Sentences with phrase «like saying the gene»

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Caplan said the best bet for super powers through gene editing would be greater muscle strength, better memory, quicker reaction times, better night vision, and turning up receptors to experience things like alcohol, drugs, and sex more intensely.

«We were looking for a total picture, from your genes to your likes,» Wylie said.

Organic Brown Rice Quinoa Fuselli Pasta (also available as spaghetti pasta)-- My older brother is a chef, so I like to say that he got all of the «cooking genes».

«Rice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRRI.

Speaking over a p.a. mike in an interview with Gene Peterson, the Rockets» radio announcer, Nissalke said, «I don't like to use the word «robbery» but that's what it was....

Although my mom would always tell me that I would be a good mom like her someday, I guess I am left to say that she was right, it may have something to do with genes, but at the end of the day, when the time came, I was ready to be a Mom and that meant providing the best for my child, the first and foremost — to breastfeed my child.

Two things that massively infuriate me that NCB people say a lot: «You can't make a baby you can't fit out (vaginally)» — like the baby doesn't also have the father's genes, and everyone's body is perfect and every part of a person's body communicates perfectly with every other part, does it??

Using new gene editing techniques like CRISPR / Cas9 to treat genetic diseases is fine under certain conditions, but it should not be used to enhance people, a panel of experts says.

A mushroom whose genes have been edited with molecular scissors known as CRISPR / Cas9 doesn't need to be regulated like other genetically modified crops, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said April 13 in a letter to the mushroom's creator.

Surveillance organizations like the U.S. and world antidoping agencies «will look for those signatures and patterns that can be tied, with confidence, to the existence of a foreign gene,» Friedmann says.

«We found that interbreeding with archaic humans — the Neanderthals and Denisovans — has influenced the genetic diversity in present - day genomes at three innate immunity genes belonging to the human Toll - like - receptor family,» says Janet Kelso of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

But they also collected wild relatives of chickpeas in southeastern Turkey that hold «great promise,» von Wettberg says, as a source of new genes for traits like drought - resistance, resistance to pod - boring beetles, and heat tolerance.

«Most look exclusively at words, seen as something like the equivalent of the gene as a unit of analysis in genetics,» says Lyle Campbell, a historical linguist at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

Upon joining the lab, Lee chose a high - risk project — «it sounded like more fun,» she says — aimed at determining whether a key gene in the yeast cell cycle, cdc2, was also present in human cells.

The gene expression patterns, like the structural changes, then returned to pre-eating state within 10 days after eating, «indicating a tight association between differential gene expression and the rapid and cyclic physiological remodeling of the intestine,» the researchers said.

«When most people think about cancer genetics, they think about single key mutations that foster tumor formation — very specific things like the BRCA genes,» said Joe R. Delaney, PhD, a fellow in the Clinical Translation program at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center and lead author of the paper published February 15 in Nature Communications.

«But there hasn't been research conducted on how this gene impacts agronomic traits, like yield,» says Diers.

Toshihiro Sassa and Takashi Murayama, the first and second authors of the paper, respectively, say, «we would like to identify the other genes involved in downstream signaling from this calcium channel to understand how the signal leads to aversion to high pH.» Sensing alkaline environments is only the first step; the worm must then quickly react to the stimulus by moving away.

The genes «work like an on / off switch,» Deisseroth says.

«We would like to get down to a panel of about 200 [genes] that we would prospectively test to see which are the most predictive of outcome,» Jones and Cram said.

«Meiotic drive systems like wtf genes could potentially be used to eradicate pest populations or to facilitate the spread of desirable traits in natural populations,» Zanders says.

Infidelity may sound like a bad thing to humans, but for birds, Botero says, seeking out superior genes could be a useful strategy for surviving climate change.

The next step is pinpointing the cause of these metabolic differences, Sohal says: «What I would like to know is, what are the specific genes that determine the difference in metabolic rate?»

«Just like genes we've inherited from our ancestors,» he says, «we've inherited some of our bacteria from our ancestors as

They found that dramatically reducing the amount of protein expressed by TMEM108, a gene already associated with schizophrenia, results in fewer, smaller spines, which work like communication fingers for neurons, said neuroscientist Dr. Lin Mei.

