Sentences with phrase «low gene content»

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But the vitamin A content was still low, so they turned to a gene found in corn, which increased the amount of vitamin A 23 times.

Lower sequence coverage (survey sequencing) of related species can yield a wealth of information about gene content and putative regulatory elements.

Dmitry: as the paper itself notes, the most likely mechanism for the ability of hydroxypropyl - β - cyclodextrin to lower Aβ burden in the mouse model is AD finding is by normalizing membrane cholesterol content and reducing the appearance of abnormal cathepsin D - positive lysosomes, leading to reduced beta - secretase cleavage of APP and an upregulation of genes involved in cholesterol trafficking and Aβ clearance.

Schosserer will be spending two months in the laboratory of Aric Rogers, Ph.D., at the MDI Biological Laboratory's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine studying the role that molecular regulators of gene expression play in longevity — and in particular how these regulators are affected by lower amounts of food or food with lower energy content.