Sentences with phrase «new genes for»

For 1,317 distinct genes, both copies were found to have deleterious mutations in at least one individual, resulting in «human knockouts» for a remarkable number of new genes for whom human knockouts have never been reported.

They went on to find new genes for receptors sensitive to different wavelengths of light.

The researchers propose that the rapid evolution and wholesale remodeling of the Y chromosome in both species have been caused by several mechanisms, including the competitive advantage gained by developing new genes for sperm production.

The effort has already had one practical result: the discovery of two new genes for resistance to a race of wheat stem rust to which there is virtually no resistance in wheat.

But they also collected wild relatives of chickpeas in southeastern Turkey that hold «great promise,» von Wettberg says, as a source of new genes for traits like drought - resistance, resistance to pod - boring beetles, and heat tolerance.

He notes that the Human Genome Initiative will increase the capacity to screen out undesirable traits «by identifying new genes for carrier and prenatal testing, including, potentially, genes for alcoholism, homosexuality and depression.»

«New gene for severe childhood epilepsy identified.»

«There's no question it's going to be a tremendous resource,» says Yale University's Judy Cho, who has used the HapMap to find a new gene for Crohn's disease.

An international research team that includes the University of Melbourne's Professor Sam Berkovic (AC) has identified a new gene for a progressive form of epilepsy.

Not exact matches

For a self - described bum off the streets of New York, Gene's — and the band's — success seems inevitable only in hindsight.

• Myonexus Therapeutics, a New Albany, Oh. - based clinical - stage biotechnology company developing transformative gene therapies for limb - girdle muscular dystrophies, raised $ 2.5 million in seed funding.

• Calyxt, the New Brighton, Minn. - based company based on gene - editing foods, filed for a $ 50 million IPO Friday.

These new entrants would need to get a licensing agreement from Myriad for anything they discovered related to the BRCA genes, which would effectively shut down future work by anyone other than Myriad in this area.

Collectively, this new kind of startup can help drive down the cost of gene therapy discovery for patients.

«Some of what they're doing borders on the edge of magic,» Gene Russianoff, the staff lawyer for a subway rider advocacy group, told the New York Times» Matt Flegenheimer.

Approved treatments included gene therapies and the first new drugs for rare diseases in many years.

Medical breakthroughs in 2018 range from new devices for sleep apnea to gene therapy for blindness, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

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.

Last month, Novartis AG (NOVN.S) won U.S. approval for the first of a new type of potent gene - modifying immunotherapy for leukemia, a $ 475,000 treatment that marks the start of a potential new treatment paradigm for some cancers.

Pfizer says it will also make some new hires for immuno - oncology and gene therapy, two fields where it recently completed major deals.

«Customers are clamoring for new and easy ways to interact with the organizations they deal with,» said Gene Alvarez, Gartner's research vice president.

Angling to be the go - to marketplace for these gene - based businesses, Helix, the spin out from genetic testing research and technology giant Illumina, has held a first close on a planned $ 200 million funding round led by new investor DFJ Growth.

By invalidating key parts of Myriad's patents, the court has removed a bar that prevented labs using new technology from developing and selling broader one - time tests that search for all known cancer risks, including the BRCA genes, geneticists said.

The swearing in of 85 MLAs last week was a particularly joyous and awe - filled occasion for the 70 who are brand new to the Legislature, and a bitter - sweet one for outdoing speaker Gene Zwozdesky, 66,...

Risk Versus Reward: The Value of Cell Therapy for Patients and Investors Source: Streetwise Reports (4/25/18) The cell therapy space, encompassing disruptive new treatment including stem cell therapy, immunotherapy and gene editing, has begun to mature, with a handful of product approvals and others in late - stage development.

Research on a new «gene editing» technology known as CRISPR — which theoretically allows any cell or organism to have its genome altered — is advancing exponentially, with early research ongoing on human embryos created for that purpose.

*** The search for a «gay gene» may be off - target, new research finds.

Even Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960) and Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun (1980 - 83)-- serious and sympathetic explorations of religion — aren't centrally concerned with the survival of the Church.

«The event, the fourth of its kind, seeks to raise global awareness and create a forum for collaboration around the wide array of powerful and promising cell therapies, gene therapies, and immunotherapies emerging from medical institutions around the world, as well as the impact new technology will have on humanity and society,» a press release by the Cure Foundation explains (h / t Christian Post).

[The search for a «gay gene» may be off - target, new research finds.

It is, as well, an antidote to Mississippi Burning, a dishonest, award - winning new film in which blacks wait patiently and fearfully in the background for deliverance by two white FBI agents, played by Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, who zealously bend the law in the interest of justice — a film one fears will have a profound effect on the way many Americans view their nation in the King Years («The Dream Dafoed,» as the Village Voice put it).

Due to my recent call for blogs from readers of this blog, I recently started reading A Quest for a New Perspective, and I am loving what Gene is writing there.

On the contrary, he finds it useful to ponder an array of reductionist attempts to explain the existence of religion, from that which seeks to pinpoint the area of the human brain or the specific genes connected to religiosity to that which sees religion as a malfunction of the human mind or a vestigial remnant from a primitive stage of human development suitable only for whimpering, immature dullards (a point of view championed by the new atheists).

The principles that have emerged thus far are these: We should seek new knowledge of our genes (and we can say this without deciding whether the Human Genome Initiative is the wisest and most cost - effective way to do so) We should seek therapies for the genetic disorders that afflict many people.

At the close of his essay Gene Logsdon asks, «Could humankind for once end an old cycle and begin a new one based on a pastoral food system without an intervening decline or collapse of the economy and civilization?»

Therefore, the plants with genes for superhot chiles had more offspring than the chiles with other parents.The mutation was discovered in 2016 by Dr. Peter Cooke of the New Mexico State University Core University Research Resources Laboratory.

In retrospect, it was serendipitous that Dr. Garcia picked the pasilla, Colorado, and negro types; these types probably intercrossed and produced progeny that contained novel gene combinations, allowing him to select for the new pod type and cultivar.

We are following international and national guidelines for food safety of genetically modified crops, which require assessment of the nutritional value of Golden Rice and potential toxicity and allergenicity of proteins from the new genes in it.

Data access and analysis tools are being made available for the 3K RGP dataset through the International Rice Informatics Consortium (IRIC), which promotes collaboration in bioinformatics analysis of rice data and provides computational tools to facilitate rice improvement via discovery of new gene - trait associations and accelerated breeding.

This massive dataset is a powerful resource for understanding natural genetic variation in rice as well as for large - scale discovery of new genes associated with economically important traits.

Genetic modification can also greatly increase the accuracy of incorporating only those genes for the needed trait into a new rice variety.

Before the products from these varieties can be used, they will need approval from the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator, which ensures GM plants are safe for humans and the environment and from Food Standards Australia and New Zealand which regulates food safety.

The EC has historically supported IRRI's work to conserve the genetic diversity of rice, understand the function of rice genes, and develop new rice varieties, particularly for use in difficult growing environments.

Beyond this, the unique power of GM lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.

A new gene technology to differentiate between male and female chicks pre-hatch could improve animal production, reduce costs and eliminate ethical dilemmas for the egg and poultry industries.

In 2012, at the Central Institute for Cotton Research in Nagpur, I saw a new variety of GM cotton carrying two so - called «stacked» Bt genes in one test plot, while a nearby plot was testing a variety of cotton using organic methods — for some farmers the premium prices for organic cotton make it worthwhile.

The researchers identified several reasons for this: The new gene constructs interfere with the plant's own gene for producing growth hormones, and the additional gene constructs were not, as intended, active solely in the kernels, but also in the leaves.

Gene Stallings, the Cardinals» new coach, may be best remembered for the controversy he created while head coach at Texas A & M from 1965 to 1971.

(When Gene Romero, the Honda team manager, asked Skip Eaken, a veteran mechanic new to the Honda team, whom he wanted to work for, Eaken replied, «I want Bubba.»)

We've been hearing about better male birth control for years now, but in recent weeks two new promising options have come to light: RISUG (reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance), being developed by an Indian scientist, Sujoy Guh, and the discovery of a gene, Katnal1, critical for sperm production; if scientists can tweak the gene with a pill, sperm production will be stalled.