George Bray, who heads the clinical obesity and metabolism department at Louisiana State University, says environment and behavior — like lack of access to exercise facilities and overeating — so strongly affect gene activity that you can not focus on one while ignoring the other.

The goal, Ivy says, is for the cricket mothers to get good genes, and «if they mate with the same male over and over, it's like buying a lot of lottery tickets with the same number.»

Further, it demonstrates the potential to ultimately prevent conditions like ADHD by understanding how genes and environmental exposures combine,» says lead researcher Joel Nigg, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the OHSU School of Medicine.

Surveillance organizations like the U.S. and world agencies «will look for those signatures and patterns that can be tied, with confidence, to the existence of a foreign gene,» Friedmann says.

«The cells infected by PIV3 expressing the NS2 gene of RSV looked exactly like RSV - infected cells,» Liesman said.

«Using a genetic mouse model of DIPG, we found that the histone mutation turns off p16, which is a gene that acts like a break on dividing cells,» says senior author Oren J. Becher, MD, from Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

«We never have students competing,» he says, «but sometimes they work on something, like cloning a gene, using different methods.

Studies like these two will eventually help tailor diets to people based on their physiology and genes, says obesity researcher Randy Seeley of the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

«If you look at a set of lung cancer patients, like we did in the paper, who develop brain metastases, they all have those two genes in their primary lung cancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hospital.

In future research, said senior author Eric Darling, the Manning Assistant Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology and a member of the Center for Biomedical Engineering assistant professor of medical science, the team would like to target a gene expressed much earlier in the differentiation process to see if they can avoid a priming period.

«Cancer is essentially a disease of mutated or broken genes, so that motivated us to examine whether circular RNAs, like proteins, can be affected by these chromosomal breaks,» said senior author Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, PhD, Director of the Cancer Center at BIDMC and George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

«First, there is no single road map to eusociality — the complex, cooperative social system in which animals behave more like superorganisms than individuals fending for themselves,» said Gene Robinson, a lead on the study who is a professor of entomology and director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois.

«Calcium signaling regulates many important cellular functions, like muscle contraction, neural communication, gene transcription and tissue growth,» said Fenfang Li, a postdoctoral research fellow in Zhong's laboratory and lead author of the study.

For these errors, correction with a gene - editing tool like CRISPR makes more sense, De Luca says.

Many worry that gene editing will lead to designer babies and new hereditary diseases, but Lanner says basic research like his is necessary to avoid those situations.

The researchers say they'd now like to learn more about how these genes influenced humans» ability to survive and what implications they might have for disease.

«Industry giants like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are spending tens of billions of dollars a year on acquiring smaller firms for market entrance, strategic intellectual property and talented employees, but face a real challenge identifying companies with the right products or technology in the vast startup universe,» said Gene Moo Lee, UTA assistant professor of Information Systems and Operations Management.

«Our findings suggest that certain mutations in the BRCA1 gene may put people at increased risk for metabolic diseases like obesity and type 2 diabetes,» said Dr. Spangenburg.

Of course, it makes sense that viruses would choose to turn off genes that the immune system needs to fight the virus, «like interferon - b, which is a highly anti-viral gene expressed in virtually all cell types; or genes that T cells need to recognize virus - infected cells,» Kuss - Duerkop says.

«By looking comprehensively at gene expression within cells, we can now spot numerous important differences in complex tissues like the brain that are invisible today,» said George Church, Ph.D., a Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School.

Rutgers scientists said this study indicates how critical it is to carefully control oxidative stress — which can also lead to neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue syndrome, cancers and gene mutations as well as liver and heart disease — so that cell or tissue damage doesn't occur.

The existence of these genes bolsters the idea that Giardia's intron is processed like those in other eukaryotes, says Sogin.

«Like cancer, autism is a very complex disease,» says Craig Newschaffer, chairman of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Drexel University School of Public Health, «and it's exciting to start asking questions about the interaction between genes and environment.

Scientists say the new strategy enhances the accuracy for surgical - like editing of the human genome, correcting mistakes in the DNA sequence that cause devastating diseases like DMD, a deadly condition caused by defects in the dystrophin gene.

«Plants at the base of the plant evolutionary lineage like moss don't have the same tissues and organs as flowering plants, which evolved more recently, so the genes» roles must be very different,» Lippman says.