Sentences with phrase «new genes directly»

The therapy involves injection of new genes directly into a patient's tumor tissue, a radical new approach to battling cancer and other disorders.

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Using a new technique to deliver gene - therapy - like intervention directly where it's needed, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University successfully increased or decreased the muscle tone of the anal sphincter in appropriate animal models.

The new approach could look directly at the toxic strain's genes to see how they functions.

In the new work, Miranda M. Lim of Emory University and her colleagues inserted a gene that encodes for the vasopressin receptor protein directly into the brains of male meadow voles.

This new DNA evidence directly measured the activity of all genes in the offspring of hatchery and wild fish.

One surprising finding from the study co-led by Johns Hopkins, Ehret says, was that many of the new sites identified were near genes that are active in cells that line the inside of blood vessels, suggesting those cells are somehow involved directly in blood pressure control.

The new findings, published online in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, show that combining rapamycin with a gene therapy approach enhanced the animals» ability to summon immune cells called CD8 + T cells to kill tumor cells directly.

New methods now allow researchers to sometimes directly show which genes have been activated or deactivated by the histones.

«This new work is exciting, because it shows that we can directly target genes within a specific cell type, which is important for targeted therapies,» says Hedrick, a Professor in the Division of Inflammation Biology.

We can even manipulate the genome directly with new editing techniques to examine, create, or correct gene mutations that are specific to one person.

Researchers identified a new location where the vitamin - D receptor appears to bind directly to DNA and activate a gene known as MKP - 1, interfering with the inflammatory cascade promoted by long - term stress and a highly refined, processed food diet.

It was shown in a study out of the University of New Mexico that the woman's proclivity to cheating on her spouse is almost directly proportional to how many immune system genes she shares with her spouse.