Sentences with phrase «new genes relatively»

The species also accepts new genes relatively easily, making it a prime candidate for engineering.

Not exact matches

Marshall points out that the relatively fast appearance of new animal species in this period is not driven by new genes, but rather by evolving from existing genes through «rewiring» of the gene regulatory networks (GRNs).

But an explosion in powerful «gene - editing» techniques, which enable relatively easy and selective tinkering with genomes, raises a niggling question: why go to the trouble of making new life when you can simply tweak what already exists?

But this method of gaining new DNA, termed horizontal gene transfer, was thought to be relatively rare and to occur only under strong pressures in the environment, such as exposure to powerful antibiotics.

There has been much excitement among scientists about the power of these new gene editing methods, and particularly about the CRISPR / Cas9 system, which is relatively simple to use and generally very efficient.

The pivotal molecular markers that define the three tumor clusters — mutational status of the IDH1 and IDH2 genes and loss of chromosome arms 1p and 19q — are already routinely checked in clinical care, Verhaak noted, so implementing the new categories can be done relatively quickly.

«The viral gene therapy appears to create these new insulin - producing cells that are relatively resistant to an autoimmune attack,» Gittes says.

They used Escherichia coli, a bacterium into which it's relatively easy to insert new genes.

Other medical sequencing projects will use DNA sequencing to: discover new genes that are involved in common diseases; identify the genes responsible for dozens of relatively rare, single - gene (autosomal Mendelian) diseases; sequence all of the genes on the X chromosome from affected individuals to identify those involved in sex - linked diseases; and survey the range of variants in genes known to contribute to certain common diseases.

A relatively new technology called exome sequencing has identified a few families with novel mutations in their HD genes.

The relatively new area of thermogenetics involves using organisms that have been genetically modified to incorporate genes for temperature - sensitive proteins.

TEST CASE RESEARCHER Piroska Szabó, Associate Professor, Center for Epigenetics, Van Andel Research Institute ORGANISM Mouse METHOD RNA - seq In 2014, Szabó and colleagues reported how they'd used mouse embryonic fibroblasts to test whether the relatively new method of RNA sequencing could reveal known and novel imprinted genes.