Sentences with phrase «inserted genes for these enzymes»

To get around this problem, researchers have inserted genes for these enzymes into biofuel - making bugs.

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The scientists used CRISPR, a gene - editing tool, to alter inserted genes so that the enzymes for which they coded would work most efficiently amid the exotic acidity, osmotic character and chemical composition of their new home.

Scientists from Harvard University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Missouri at Columbia devised another solution: inserting into pig cells a gene that codes for an enzyme that converts omega - 6s to omega - 3s.

Oncologists William Hahn, Robert Weinberg, and colleagues at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, mutated the gene for one part of the enzyme and inserted it into cultured human cells from colon, ovary, and breast tumors.

Guided by specially tailored RNA molecules, the gene for the enzyme can be inserted anywhere on the chromosomes, and it delivers an attached transgene to the site, like a locomotive pulling a freight car.

After just a single dose, rat intestinal cells pumped out bacterial lactase for up to 6 months — showing that the gut cells had inserted the gene into their DNA and were using it to manufacture the enzyme.

In 2009, researchers at Dow AgroSciences in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Sangamo BioSciences in Richmond, California, announced that they had used enzymes called zinc - finger nucleases to insert a gene for herbicide resistance at a specific site in the maize genome (V. K. Shukla et al..

Guessing that worm burgers would never catch on, Jing Kang and colleagues at Harvard Medical School in Boston inserted the worm gene for an enzyme that turns omega - 6 fatty acids into omega - 3's in mice.

By inserting the gene for a new trait alongside genes for a DNA - cutting enzyme and an RNA guide, scientists can prompt a cell to slice out copies of the original, wild - type gene from its chromosomes and use the inserted gene as a template for repair.

They did so by inserting mutations into the bacterial gene that codes for the enzyme, then subsequently selecting mutants that were particularly effective at clipping off the antigens.

To create non-browning apples, Okanagan's researchers inserted short snippets of the native apple genes for these enzymes into their cultivars.