Sentences with phrase «made by these genes»

The Fem RNA breaks down a corresponding molecule made by a gene known as Masculinizer, which is found on the Z chromosome.

Another is involved in X chromosome inactivation, which ensures that females don't get a double dose of proteins made by genes housed on their pair of X chromosomes.

If so, the proteins made by these genes could be good targets for new drugs.

A New Twist in Breast Cancer Working with mice, scientists have shown that a protein made by a gene called TWIST may be the proverbial red flag that can accurately distinguish cells that drive aggressive, metastatic breast cancer from other breast cancer cells.

Recognizing the potential implications of a general method of altering the traits of entire populations, Kevin and colleagues have detailed ways to control, block, or even reverse changes made by gene drives and emphasized the importance of careful evaluation and regulatory reform.

Gene constructs were made by gene synthesis (GeneartAG) using sequences that were codon - optimized for expression in human cells.

Not exact matches

Synthego was founded by two former SpaceX engineers who are working to make gene editing faster and easier to use.

By manipulating DNA and splicing in genes from other animals, adding a la carte features that would make an ordinary T - Rex even more crowd - pleasing.

The AquAdvantage salmon made by AquaBounty Technologies, which some have dubbed a «Frankenfish,» contains a gene that allows it to grow faster than wild or conventional farm - raised Atlantic salmon.

Leber congenital amaurosis is caused by a gene defect doesn't lead the retina to make a key protein.

And a third, different kind of gene therapy from Spark Therapeutics — to treat a rare inherited form of blindness — is likely to be approved by the end of 2017, too, making this year a landmark for treatments that manipulate the body's own biological mechanisms in novel new ways to fight deadly diseases.

And contrary to your cited reference's claim of a loss of specificity, to the contrary, these duplicate genes were then refined by further mutation to make them better.

No «tall gene» will ever be found, but that does not make height a choice or not heavily influenced by genes.

They include going after the damage to cells done by free radicals, making use of hormone therapy, or caloric restrictions, or vitamin supplements, or, most dramatically, healthy gene selection through pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and even repairing the entire human genome.

If you were a scientist hoping to isolate the fan gene, Alabama would make the perfect laboratory... A recent poll by the Mobile Register found that 90 percent of the state's citizens describe themselves as college football fans.

He was also not Jewish by racial stock, because of the special genes that God made.

The ever - optimistic Ohio farmer Gene Logsdon, for instance, makes a persuasive case for returning to grass - feeding steers, hogs, chicken, dairy cows and sheep instead of the concentrated feedlot farming favored by industrial agribusiness.

The true testing ground for the implicate - order strategy, it seems to me, may indeed be biology rather than physics, where abstract methods are so powerful as to perhaps make it dispensable: just as the old style building - block materialist was refuted not by philosophical polemic, but by the one authority in which he trusted, i.e., by physics itself, so the nothing - but reductionist in contemporary biology will modify his views should it be possible some day to provide him with a mathematical language that fills the currently existing gap between our formal knowledge of gene structure and combinations, and our intuitive apprehension of growth and shape.

The burly bull's outsized legacy was made possible in part by careful record - keeping and, later, applied genetics, in which farmers select cattle whose genes — like Chief's — are linked with high milk production and other valuable attributes.

Coach Gene Stallings has versatile Dave Elmendorf, who played five positions in 1968 and who is being tempted by offers to play pro baseball, and Larry Stegent, who has made some glittering runs during the last two years.

Whereas Gene mauled his way to the middleweight title, Jay has won 13 professional fights by boxing and sharp punching — a sufficient difference to make one wonder about heredity and environment.

But Bowyer also knew that if he was going to revitalize his career, then the team co-owned by Tony Stewart and Gene Haas presented him with the best opportunity to snap a winless stretch that extended to Oct. 2012 and had made him largely irrelevant in recent seasons.

Researchers believe that the pheromones given off by the top of a baby's head disable our aggressive impulses, making it more likely that babies will survive to pass on their genes.

Taylor and colleagues made this discovery by exposing fetal mice to BPA during pregnancy and examining gene expression and DNA in the uteruses of female fetuses.

