Sentences with phrase «mutated fly gene»
Like the Wizard of Oz's man of tin, the mutated fly gene, Bodmer discovered, led to a fly that lacked a heart.
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The less adept mice, Rubin's team found, carry extra copies of a previously known human gene called DYRK; a mutated version of an almost identical gene in fruit flies, called minibrain, causes neurological defects.
Prof. Hasan's work used Drosophila flies with mutated Orai genes that prevented normal operation of the SOCE process.
They mutated flies with P elements, little bits of DNA that jump around the fly's genome, inactivating genes.
The reason, reported in today's Science, is that fruit flies with a mutated methuselah gene live up to 35 % longer than normal fruit flies.
As they report in the Dec. 15 Science, the researchers ultimately found a mutated gene that nearly doubles the average life span of Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly.
Well, he died, but that gene mutated, and his son had another mutation, and he flew all the way across the Pacific.