Sentences with phrase «newer genetic research»
New genetic research is helping pinpoint the roots of canine domestication.
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The mysterious origin of Australia's wild dingoes has become substantially clearer following new genetic research.
Editorial describing how new genetic research methods are being applied to studies of mental illness.
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The project's launch featured a prominent ALS patient and research advocate: Pat Quinn, co-founder of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, an initially - derided social media stunt that went on to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for ALS research and may have spurred important new discoveries about the disease's genetic roots.
Turns out it actually comes from a genetic mutation, and new research is challenging the way it acts.
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.
«The forms of a living being are not but rather come to be,» says Ludwig von Bertalanffy (BW 120), and his «organismic» biology and later general system - theory for overcoming the opposition between mechanism and vitalism has given central insights of Whitehead a new formulation on the basis of science, 8 Something similar holds for all the directions of research which Jean Piaget has brought to the [264] concept of genetic structuralism.9 The genetic epistemology founded by Piaget has proved through empirical research on the problem of knowledge the fruitfulness both of genetic analysis and of Whitehead's principle of process.
The increasing use of in - vitro - fertilisation techniques, and the emergence of new possibilities involving human cloning, mixing of human and animal genetic elements, and the use of embryonic stem cells for research, among other things, brought the need for further teaching.
Farmers and consumers benefit from rice genetic research because it leads to new rice varieties that have higher yield, higher quality, and are more resistant to pests, diseases, and the effects of climate change.
Thus a new generation of Terminator research is focused on biological containment to prevent engineered genetic traits (transgenes) from spreading to non-GM food plants and wild relatives.
Research collaboration is ongoing, including pest and disease management, sustainable farming systems, and conserving the genetic diversity of rice, with breeding new rice varieties remaining a priority.
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Research into genetic smell preferences is quite new and scientists are still determining the extent of personal differences.
And researchers generally shied away from clinical research on any patented genes — a 2003 survey found that 53 percent of genetics labs decided not to develop a new genetic test because of a patent or license.
Now, new research has found several rare genetic mutations on the same gene that definitively connect the two.
Rapid breakthroughs in genetic research, advances in molecular biology, and new reproductive technologies are enhancing our understanding of and responses to genetically inherited diseases.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Interbreeding with Neandertals restored some genetic heirlooms that modern humans left behind in the ancient exodus from Africa, new research suggests.
And new research shows how genetic alterations in this odd - colored blood have helped the octopus colonize the world's wide oceans — from the deep, freezing Antarctic to the warm equatorial tropics.The iron - based protein (hemoglobin) that carries oxygen in the blood for us red - blooded vertebrates becomes ineffective when faced with low - oxygen levels.
By exploiting new molecular and genetic insights, the research, done in collaboration with Pierre de Wit from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands, provides a better understanding of the defense system of crop plants against the damaging pathogens that grow in the spaces between plant cells.
The new research reveals that the Denisovans had low genetic diversity — just 26 to 33 percent of the genetic diversity of contemporary European or Asian populations.
New research under the direction of Adrian Liston (VIB / KU Leuven) has discovered that a common genetic defect in beta cells may underlie both forms of diabetes.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Organisms as different as plants, bacteria, yeast and humans could hold genetic swap meets and come away with fully functional genes, new research suggests.
«Genetic limits threaten chickpeas, a globally critical food: New research shows promise in improving crops with use of wild relatives.»
«Stem - cell research: A new genetic switching element.»
Now, new research suggests changes at the epigenetic level — specifically alterations in proteins that affect gene expression, rather than genetic mutations — could be driving childhood ependymomas.
«The implications for mouse experiments are profound, and could help us cut through some persistent sources of confusion,» in genetic research, said Dr. Thaddeus Stappenbeck, an immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a co-author of the new study.
New research examines how genetic improvement of specific sorghum traits, with an eye toward sustainability, could help maximize the usefulness of sorghum as a bioenergy crop.