By the 4 - 8 cell stage of life, human embryos have to «turn on» their own genes and start making their own proteins.

Locally, detention policies are made by Onondaga County Sheriff Gene Conway, who has said he would comply with detainer requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, though he's never received one.

Genetically modified crops are plants in which genes are altered in the laboratory to make them perform in a very specific way, such as not being harmed by certain herbicides.

No babies have been born with changes made by CRISPR / Cas9 or any other gene - editing technology.

Gene drives enable a gene to spread rapidly through a population; there are plans to use them to combat mosquito - borne diseases by making the flies sterile or unsuitable as hosts for various viruses and parasiGene drives enable a gene to spread rapidly through a population; there are plans to use them to combat mosquito - borne diseases by making the flies sterile or unsuitable as hosts for various viruses and parasigene to spread rapidly through a population; there are plans to use them to combat mosquito - borne diseases by making the flies sterile or unsuitable as hosts for various viruses and parasites.

To do this, the neurons need to make new proteins — a process that is thought to be controlled by hundreds of genes.

These experiments were complemented by genetic manipulations in which some mice were engineered to lack a gene known as Tap1, which is crucial for the MHC I complex to make its way to the cell surface.

Interestingly, this study demonstrated that Igfr2, the first imprinted gene discovered by Denise Barlow in 1991, is surrounding by a large cluster of imprinted genes that extend over 10 % of the chromosome, making it the largest co-regulated domain in the genome outside of the X chromosome.

But in a species where groups include multiple males, the best way to ensure passing on more genes is to make more sperm — by building bigger testes.

McCallion's strategy to make sense of all this data looks at the active genes in cells affected by a disease, groups of genes that interact with one another, their vulnerability to mutation and information from past scientific studies to filter more than a thousand gene candidates for disease risk down to just a handful within any one implicated region.

Those made with iPS cells, by contrast, tend to accumulate mutations and suffer abnormal patterns of gene activation.

Akey says determining the age of our mutations is made possible only by the stupendous increase in gene sequencing speed and power.

They made these clones by a process called automatic parthenogenesis: The egg is formed normally (with half the species» usual number of chromosomes), then fertilized by the «polar body,» a cell that is created during oogenesis and contains the same gene copies as the egg, resulting in the shark having half the genetic variation of its mother.

A less - frequent BRCA1 mutation, called 5382insC, was identified next, followed by 6174delT on a second gene, BRCA2, making for a trio of characteristically Jewish breast - cancer mutations.

Sxl is a «switch gene», meaning that Drosophila sex is determined by whether or not Sxl protein is made.

Gene expression is the process where information stored as DNA is converted (transcribed) by enzymes into related molecules called RNAs, and then into proteins that make up the body's structures and signals.

And a dog genome sequence has made the animals an even more useful model by quickening the search for disease - causing genes.

Some of these genes are involved in making the proteins encoded by the viral DNA and may make it easier for Mimivirus to co-opt host cell replication systems.

Yang said the study not only indicated which genes are affected by traumatic brain injury and linked to serious disease, but also might point to the genes that govern metabolism, cell communication and inflammation — which might make them the best targets for new treatments for brain disorders.

They also attached an inducible promoter, which enabled them to turn on the gene to make more GLP1, as needed, by exposing it to the antibiotic doxycycline.

The direct methylation of the DNA changes the gene expression permanently if it takes place in the control regions of genes (so - called CpG islands), that have been made accessible by the modification of the histones.

By using optogenetics — gene therapy that makes nerves sensitive to light — they hope to make much more sophisticated implants.

Cells make proteins from RNA they copy from genes, but some RNAs play roles by themselves.

The methyl groups that switch genes on and off are not made by the body, instead we get them by eating foods rich in nutrients such as choline and folate, which are found in raw liver and cruciferous vegetables like cabbage and broccoli.

The researchers proved that this was caused by chemical «epigenetic» changes to parts of the gene that codes for Hnf4a, making it less active than it should be.

Several mutations were found in genes coding the machinery that makes mitochondrial proteins, and so would probably hinder mitochondria's ability to make the chemical fuel called ATP, which is used by normal cells.