Sentences with phrase «key gene fragments»
During the 1990s, a team led by Jeffery Taubenberger at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., sequenced key gene fragments of the 1918 flu strain, recovered from frozen victims found in the Alaskan permafrost and in archived autopsy material.
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The researchers also found differences in microRNA expression in bipolar cells — tiny fragments of RNA that play key roles in the «reading» of genes.
Similar to a key that fits a lock, the scissors only fit a specific pattern of gene fragments that may serve as a genetic fingerprint for the species searched.