Sentences with phrase «now know the genes»

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Ho - mo - logous or - gans are now known to be produced by totally different gene complexes in the different species.

It is now known that biological inheritance takes place through the genes.

People of every nation, color, language, belief, and condition are now known to possess in their body cells trait factors drawn by an inconceivably complex sequence of intercombinations from a common «gene pool.»

Now we know that it is the DNA and genes and chromosomal segregation and linking that causes selective inheritance of various traits in humans.

Now i am diabetic due to my genes, but i know how to give a good shot, and i do nt have an issue with the foods!

A World War II veteran who lived through the invasion of Normandy on D - day, Gene returned home to Petaluma, CA to found what is now one of the most respected dairy processors in the country, and became a pillar of his community, known for his generosity to those less fortunate.

«Now we know which gene is at the top of the hierarchy, it opens the door to the whole machinery for making them,» says Brady, who is looking for new drugs to boost immunity.

Biologists now know that the genome sequence holds only a small part of the answer, and that key elements of development and disease are controlled by the epigenome — a set of chemical modifications, not encoded in DNA, that orchestrate how and when genes are expressed.

«Now, we know that epigenetic factors accumulate at a very different pace in each person, depending on the genetic variants of the lactase gene.»

The protein is now known to interact with and control dozens of different genes and proteins, and it helps regulate the cycle of molecular events by which cells grow and reproduce.

Who knows, those lost genes might be useful to us 1,000 years from now, but there's no way to preserve them.

«We still don't know exactly how it does what it does,» Armstead says, «but now we have the gene and we can begin to study it.»

One area like — now again, all of these areas, you know, have been discovered by others — is molecular - associated biology identifying genes that are important [in] social behavior.

With the aid of DNA markers, we now know which gene is responsible for which molecular feature.

Although piRNAs have been known about for many years, scientists have until now had very little understanding of exactly how the piRNAs that guide PIWI proteins to jumping genes in the nucleus are produced.

«Professor Hummon and I have been mapping gene expressions for the right versus the left side of the colon, which we now know are different from each other due to the way the colon forms,» said Buechler.

«It was kind of fun being at a medical school and known as the weird guy who worked with dogs,» says Modiano, who is now a professor of comparative oncology at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine and the Masonic Cancer Center, where his research focuses on immunology, cancer cell biology, cancer genetics, and applications of gene therapy.

Now, in a provocative study that raises unsettling questions about the widespread use of vitamin supplements, Swedish researchers have showed that relatively low doses of antioxidants spur the growth of early lung tumors in cancer - prone mice, perhaps by hindering a well - known tumor suppressor gene.

«For a long time now, the entire field was collecting data on MYC, LIN41, and other genes and proteins without knowing what most of it meant,» said Yamanaka, who is also director of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University, and professor at UC San Francisco.

Now with that evidence at hand, we know that we must screen stem cells for mutations or collect them at younger age to ensure their mitochondrial genes are healthy,» said Mitalipov.

Singer now believes that her daughter's autism was largely caused by genes, but genetic testing when she was first diagnosed revealed no known pathogenic deletions or duplications in her genome.

«So now we know there's overlap among the genes that affect DNA repair, hypoxia tolerance and cancer suppression,» he said.

We now know how to turn fat cells into ones that burn calories as heat rather than store them — raising the prospect of a gene therapy for obesity

These flies — a variety now known as «Dark - fly» — outcompete their light - loving cousins when they live together in constant darkness, according to research reported in the February issue of G3: Genes Genomes Genetics.

Researchers indeed now know fine details about the genes, receptors, and cell - to - cell communications that drive these processes.

«We now know that the gene ap2mu is an important factor in determining how well our drugs kill malaria parasites.

Though this is true for some traits, we now know that many traits are controlled by tens or even hundreds of genes spread throughout our genomes.

«Many research groups are looking at how genes are regulated from the perspective of which genes need to be turned «on» for a cell to advance to the next stage of development, but now we see that it's just as important to know which genes need to be turned «off,»» Cook - Andersen said.

«Now that we know how calcification happens and what the key nodes are, we know what genes to look for that might be mutated in other related forms of cardiovascular disease.»

«A mutation on this gene is known to be fatal, and the only treatment available up until now has been a bone marrow transplant that must take place before the age of five.

By developing a new technique for labeling the gene segments of influenza viruses, researchers now know more about how influenza viruses enter the cell and establish cell co-infections — a major contributing factor to potential pandemic development.

Now, the Salk team has found the connection and a new target for therapy: a little - known gene called DIXDC1.

As a result, the H19 gene, which restricts growth, was no longer active while the Igf2 gene, which promotes cell division, was now expressed from both the paternal and the maternal allele.

And we now know that it is the same epigenetic mechanisms that occur in brain as occur in liver, just involving, only the specifics differ — brain genes in brain, liver genes in liver.

«What we want to know now is what is happening at these sites where the genes are congregating,» Associate Professor Mylne said.

«Now that we know where in the body and in who the gene is acting, we can start to look at... a potential strategy to modify risk of diabetes.»

Now that the sequence of the PfEMP1 genes and proteins is known, it may be possible to screen for drugs to block the production of the proteins, and so prevent infected cells sticking to capillaries.

«If you told someone that it matters whether they inherited genes from their mother or father, then that would change the way you conducted an experiment,» Valdar says, «because now you know what to look for.»

That DNA includes slightly less than 21,000 protein - coding genes (some researchers once estimated we had more than 100,000 such genes); «genes» for 8800 small RNA molecules and 9600 long noncoding RNA molecules, each of which is at least 200 bases long; and 11,224 stretches of DNA that are classified as pseudogenes, «dead» genes now known to really be active in some cell types or individuals.

«Now that we know that the Sprague - Dawley rats are prone to binge eating, this helps narrow the scope of the thousands of possible genes that could contribute to this disorder,» Klump said.

Now we know that these tumors are most likely the gene amplified variety.

It's now known that single gene mutations in other organisms can lengthen life span.

«We now know that this increase in beak length, and the difference in beak length between birds in Britain and mainland Europe, is down to genes that have evolved by natural selection.»

In another paper in the same issue, a team led by molecular biologist Ronald Plasterk, now at the Hubrecht Laboratory in Utrecht, the Netherlands, reports an intriguing twist: The same genes appear to be responsible for both RNAi and another gene - silencing mechanism known as cosuppression, in which adding extra copies of a gene cause both the new and the existing copies of that gene to be shut down.

The interaction between corn and fungal genes has been known for decades, but until now, scientists didn't know the molecular makeup of those genes in the fungus, or where they were located in the genome.

But now we know that [they] did have [the] FOXP2 gene, which implies that they probably could speak to each other pretty well.

Until now, we didn't know any of the phytoplankton genes responsible for the synthesis of this highly abundant marine nutrient.»

Now Yi - Yun Liu at the South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou and colleagues have discovered the first known resistance gene for colistin that is able to move freely from one bacterium to another.

A well - known breeding technique called backcrossing has become far more potent recently, as markers have allowed scientists to locate rare offspring that retain only the desired — and now detectable — genes from orphan crops.

To discover those genes, Esther van der Knaap, a Tanksley alumnus now at The Ohio State University, says she went straight for the heirlooms, which exhibit a range from the Jersey Devil's small, chili - pepper shape to plump, cracked beefsteaks known as Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter.