Sentences with phrase «manipulating genes»

Through manipulating the genes in this breeding scheme, he is trying to identify hip dysplasia - causing genes in the normal and dysplastic crossbred offspring.

Manipulating genes and then sorting through many cells to find the desired alterations wasn't possible with these cells because scientists couldn't grow them in the culture dishes where such maneuvers would take place.

We aim to develop a system that links gene discovery to signaling pathways and eventually to set up animal models of disease by manipulating genes of interest through mouse genetics.

Manipulating their genes can lead them to develop other diseases that do not naturally affect them, and as a result research on mice has helped the understanding of both human physiology and the causes of disease.

Alba was actually just one component of the project, which was also supposed to include a public debate about the practice of manipulating genes in animals for research.

Biologists at the University of California San Diego have developed a method of manipulating the genes of an agricultural pest...

La Jolla, CA (Scicasts)-- Biologists at the University of California San Diego have developed a method of manipulating the genes of an agricultural pest that has invaded much of the United States and caused millions of...

The idea of manipulating the genes of humans should not surprise us.

To study these pathways, we use a range of in vitro and in vivo approaches, including manipulating genes in mice and leveraging genome - wide analyses and chemical biology.

We're manipulating genes in the cell nucleus to produce specific proteins, changing the normal recipe for growth and maturation, and transforming adult cells into a new type of cell with the ability to morph into any other cell type,» said Cooke, senior author and chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences.

13 Spider - goat, Spider - goat, does whatever a spider can: By manipulating genes, molecular biologists at the University of Wyoming have gotten goats to produce milk containing the protein that makes up spider silk (video).

The art of manipulating the genes of living organisms so they will produce medically or industrially useful proteins.

Gene therapy has come a long way since, and Nina's case, along with others, mark a turning point: researchers seem to have found a safer way of manipulating our genes.

Ramachandra and his colleagues propose to genetically modify diatoms by manipulating the genes that produce oil so that they enhance its production.

Opportunities abound for manipulating the genes that encode them.

By manipulating the genes of yeasts, molecular biologist Stephen Oliver and his colleagues at the University of Manchester in England have also shown it is possible to turn back the clock of evolution.

The researchers don't yet know how exactly these genes influence social behavior in either bees or people, but manipulating the genes in honey bees may shed light on what they do in humans, says Alan Packer, a geneticist at the Simons Foundation in New York City, which funds autism research, including this bee work.

Biologists at the University of California San Diego have developed a method of manipulating the genes of an agricultural pest that has invaded much of the United States and caused millions of dollars in damage to high - value berry and other fruit crops.

Basic neuroscience research in psychiatry and neurology is also making exciting use of the latest tools for manipulating genes in vivo.

As Robert Haynes, president of the 16th International Congress of Genetics, told his organization, «for at least 3,000 years, the majority of people have considered that human beings were special... What the ability to manipulate genes should indicate to people is the very deep extent to which we are biological machines....

Tsai's group manipulated the gene for the protein p25, which has been implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases, so that it could be easily switched on and off.

«Controlling RNA in living cells: Modular, programmable proteins can be used to track or manipulate gene expression.»

Rather, the focus should be on developing a nucleic acid - based tool to manipulate gene expression through a simple, constant exchange.»

«The challenge has been how to direct certain therapies designed to manipulate genes of interest in specific cells without developing a specific drug carrier for each specific cell type.

«I can now take virtually any organism and manipulate the genome and create model systems where I can track cells, manipulate genes,» says Gitlin.

By manipulating this gene, the researchers managed to engineer algae that both grow rapidly and yield a lot of oil.

When isolated, 99 percent of stem cells die, making it prohibitively difficult to manipulate their genes or expand their numbers for clinical use.

The combined therapy is assuming even greater power as scientists manipulate genes to wind ordinary cells back to an embryonic state.

«It took a decade of work to determine all the steps of lignin biosynthesis and find ways to manipulate genes.

In Texas, a team has manipulated genes in order to put deadly cancers into complete remission.

Understanding these redundancies, and how to bypass them, could be important for biomedical researchers wishing to manipulate gene activity to treat human diseases.

Studies in typical model animals — mice — are rarely illuminating, because the rodents often still behave normally when researchers manipulate genes that should cause these disorders.

So, instead, they genetically manipulated the genes that controlled the CDRs of the heavy chain - only antibodies, chopping them up and randomly mutating them to generate a varied library of binding sites for their biosensor.

More importantly, biotechnologists will for the first time be able to manipulate the genes of cells from farm animals directly before growing them into embryos.

They plan to use these findings to inform research focused on controlling and manipulating gene activity in genetically - engineered bacteria, which have many important medical and industrial applications.

Greenberg, an investigator in the Clinical Research Division, and colleagues conducted a pair of experiments by manipulating gene expression directly in the epithelial compartment of the mouse prostate gland to better understand the role of IGF - 1R.

The conclusions are puzzling, Das said, because it appears that resveratrol should be able to increase the length of life — researchers found the chemical manipulates genes and increases longevity on the cellular level.

However, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, led by Dr. George Cotsarelis, have regenerated follicles in mice by manipulating a gene called Wnt.

They describe current attempts to isolate the totipotent cells found in stem cell cultures, which involve manipulating gene networks or intercellular signaling pathways.

But in recent decades, scientific advances — such as the ability to manipulate genes and turn them on and off in developing embryos — have provided us with a plethora of new information, and insights into how organisms develop and change.

At this point in 2010, it's possible to manipulate the genes of embryos.

This process can not be patented and therefore the Industry and Institutes opt to highly manipulated gene technology in order to get a patented product.

Scientists have already used a drug called rapamycin, as well as manipulated a gene, to extend the life of mice by 10 per cent to 30 per cent.

«It's an elegant way for the cell to be able to manipulate gene expression of many sequences at once,» said Strom.

The work is a big step forward for understanding how DNA functions, but could also help researchers improve their ability to manipulate genes.

In a nutshell: Eleven years after publishing Eat Right for Your Type, naturopathic physician Peter J. DAdamo puts out a new book that calls for using diet and exercise to manipulate genes that influence weight.

The reason for this response, Gordon says, was twofold: Firmicutes bacteria transplanted from the fat mice produced more of the enzymes that helped the animals extract more energy from their food, and the bacteria also manipulated the genes of the normal mice in ways that triggered the storage of fat rather than its breakdown for energy.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

How can evolution be reasonable when genes lose information when it mutates, even when they are deliberately manipulated in labs, under controlled environments?