those who have died of Alzheimer's with those of people who died without neurological diseases, in the hope of finding DNA sequences of particular microbes in the diseased brains.

In the lead profile, Jansson represented those researchers investigating such diseases by using omics technologies - uncovering the DNA sequences, expressed genes, and metabolite signatures used to reveal links to microbial functions in the guIn the lead profile, Jansson represented those researchers investigating such diseases by using omics technologies - uncovering the DNA sequences, expressed genes, and metabolite signatures used to reveal links to microbial functions in the guin the gut.

Despite recent successes in identifying causative mutations for human heritable diseases through the use of sequencing technologies, an associated gene has not been identified for approximately half of the reported diseases.

«You could get information about specific genes, but sequencing technologies were very slow,» said Jansson, now a division director of biological sciences at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Wash..

A relatively new technology called exome sequencing has identified a few families with novel mutations in their HD genes.

Broadly speaking, we are interested in understanding how genes affect behaviour, but despite rapid advances in technology for sequencing and engineering genomes, it is still a challenge to associate particular genes with heritable behavioural differences because behaviour is time consuming to measure and difficult to quantify.

More recently, in a joint initiative with the BBMRI - LPC project (Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure — Large Prospective Cohorts) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the CNAG - CRG launched a call to promote the use of sequencing technologies for the identification of novel causative variants and genes and to molecularly diagnose rare disease patients.

Developed in collaboration with the Laboratory Medicine, Information Technology and Health Science Research departments of Mayo Clinic Geneticist Assistant NGS Interpretative Workbench, is a web - based tool for the control, visualization, interpretation and historical knowledge base of next generation sequencing data targeted at specific genes for the purpose of identifying potentially pathogenic variants associated with specific conditions such as hereditary colon cancer.

The advent of RNA - seq technology, in conjunction with full genome sequencing, provides a method for the unbiased characterization of genes regulated by infection in almost any species that can be manipulated in the laboratory.

Taking advantage of research progress and advanced gene sequencing technology, Brown University will join a consortium of European researchers for a three - year, $ 2.9 - million study of how fertilization has evolved in flowering plants.

Research Focus: I dedicate my time and effort to develop high - throughput sequencing technologies such as single cell transcriptomic, ChIP - Seq, ChIA - PET, and many more... The scientific rational is to understand better and with a different angle, the mechanisms of epigenetic regulation of gene expression in (rare) immune cells, pathologically relevant in many diseases such as asthma, SLE, tuberculosis...

Thanks to innovations in sequencing technology that have produced a cornucopia of genomes, plus some tweaks to the computational methods by different labs, the combined list of identified HARs now includes nearly 3,000 genome segments.4 But the original trend still holds; nearly all HARs are outside genes, some quite far away from any gene in the genome.

Germline Genome Editing Advances in gene - editing technologies now allow researchers worldwide to modify DNA sequences inside living cells quickly, cheaply, precisely, and efficiently.

His laboratory has also discovered and characterized a significant number of novel genes contributing to autism and human neurodevelopmental disorders, and has recently applied whole - genome sequencing technologies and large - scale genomics datasets to prenatal detection and interpretation of structural variation in the genome.

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Genome editing technology enables precise modification of individual protein coding genes, as well as noncoding regulatory sequences, enabling the elucidation of functional effects in human disease relevant cellular systems.

To that end, Berkeley Lab researchers will use CRISPR / Cas9 gene - editing technology, which Berkeley Lab scientist Jennifer Doudna helped pioneer, to systematically test the function of representative sequences in mice.

Emphasizing that the technology to sequence genes was born in 2006, but that it has only been used in the clinic setting for a few years, Dr. Smith said a revolution not seen since the development of the transistor, is rapidly occurring not only in med schools, but pharmacy schools.

DNA sequencing technology using off - the - shelf equipment devised by George M. Church at Harvard Medical School and collaborators at Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis may help realize the federal goal of reducing that price to $ 1,000 by 2015, which experts say would make it practical to decode an individual's genes for routine medical purposes.