This is an example of
normal genes put together in an aberrant situation.
Not exact matches
Knocking out a particular
gene in muscle lets mice run twice as far as
normal; knocking out the same
gene in fat cells allows the animals to
put on weight without developing type - 2 diabetes.
To understand how DIXDC1 mutations
put normal brain function at risk, Cheyette's team turned to mutant mice that lacked a functioning copy of the
gene.
The scientists took the
genes for the most effective liver cancer antigen receptors on those T cells,
put those receptors on human T cells and the resulting engineered human T cells eradicated the cancer as well, without hurting
normal liver cells, they report in the journal Hepatology.
Basically, the cells to be reprogrammed are removed from their
normal culture system and exposed to the
genes (in a
gene delivery system), then
put back into a new culture system.
«Low - Calorie Diet Slows Aging in Mice in Study,» claimed a recent headline.17 According to the article, «
Putting elderly mice on a very low - calorie diet for as little as four weeks reversed many of the changes in the activity of various
genes that had occurred during
normal aging...» The resesearchers were not looking at actual signs of disease, nor were they measuring lifespan, but instead focused on the analysis of 11,000 different
genes using a method called microarray technology in which Spindler has large financial holdings.