Sentences with phrase «of gene sequencing»

The BGI project to find these genes has hit some snags recently (e.g. a US lawsuit between the two biggest suppliers of gene sequencing machines).

Illumina, the world's leading seller of gene sequencing machines, unveiled its HiSeq X (pronounced «High Seek 10») on Tuesday.

The cost of gene sequencing has declined to where in February 2014 Illumina announced it had reached the milestone of $ 1000.

These graphite drawings are inspired by the biological dark matter uncovered through the process of gene sequencing.

We can leverage the lowering cost of gene sequencing to interrogate cells at a deeper level, and use computational tools to analyze the resulting data.

Interesting history of gene sequencing and the trends towards faster cheaper full genome sequencing.

«We now have an immense amount of gene sequencing information for a number of different diseases,» said Krogan.

Reference materials are critical to properly evaluate the next - generation of gene sequencing and genetic testing methods that will increase the reliability and effectiveness of precision medicine (also known as «personalized medicine»), in which a person's genetic profile is used to create treatments and therapies unique to that individual.

The researchers used the power of gene sequencing and clever computational methods to uncover the «source code» for human endothelial cells and learn how that code is disturbed in human disease.

As the cost of gene sequencing drops, DNA being sequenced for one purpose may yield many other secrets, such as the risk of certain cancers and Alzheimer's disease.

But the predictability they did hope for could be threatened by an evolving policy on the patentability of gene sequences, which is emerging from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington.

The earliest of the gene sequences were taken from four people of the Boncuklu community, who lived between 10,300 and 9,500 years ago.

Although the researchers suspected that having more copies of the gene sequence might confer a greater degree of resistance, they had no way of testing their suspicions before the new assay was developed.

Moreover, because they had an idea of what cells the genes came from and what kinds of gene sequences produce what kinds of proteins, they were able to draw some conclusions about what all those genes are good for.

The gene that codes for this clotting protein has a very similar sequence across many plant species, and the researchers showed that the microRNA from dodder targets regions of the gene sequence that are the most highly conserved across plants.

Alternative methods, such as readout of gene sequences, which is also done in paternity tests, are very time - consuming and expensive.

Nick and his team have developed a process based on small differences of the gene sequence to specifically apply gene scissors to certain points of the DNA strands that make up the genetic material.

According to Richard Durbin, who leads the project's informatics team, computer techniques seem to find most of the genes sequenced so far but frequently missed some pieces of them, particularly the short coding regions that occur at the beginning of many nematode genes.

They show that about 92 per cent of the population harbors bacteria with a variant of the gene sequence, according to a survey of public genome data from 250 adult humans.

Then Mays, along with molecular biologist G. Michael Taylor of Imperial College in London, confirmed that the scars were signs of TB by identifying traces of gene sequences from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the 2300 - year - old remains.

In particular, the comparison of gene sequences in large numbers of patients and controls will be a key step in strategies for disease gene identification.

Now, geneticist Bing Su of the Kunming Institute of Zoology in China and colleagues believe they have found another candidate by comparing the evolution of gene sequences across a menagerie of animals.

But less than one percent of the gene sequences in the lake ice came from these sources.

When scientists at the University of Delhi in India took soil samples from a pesticide dump and compared them with samples from a cleaner control site, they reported that the soil from the waste site contained a higher concentration of gene sequences from certain bacterial groups, such as Pseudomonas, Novosphingobium and Sphingomonas, that are known to degrade common pesticides like hexachlorocyclohexane.

His team then ignored all of these gene sequences that could easily have come from sources other than the lake.

We therefore assessed whether our new gene models will help resolve this by determining the proportion of each gene sequence that is unique in the genome.

Turns out, there's a scientific reason for why someone you've never met could look uncannily similar to you: Any two people taken at random are going to share about 99.5 percent of their gene sequence, according to Joseph McInerney, executive vice president of the American Society of Human Genetics.

Each chromosome contains hundreds (or thousands) of gene sequences that actually control inheritance.

Furthermore, banking nature in a deep freeze or database of gene sequences can not capture context.

At this point, researchers said, only a careful study of gene sequences and morphology can determine whether the source of the brown panda variation is in the air, the soil, or the shrinking genetic diversity of the giant pandas.

And researchers want more people to reveal their genome because it helps them better understand the significance of DNA anomalies, helping to improve the analytics that make sense of a gene sequence.

Not exact matches

That's not to say gene editing is new (it isn't), but Crispr simplifies the process by using molecular scissors that can be precisely targeted to snip out aberrant regions of genetic code, which can then be replaced with the correct sequences.

Here's why: In the late 90s, technology emerged enabling researchers to rapidly sequence RNA and DNA — giving them the ability to isolate and record the activity of single genes.

Synthetic biology is the practice of engineering gene sequences to create new biological systems and devices.

To date, no Canadian court has questioned the patentability of isolated gene sequences.

This is the work of Wang, a genomics professor and the director of gene - sequencing center BGI (formerly Beijing Genomics Institute).

Given the similarities between the Canadian Patent Act and its U.S. counterpart for the definition of «invention», the Canadian Patent Office has for many years granted claims like Myriad's to isolated gene sequences and continues to do so.

That's attached to the progress of sequencing technology, the ability to edit cells, and other gene editing approaches have been transformative in the immunotherapy world in recent years.

But most existing funding was going toward sequencing the handful of genes most likely to lead to profitable drugs and gene therapies.

June 19, 2013 — A Cornell University study offers further proof that the divergence of humans from chimpanzees some 4 million to 6 million years ago was profoundly influenced by mutations to DNA sequences that play roles in turning genes on and off.

The order of sequence in which these bases are arranged determines the way the genes name each species.

With respect to antibiotic resistance, this novelty can be induced and we can trace the novelty to particular mutations arising absent gene transfer; i.e. the genes which give rise the resistance were not present prior to the mutation, they are new sequences and not simply the activation of dormant 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.»

Speaking about the film recently in Los Angeles, Cera — who in this film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away from his usual one - note nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (who also did the zany cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning of the film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the film's hyperkinetic action sequences are really just the same as the dance scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.

It is a term used by people grasping at straws to continue dismissing evolution even as the evidence builds faster than ever at the gene sequencing level (ie, most of you agree that drug resistant bacteria have evolved but the term MACRO evolution is misused intentionally so you could continue to dismiss science to save faith; pun intended).

A separate genetics adviser will review, support and identify potential linkages in the genetics component of methane mitigation, including genomics (work on recombinant DNA and gene sequencing) and genetic interaction with environment.

This dataset contains millions of genomic sequences from a diverse set of rice varieties that, when combined with phenotyping observations, gene expression, and other information, provides an important step in establishing gene - trait associations, building predictive models, and applying these models to breeding.

The researches found that the transgene was inserted into an active region of the genome, thereby disrupting the coding sequence and ultimately the function of the plants own OsAux1 gene.

Using gene - sequencing technology, researchers established that the precise segment of the pup's DNA «switched on» by the act of grooming was the part that controlled the future function of the hippocampus, which processes stress hormones.

In sequencing of the human genome, we learned that diseases rarely correlated to specific human genes.