Sentences with phrase «molecular genetic studies of»
A short account of the most important methodological problems to be overcome in molecular genetic studies of psychological and psychiatric phenotypes is also given.
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Nathans pioneered the use of these type II enzymes for molecular genetic studies of medical interest.
Results of this first molecular genetic study of infant attachment [86, 96] seem to have transformed the attachment field by increasing interest in studying genetic and gene - environment interaction effects.
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A degree of kinship between human beings and the rest of physical creation has always been clear to an extent, but the depth and detail of our interrelationship with the rest of life on the planet is being confirmed over and over again in breathtaking detail by new scientific advances such as genetic studies and molecular biology.
Working alongside MMU's Dr Alun Williams, Shane is studying the molecular genetic characteristics of elite rugby athletes.
Molecular biologist Christina Warinner studies calculus, or fossilized dental plaque, which contains a trove of genetic clues to past human diet and disease.
We need more genetic studies and a better molecular understanding of its generation, which could open unforeseen avenues to drug development.»
Molecular biology is the study of molecular underpinnings of the process of replication, transcription and translation of the genetic Molecular biology is the study of molecular underpinnings of the process of replication, transcription and translation of the genetic molecular underpinnings of the process of replication, transcription and translation of the genetic material.
Editor's Note (10/2/17): Seventeen years before the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three U.S. scientists for their research on biological clocks, one of them, Michael W. Young, set out an account in Scientific American describing the genetic studies that identified the «molecular timepieces» that are ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom.
The achievement opened the door to further studies of the molecular basis of heredity and new strategies to treat cancer and genetic diseases.
«It could allow some of the molecular and genetic studies done on modern animals to be potentially used on dinosaur samples.»
But a new genetic study of a 1000 - year - old skeleton from the Bahamas shows that at least one modern Caribbean population is related to the region's precontact indigenous people, offering direct molecular evidence against the idea of Taino «extinction.»
Currently only a handful of known genetic mutations have been found to account for about 10 percent of glaucoma, says Liu, corresponding author of the study in the journal Human Molecular Genetics.
A study published in Nature Communications, led by the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) and Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has found five genetic risk loci that point to the importance of skin and mucous membrane barriers and the immune system in the development of food allergies.
«Our study connects the dots between Werner syndrome and heterochromatin disorganization, outlining a molecular mechanism by which a genetic mutation leads to a general disruption of cellular processes by disrupting epigenetic regulation,» says Izpisua Belmonte.
This can result in a serious genetic disease that can cause anemia, neuro - cognitive impairment, and even early death,» says the study's lead - author, Dr. Jean - Louis Guéant, director of the Inserm unit of Nutrition - Genetics - Environmental Risks at University of Lorraine and head of the Department of Molecular Medicine and Personalized Therapeutics — National Center of Inborn Errors of Metabolism at the University Regional Hospital of Nancy.
The team of researchers was the first in the world to use modern genetic, molecular and biochemical methods to study tooth enamel defects in detail.
The HumGen site appears to be a good source of information for anyone interested in genetic policy or ethics — which should be anyone studying molecular biology today.
«This paper takes advantage of modern molecular biology and genetic approaches to test some of those hypotheses,» said University of Nebraska - Lincoln biologist Kristi L. Montooth, a fruit fly expert who co-authored the new study.
A chromosome - specific BAC library was used to assemble 82 % of the chromosome into 1036 contigs that were anchored with 1443 molecular markers, providing a major resource for genetic and genomic studies.
Brian Kemp, a molecular anthropologist at Washington State University who led the study, found that out of 3,500 Native Americans examined from a genetic database, 1.5 percent showed the same genetic pattern in their mitochondrial DNA as that found in the ancient tooth.
«Better assessment of teens» ability to concentrate could facilitate the identification of those at risk of anxiety and could also inform molecular genetic studies, which would be the logical next stage for research.»
To try to answer that, we looked for molecular differences that could reveal aspects of motor neuron diversity — and the study started with a molecular screen to try and find genetic differences between different subtypes of motor neurons.
Scholars also have demonstrated the biodiversity of modern - day African village chickens through molecular genetic studies.
In search of better ways to teach the subject, researchers at Michigan State University developed complete evolutionary case studies spanning the gamut from the molecular changes underlying an evolving characteristic to their genetic consequences and effects in populations.
«This provides evidence of a molecular genetic mechanism that is at work, coordinating adaptation of seed dormancy and flowering traits in the plants to accommodate environmental conditions,» said study co-author Heqiang «Alfred» Huo, a postdoctoral researcher in the Bradford lab.
