Sentences with phrase «mutant version of the gene»

The parent generation had a mutant version of a gene dubbed hothead, which causes the plants to have fused flowers.

Even when each parent carried two mutant versions of the gene, 10 percent of the next generation had normal flowers.

The effects of the mutant version of the gene (allele) override the effects of the healthy version of the gene.

Not exact matches

But when Cherr and his colleagues finally got around recently to checking out the protein in humans, they got a big surprise: About a quarter of men don't make it properly because they have a mutant version of the relevant gene.

It could be a more complicated version of the familiar case of sickle cell anemia: having two mutant copies of a certain gene causes the disease, whereas having only one mutant copy provides protection against malaria.

The researchers also observed that AT2101 was effective in treating Parkinson's in mice even though they did not carry a mutant version of the Gaucher gene, suggesting that the compound may have a clinical effect in the broader Parkinson's population.

One study, known as DIAN TU, will administer experimental drugs to more than 160 people in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia who have one of three mutant genes that cause an early - onset version of the disease.

Strosberg and his colleagues found that cells with the mutant gene can make a version of leptin but can not properly secrete it into the bloodstream.

In one experiment, Dangl's team found that Arabidopsis plants with mutant versions of the PHR1 gene not only had impaired phosphate stress responses, but also developed different communities of microbes in and around their roots when grown in a local native North Carolina soil.

But swapping the fly version of the gene into these mutant mice corrects most of those abnormalities.

To further explore nuclear transport's role in Huntington's disease, Grima took lab - grown mouse neurons and used chemical switches to a) turn on both an additional healthy copy of the RanGAP1 gene and a mutant version of Huntingtin; b) just turn on the mutant Huntingtin; or c) just turn on a healthy version of Huntingtin.

Without a working version of the gene encoding SWEET4c, such as in the mutant lines provided by the UniformMu resource (Don McCarty and Karen Koch at the University of Florida), sugars were not delivered to the seeds and the backpack was empty (in science jargon: empty pericarp).

Cook and his colleagues were even able to restore some normal walking ability to stum - mutant flies by adding the mouse version of the stum gene.

To repair the problem, the research team «broke» the mutated version of the MYPBC3 gene inside human embryos, using technology that allows scientists to snip a specific target sequence on a mutant gene.