Sentences with phrase «introduce new genes»

Others have written about this before — Christie over at the Pet Connection recommmended opening up the breed registry to introduce new genes into the pool.

The same with dogs, you have to introduce new genes.

B: Well, we were in the midst of experiments aiming to use an animal virus to introduce new genes into human cells and into bacterial cells.

The team believes that whichever way BMP - 7 is used, it will be less risky than other treatments for type 1 diabetes that are currently being investigated, such as those that create pancreatic cells from stem cells, or by introducing new genes into the body.

B could work as a potential vector for gene therapy, a technique that treats diseases by introducing new genes into cells or by replacing or inactivating genes already there.

In particular, they are now looking for expertise in molecular biology, especially in virus - based techniques for introducing new genes into specific cell types in the grid - cell circuit.

Not exact matches

Plants are crossbred to introduce traits / genes from one variety or line into a new genetic background.

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.

While previous vectors have only been able to penetrate the cochlea's inner hair cells, the first Nature Biotechnology study showed that a new synthetic vector, Anc80, safely transferred genes to the hard - to - reach outer hair cells when introduced into the cochlea (see images).

In early August, ABS Global simultaneously introduced a six month old bull named Gene and announced it had formed a new subsidiary, called Infigen, to «commercialize applications of cloning technologies in the cattle breeding, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and xenotransplantation fields.»

Although these crops are not GM varieties — they were created by mutating existing canola genes, not by introducing new ones — their unique DNA should move about just like DNA from GM crops.

«However, genome editing raises a regulatory issue by creating indistinct boundaries in GMO regulations because the advanced genetic engineering can, without introducing new genetic material, make a gene modification which is similar to a naturally occurring mutation.»

Their further analysis also provide evidence on the ancestral status of the Indian group, which holds great potential for introducing new alleles into the cultivated gene pool.

A speedier route would be to introduce a multiplicity of new traits all at once by inserting an entire new chromosome, a structured strand of DNA containing many genes.

Their research team currently is testing the potential effect of the unique differences of the giraffe's FGFRL1 gene by introducing these changes into mice using the new CRISPR gene - editing methods.

The discovery of the Shell gene and its two naturally occurring mutations highlight new molecular strategies to identify seeds or plantlets that will become high - yielding palms before they are introduced into plantations.

In the new work, published April 6 in the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, the researchers snipped a gene called CCR5 to introduce a mutation that prevents HIV from entering cells.

It will enable scientists working on their desktops to create various mutants and introduce genes from other organisms to see which would be most relevant for work on a new antibiotic, for example.

It may take as long to breed a new resistance gene into a new cultivar as to introduce a new fungicide (± 10 years), even though this time can be shortened somewhat today with molecular tools by reducing the back - crossing cycles.

And if an introduced gene had unexpected consequences, researchers might reverse a gene drive by introducing more wild, unmodified individuals to outnumber the new ones.

New genes will be introduced from Oryza species through hybridization and backcrossing in elite parents.

«More recently, we have applied the new gene editing technologies to introduce mutations in the alpha - gliadin regions of bread and durum wheat.

In a landmark study that could lead to new therapies for sickle cell anaemia and other blood disorders, UNSW Sydney - led researchers have used CRISPR - gene editing to introduce beneficial natural mutations into blood cells to boost their production of Read more about Solution to 50 - year - old mystery could lead to gene therapy for common blood disorders - Scimex

Because MRI detects energy - produced shifts in hydrogen atoms, when the «new» gene was introduced into animal cells and then «pelted» with radiofrequency waves from the MRI, it became readily visible.

Two House members introduced a resolution yesterday to name the first launch of NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS) «Cernan 1» after Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon.

In gene therapy, new genetic material (DNA or RNA) is introduced into a patient's cells, most often via a disabled virus called a vector.

We at the University of Sydney have discovered new genetic diversity that helps wheat tolerate high temperature and we are working with industry to introduce these valuable genes into new cultivars.

In other words, we would have to wait for our engineered birds to grow up and breed every time we wanted to introduce new passenger pigeon genes.

William Powell and Charles Maynard at the State University of New York did an ingenious bit of genetic engineering to introduce a fungus - resistant gene from wheat, creating a blight - proof American chestnut that can begin to take up its former crucial role in the eastern forest, as soon as the US government okays it as a benign genetically modified organism.

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The next step proved even more promising: when we introduced these three genes into the injured hearts of living mice, we were again able to convert fibroblasts into new heart cells, and these cells helped improve heart function, integrating with the old ones and beating in synchrony with the rest of the heart.

New techniques include CRISPR, the revolutionary gene - editing tool that lets researchers delete or inactivate genes without introducing genetic material from other organisms.

Making changes to the DNA in human embryos could accidentally introduce an error into the human gene pool, inadvertently creating a new disease that would be passed down for generations, critics say.

«This new genomic platform would allow us to quickly engineer any essential gene in the «simplest» M. mycoides genome and obtain a quick, binary «yes» or «no» answer as to whether the modification introduced could support cellular viability.

Introducing new DNA often is achieved by viral transduction of target cells with a therapeutic transgene, through either a direct or cell - based gene therapy modality.

Scientists at SUNY in New York made the trees blight - proof by introducing a fungus - resistant gene from wheat, and the improved tree is now going through the approval process with government regulators.

But Stephan quickly realized the strategy's limitations: only about two new genes could be introduced into cells, and scientists were limited by the types of molecules that human cells can produce.

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 is always possible that a vector will introduce the gene into a cell other than that for which it is supposed to be targeted (e.g., a spermatocytic cell) or that through a secondary mechanism target cells that have taken up the new gene will through some independent natural process (such as transfection) transfer the gene to a germline cell.

Along with the growing of grains came the domestication of certain animals for use as food, mainly cattle, sheep / goats, pigs and chickens, introducing new foods made from milk into our diets, and subsequently the retention of the lactase gene into adulthood in cattle - raising populations.

Scientists who genetically engineer crops are looking to introduce a desirable trait into that crop, and they do so by inserting a new gene sequence from another species into the target crop's genome.

In indigenous Australians and Papua New Guineans, mingling with the Denisovans (the «other Neanderthal,» an ancestral human living primarily in Asia) introduced genes related to «spermatogenesis, fertilization, cold acclimation, circadian rhythm, development of brain, neural tube, face, and olfactory pit, immunity,» as well as «female pregnancy, development of face, lung, heart, skin, nervous system, and male gonad, visual and smell perception, response to heat, pain, hypoxia, and UV, lipid transport, metabolism, blood coagulation, wound healing, aging.»

«These new ASCD institutes on the Common Core State Standards will introduce educators to strategies and plans for determining Common Core readiness,» said ASCD Executive Director and CEO Dr. Gene R. Carter.

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Researchers from China, Sweden and the United States have discovered a new way to produce high - starch rice with virtually no methane emissions by introducing a single gene of barley to a common strain of rice.

This week, U.S. Representatives Gene Green and Mike Thompson introduced a new bill for e-waste legislation: Responsible Electronics Recycling Act of 2010.