Sentences with phrase «just by genetic mutations»

This presents a significant advance in understanding that circuits in the brain regulate amyloid - beta protein composition, showing that Alzheimer's is also driven by physiological mechanisms and just by genetic mutations.

Not exact matches

There is just evolution; genetic mutations driven by natural selection.

On the other hand, perhaps by learning to avoid genetic deformities we may intervene just in time to keep from being wiped out by a tide of stress - induced or radiation - related mutations.

«Just as normal cells with the same genome differentiate into many different cell types, a single tumor characterized by specific genetic mutations can contain many different types of cells — stem - like and more differentiated cells — with the difference being rooted in their epigenetic information.

After the gene was duplicated — now I just mention [ed] that duplication takes place all of the time, they are common sort of genetic accidents — but after the genes were duplicated, now there was the opportunity to divide the labor that was once stored by a single gene; now divide that labor into two genes, and what happened is, a series a mutations have taken place that has optimized each role — that the regulatory sensor role of GAL3 and the enzymatic - converting role of GAL1.

The research just published proposes that the normal biology of mRNA regulation in neurons, in which RNA is generally silenced and only activated in the correct place and time, makes it susceptible to both age - related decline and disturbance by genetic mutation.

They also found that just over half the tumors samples analyzed carry genetic mutations that could be targeted by therapies that are already on the market.