The new study — published October 18, 2016 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry — combined genetic analysis of more than 9,000 human psychiatric patients with brain imaging, electrophysiology, and pharmacological experiments in mutant mice to suggest that mutations in the gene DIXDC1 may act as a general risk factor for psychiatric disease by interfering with the way the brain regulates connections between neurons.
The studies were inspired, Stivers says, by the fact that when an HIV virus infects a new CD4 + T cell, it injects its genetic information into the cell as two strands of RNA, the molecular cousin of DNA.
His current research uses a variety of molecular, biochemical, and genetic approaches to study the basic biology of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs).
The study results also attach numbers to molecular evidence documenting the importance of heritability traceable to common genetic variation in causing these five major mental illnesses.
In a study spanning molecular genetics, stem cells and the sciences of both brain and behavior, researchers at University of California San Diego, with colleagues at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies and elsewhere, have created a neurodevelopmental model of a rare genetic disorder that may provide new insights into the underlying neurobiology of the human social brain.
A study developed by researchers of the Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP), a joint center of the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), in collaboration with the Unit for Plant Genomics Research of Evry, France (URGV, in French) has discovered a new way of improving the longevity of plant seeds using genetic engineering.
Postdoc Janne Thirstrup from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, has studied the genetic correlations between behaviour and other financially important traits in mink.
A large new study from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium provides the first molecular genetic evidence that genetic influences play a role in the risk of getting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after trauma.
«We've created a genetic combination that no one has ever made before,» said plant scientist Gregg Howe, MSU Foundation professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, who led the study.
In a series of studies this year, molecular geneticists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine used a harmless virus to ferry new genes through the bloodstream, across blood vessel walls, and into almost every muscle cell in the bodies of hamsters bred to have human genetic diseases.
A previous study by Segev at the laboratory for research of molecular and cellular mechanisms, directed by Prof. Kobi Rosenblum in the Sagol Department of Neurobiology at the University of Haifa, found a connection between a genetic condition known to be a risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer's and premature aging as manifested in ongoing metabolic stress.
C.elegans has been used for decades as a model animal to study the genetic and molecular underpinnings of neurological disorders through a number of techniques including bio imaging, electrophysiology and behavior.
Raised for dozens of generations in the lab of senior author Huda Akil, Ph.D., at the U-M Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute under carefully controlled conditions, the two breeds act as a way to study the effects of genetic and inherited traits on addiction - related behaviors.
Sit down for a chat with British - born molecular biologist Brian Clark (pictured left), and it doesn't take long before the names start dropping: Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix; Sydney Brenner, pioneer in studying roundworm cell differentiation; Marshall Nirenberg, genetic code - breaker.
In a study published in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, neuroscientists from around the globe used genetic, electrophysiological, biochemical, and molecular techniques to uncover the function of neuregulin 3.
Katharina F. Heil loved her work studying the genetic and molecular underpinnings of Parkinson's disease.
A few years ago, Alan Cooper, a molecular evolutionist at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, came across a golden opportunity to study the genetic history of these bears.
«Such a mosaic anatomical evolution may well be related to the somewhat similar molecular mosaic evolution between the three species revealed by previous genetic studies: each of the chimpanzees species share about 3 percent of genetic traits with humans that are not present in the other chimpanzee species.»
«Many mechanisms of resistance to Bt proteins have been proposed and studied in the lab, but this is the first analysis of the molecular genetic basis of severe pest resistance to a Bt crop in the field,» said Bruce Tabashnik, one of the paper's authors and the head of the Department of Entomology in the UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Based on their research from the Chorora, Kadabba and Ardi finds, the team says the common ancestor of chimps and humans lived earlier than had been evidenced by genetic and molecular studies, which placed the split about 5 million years ago.
On 11 March, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) issued a press release proudly announcing that a research team there had deciphered much of the genetic sequence of one of the most widely used cell lines in cancer studies and had made the information available publicly.
The EMBL team hadn't — and the EMBL spokesperson acknowledges that no one thought to do so: «We did not consider this an issue exactly because of the notoriety of the cells, and the existence of so much molecular biological and genetic data on these long before our study.»
A new study in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics describes a multi-method strategy to overcome existing technological limitations by more accurately identifying PMS2 gene mutations, which will improve diagnosis and support appropriate genetic counseling and medical management.
This can result in a serious genetic disease that can cause anemia, neuro - cognitive impairment, and even early death,» says the study's lead - author, Dr. Jean - Louis Guéant, director of the Inserm unit of Nutrition - Genetics - Environmental Risks at University of Lorraine and head of the Department of Molecular Medicine and Personalized Therapeutics - National Center of Inborn Errors of Metabolism at the University Regional Hospital of Nancy.