Sentences with phrase «in pig genome»

Recently, the lab disabled 62 genes (in a pig genome) all in one go — the largest number of simultaneous gene edits ever accomplished.

Not exact matches

As for «playing God» — the argument that it is unethical to change a pig in the way that genome - editing does — she retorts that «the highest moral standard is human life.

Working out how to do it in the pigs would point the way toward, say, adding copies of the cancer - fighting gene p53 into a person's genome.

Many people feared that retroviruses lurking in animal genomes could harm transplant recipients, but this year a team eliminated, in one fell swoop, 62 copies of a retrovirus's DNA littering the pig genome.

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.

Eager to get the record straight, Laurent Frantz, now a bioinformaticist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, carried out sophisticated computer analyses of 103 whole genomes sequenced from wild boars and domesticated pig breeds from all over Europe and Asia.

Farmers may have domesticated pigs 9000 years ago, but genome studies now show that in those early centuries, trysts with wild animals were quite common, particularly in Europe.

His adviser at the time, animal genomicist Martien Groenen of Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands, had sequenced these genomes and had gathered additional, albeit less complete, genetic data from 600 other wild and domesticated pigs as part of another study.

There are even a few islands — those that contain genes involved in behavior and size, key traits for domesticated animals — that are in the genomes of both European and Asian pigs, Larson reports.

This is one of the first population genomics analyses to use high - coverage whole - genome sequencing in pigs, each individual has been sequenced more than 20-fold depth with the genome coverage of 95 %.

Substantially, a nearly complete catalogue of the genetic variants has been compiled, which allowed the scientist to identify a genome - wide set of loci for local adaptation in Chinese pigs.

We could say that the Iberian pig is very similar to the pigs which existed in the sixteenth century and no great changes have been registered in this genome.

A genome - wide scan for signatures of directional selection in domesticated pigs.

Adaptation and possible ancient interspecies introgression in pigs identified by whole - genome sequencing Ai, H., X. Fang, B. Yang, Z. Huang, H. Chen et al. 2015.

Now, three decades after those weapons were destroyed, scientists have sequenced the genome of the organism — a pathogen typically found in pigs called Brucella suis.

The major project to chart the pig genome shows that the wild boar originated in Southeast Asia about 4 million years ago.

Recently, prospects for xenotransplantation brightened when Harvard geneticist George Church demonstrated the removal of dozens of endogenous retroviruses from the pig genome, in a tour de force of the CRISPR / Cas9 gene editing technique.

«The pig is one of our most important domesticated animals, and it was high time for its genome to be mapped», says Professor Leif Andersson, who participated in the project.

Uppsala researchers Patric Jern, Alexander Hayward, Göran Sperber, and Jonas Blomberg used the computer program RetroTector and detailed sequence comparisons in so - called phylogenetic studies to map the retrovirus part of the pig genome.

The efficient genome editing shown here demonstrates that these pigs can serve as a powerful tool for dissecting in vivo gene functions and biological processes in a temporal manner and for streamlining the production of genome - edited pigs for disease modeling.

To further facilitate genome editing in pigs, we report here establishment of a pig line with Cre - inducible Cas9 expression that allows a variety of ex vivo genome editing in fibroblast cells including single - and multigene modifications, chromosome rearrangements, and efficient in vivo genetic modifications.