Sentences with phrase «of foreign genes»

Surveillance organizations like the U.S. and world antidoping agencies «will look for those signatures and patterns that can be tied, with confidence, to the existence of a foreign gene,» Friedmann says.

Horsager says the algal genes were only expressed in the target cells, and that there is no evidence of an immune response in the mice, suggesting that the transfer of the foreign gene has been restricted to the bipolar cells.

In only 1 percent of the bdelloid genome, Meselson found dozens of foreign genes from bacteria, plants, and fungi inserted among the native nucleotides.

«If we can stop the incoming flow of foreign genes while maintaining an environment similar to what was there pre-hybridization, wild populations are likely to recover — possibly in less time than previously thought,» he says.

Most of those foreign genes don't do anything, having degenerated into pseudogenes.

GFP also helps scientists track the introduction of foreign genes into DNA, a strategy used to create transgenic models to study cancer, diabetes, and other diseases.

Surveillance organizations like the U.S. and world agencies «will look for those signatures and patterns that can be tied, with confidence, to the existence of a foreign gene,» Friedmann says.