Sentences with phrase «new genes into»

Others have written about this before — Christie over at the Pet Connection recommmended opening up the breed registry to introduce new genes into the pool.

So when you begin mixing breeds you start adding new genes into the pool and the chances of the genetic diseases transferring to the offspring get smaller and smaller.

In particular, they are now looking for expertise in molecular biology, especially in virus - based techniques for introducing new genes into specific cell types in the grid - cell circuit.

Scientists have developed very precise tools for cutting standard plasmids and splicing new genes into them.

Verma was the first scientist to genetically engineer HIV - based tools to insert new genes into cells.

B could work as a potential vector for gene therapy, a technique that treats diseases by introducing new genes into cells or by replacing or inactivating genes already there.

Researchers can insert new genes into these or knock out existing genes with great precision.

To date, however, this research has been slowed by the inefficiency of the viruses that are now used as vectors to carry new genes into cells.

B: Well, we were in the midst of experiments aiming to use an animal virus to introduce new genes into human cells and into bacterial cells.

But help may be on the way: Scientists report in next month's issue of Nature Medicine that rats unable to digest lactose, a sugar in dairy foods, are cured by a pill that stitches new genes into the cells of the gut.

The team believes that whichever way BMP - 7 is used, it will be less risky than other treatments for type 1 diabetes that are currently being investigated, such as those that create pancreatic cells from stem cells, or by introducing new genes into the body.

They inserted a new gene into cells that carry the mutant protein.

But stem cell biologist and physician Michele De Luca of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy and his colleagues have been developing a way to counteract an EB - causing mutation by inserting a new gene into the cells used for grafts.

Then they injected the treated stem cells, which were assumed to have incorporated the new gene into their DNA, back into the babies» bone marrow.

The trick, then, is in getting the new gene into the bacteria.

Not exact matches

It's also working in Beijing on new technology in genome editing; unlike GMO technology, it doesn't involve inserting a gene from another species, such as a bacterium, into a plant.

The unique advantage of genetic modification lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits into new rice varieties.

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

It greatly increases the accuracy of incorporating only the gene of interest, and its associated trait, into a new rice variety.

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.

Once specific genes associated with beneficial traits are identified, they can be more efficiently transferred into new rice varieties using other breeding methods.

Breeding methods have been continually evolving, becoming more sophisticated and accurate at incorporating useful genes and traits into new crop varieties.

The newer process of genetic engineering, which involves inserting genes from unrelated species into a plant's genome to add desirable traits, has been used in crops such as corn, soy, and potatoes.

In 1982, Mario Cuomo and Koch got into a dispute about a hefty new real estate tax to fund the subway system, recalled longtime subway advocate Gene Russianoff.

Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS - related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus.

To discover these targets, the team determined when and where each gene is turned on or off in the cells and tissues of H. contortus to reveal new insights into the worm's lifecycle.

These highly repeated bits of DNA are capable of expressing and inserting new copies of themselves back into the genome — hence the sobriquet «jumping genes.»

But as new methods of genetic modification emerge, both the scientific and the sports communities are becoming increasingly aware that gene therapy — the insertion of genes into an individual's cells and tissues — will make its way onto the playing field.

Plants are crossbred to introduce traits / genes from one variety or line into a new genetic background.

«Decoding the genome's cryptic language: New tool to map RNA - DNA interactions could help researchers translate gene sequences into functions.»

A new study may deflate claims that water bears, technically called tardigrades, incorporate many genes from other organisms into their DNA.

As CRISPR - Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published in Nature Methods has found that the gene - editing technology can introduce hundreds of unintended mutations into the genome.

In this cycle, new gene copies often arise by gene duplication, with the copies persisting or adapting into new roles within the genome for varying lengths of time, or dying off and being lost randomly.

The discovery of the master gene that sends them into action promises a host of new treatments for infections, cancer and other diseases.

A report in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes a new method to insert genes into a mosquito that get passed on to its offspring.

Moreno's first job in the lab — helping a postdoc develop a mutagenesis technique to identify new genes involved in organ development and positioning — earned him a second - author paper in Science just a couple of years into his Ph.D..

While previous vectors have only been able to penetrate the cochlea's inner hair cells, the first Nature Biotechnology study showed that a new synthetic vector, Anc80, safely transferred genes to the hard - to - reach outer hair cells when introduced into the cochlea (see images).

Concurrent with reassortment of genes into new sets, a specific gene's mutation rate can be rapid, and thus the possibilities for dangerous new viral adaptations are constant.

The research opens the possibility of a new model organism for human heart health and the distant prospect of incorporating such a gene into humans.

The results of this study not only advance science's understanding of the links between genes, the brain and behavior, but may lead to new insight into such disorders as autism, Down syndrome and schizophrenia.

James Adjaye, a biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Germany, says that further work needs to be done before scientists can be sure that the genes found in the new work are actually indicate that an embryo will develop into a baby.

«We expected simply to see the jumping gene being silenced in the cytoplasm, so were really surprised to see it get converted into new piRNAs that were specifically loaded onto the PIWI protein that silences transposons in the nucleus,» explains Ramesh Pillai, from EMBL Grenoble.

«By inserting the new sequence into the DNA, perhaps they are altering the gene in some other way,» he says.

With the advent of new gene editing techniques, some less common animal models such as octopuses may find their way into scientists» toolkits.

Published in the journal Science, the new dataset offers fresh insights into the last 500 years of marriage and migration in Europe and North America, and the role of genes in longevity.

This placed them in a new family, meaning it was beneficial to care for their own children at first (because they were more genetically related to them than they were to the rest of the family) and to care for their grandchildren later (when more of their genes made it into the family group).

Two years ago the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline purchased Sirtris for $ 720 million, and by August of last year The New York Times was speculating that compounds capable of activating sirtuin genes were now the leading candidates for what the newspaper called «the ultimate free lunch... a drug that tricks the body into thinking it is on [a calorie - restricted] diet.»

Genetic modification — the ability to take genes from one species and splice them into another to create organisms with new properties — could be one of the biggest advances in recent science.

For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.

Being able to acquire new technologies, as well as becoming more innovative internally by venturing into new research areas, such as stem cell and gene therapy research, have allowed Genzyme to maintain its edge.