New avenues of research could include the effects of reducing environmental stress, as well as whether pharmacological agents might be able to reverse the genetic alternations in vulnerable children before the disorder develops.
A new method to take the DNA fingerprint of individual cancer cells is uncovering the true extent of cancer's genetic diversity, new research reveals.
New discoveries half a world away by a team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, the Western Australian Museum, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have helped properly identify these elusive creatures through genetic analysis.
New research on HIV transmission shows that viral fitness is an important basis of a «genetic bottleneck» imposed every time a new person is infectNew research on HIV transmission shows that viral fitness is an important basis of a «genetic bottleneck» imposed every time a new person is infectnew person is infected.
Indeed, he notes, it's improbable that all of the previous genetic studies of red deer, including those living throughout Europe today, wouldn't have picked up any of the haplotypes he and his team identified in their new research.
Saskia Hagenaars, a PhD student from The University of Edinburgh's Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, who jointly led the research, said: «We identified hundreds of new genetic signals.
«I think it's a remarkable study,» says cardiologist William Fay of the University of Missouri in Columbia, who was part of the research team that originally identified the girl's genetic defect but isn't connected to the new work.
However, new research out of York University has now shown that these drugs also reverse a number of potentially detrimental genetic changes associated with heart disease.
«New research links genetic defects in carbohydrate digestion to irritable bowel syndrome.»
New research from an Iowa State University scientist identifies a genetic mechanism that governs growth and drought tolerance in plants, a development that could lead to better performing traits in crops.
For example, genetically engineered organisms used in the research laboratory to develop new chemical synthesis methods are not likely to require the same level of public dialogue as products that have more uncertainty associated with them, such as organisms with gene drives, which enhance organisms» ability to pass certain genetic traits on to their offspring.
The new diagnostic tool is used in research, but is also available to individuals for considerably less than many other genetic tests.
In addition to helping farmers check crop health, the new system will be helpful for studying how plants respond to changes in growing conditions and for high - throughput phenotyping, an automated method used in crop research and development to analyze how genetic modifications affect plant characteristics such as leaf size or drought resistance in a large number of plants.
New research indicates parents may pass on the infection to their kids in their genetic material
One of many researchers lending support to the cause is genome scientist and Nobelist John Sulston of the University of Manchester, U.K., who warns that «gene patents can have a chilling impact on research, obstruct the development of new genetic tests, and interfere with medical care.»
But the new Salk research, published in the journal eLife, suggests that rapamycin could also target the neural damage associated with Leigh syndrome, a rare genetic disease, and potentially other forms of neurodegeneration as well.
The researchers, led by Sara Jaeger, Jeremy McRae, and Richard Newcomb of Plant and Food Research in New Zealand, found that for four of the ten odors tested, there was indeed a genetic association, suggesting that differences in the genetic make - up determine whether a person can or can not smell these compounds.
The result of genetic analysis was a big surprise for the research team: the ancient individuals carried no trace of ancestry from people who settled Papua New Guinea more than 40,000 years ago, in contrast to all present - day Pacific islanders who derive at least one - quarter of their ancestry from Papuans.
New research by Rockefeller University scientists, published March 26 in Science, helps explain why: a rare genetic mutation.
The MDC researchers are fascinated by the new opportunities the CRISPR - Cas9 system offers for biomedical research, but strictly reject genetic modification of the human germline.
Because of the legislation, a FDA spokesperson noted in an email, «the agency will not receive or review INDs [Investigational New Drug applications] for human subject research utilizing genetic modification of embryos for the prevention of transmission of mitochondrial disease in FY 2016 and human subject research using these technologies can not be conducted in compliance with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and FDA's implementing regulations.»
Cattle downwind from industrial facilities in Texas suffer genetic damage, according to new research
New preclinical research provides support to a drug that has been repurposed to possibly treat a rare and extremely disabling genetic bone disease, particularly in children.