Sentences with phrase «of genes as»

[The Anthropocene] comes with all of these ethical questions, some of which you explore in the book — that come in recreating a species or with the mashing up of genes as with genetically modified organisms we utilize.

Dr. Fasano gave a beautiful analogy of our genes as a piano and our intestinal bacteria as the piano player who determines what type of song the piano will play?

We considered a minimum ten fold difference in the expression levels of genes as a relevant criterion for classifying them as high and low expression genes.

This advance established that cells retain all of their genes as they specialize and that fully developed cells can be re-set to an embryonic state — controversial discoveries at the time.

At the lowest level of resolution, the map widget can display the order and length of genes as they appear in a large (megabase size) section of genomic DNA.

But in a recent study, researchers described a balancing act that seems more counterintuitive than most: Bacterial cells prioritize transcription — the process of making RNA transcripts of genes as the first step in protein production — over repairing double - strand breaks in their DNA.

We have found that some of these variants are located in genome regions conserved down to the zebrafish, and surrounded by the same neighborhood of genes as in the human genome.

The authors reported that the genome of the domesticated watermelon contained 23,440 genes, roughly the same number of genes as in humans.

Bacteria hold on to some of their genes as little circles of DNA within their bodies, which are called plasmids.

Cells use different molecular mechanisms to orchestrate the activation and deactivation of genes as needed.

In a way, we can think of these genes as messengers from the past.

Rice, for example, may have up to 50,000 genes — about the same number of genes as wheat or corn — but its genome is only 1/38 the length of the wheat genome.

Then they determine the sequence of as many of those genes as their grant money will allow — typically around a thousand, coming from a thousand bacterial cells — and use that information to estimate how many different kinds of bacteria are present in the sample.

Instead, Yanai and Lercher use the idea of a society of genes as a vantage point from which to reintroduce the entire field of evolutionary genetics.

«People have historically thought of genes as being a key way that parents transmit their advantages and disadvantages to their kids, and this casts some serious doubt on that,» Rauscher said.

«We thought that what we were seeing was the rapid specialization of genes as venoms, and loss of their other function.»

The researchers named the method after a fish famous for swimming upstream because it employs an algorithm that can estimate the effect of biases and the expression level of genes as experimental data streams by.

Think of our genes as the vestiges of an ancient library in which geneticists are trying to piece together and decipher the books; now think of that ruin being paved over for a new airport.

«Most look exclusively at words, seen as something like the equivalent of the gene as a unit of analysis in genetics,» says Lyle Campbell, a historical linguist at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

«We want to characterize each line of mice broadly with no assumptions about what the gene is or is not doing,» said IMPC Executive Director Mark Moore, Ph.D. «If you think of the function of a gene as a needle in a haystack, we're removing the haystack so you can see what the needle does.»

We are currently quantifying the genetic variability of this gene as well as other closely linked genes using a genomic approach.

Scientists discovered that when this occurs, a DNA repair process employed within human embryos activates to fix the broken gene, using the normal copy of the gene as a template.

Not exact matches

Recently a team of its researchers combed through this data, searching the the genomes of 89,283 people for correlations between particular genes and a person's self - reported status as a lark or night owl.

And so it is no surprise that a four - year - old gene - editing tool called CRISPR - Cas - 9 has been hailed as the biotech breakthrough of the century.

The treatment, named Kymriah, was hailed by doctors and the life sciences community as a major advance in medicine and a boon to children and young adults with a certain form of leukemia (the group for whom the gene therapy is approved).

Only in the past decade has RNA been discovered to carry out a wide variety of specific tasks in genetics, such as turning particular genes on or off.

Former CEO Gene Isenberg made over $ 108 million in the last three years, and as he exits the CEO post to become chair of the energy drilling company, Nabors» (NBR) board is granting what Gary Strauss has suitably called a «platinum kiss,» a handsome thank - you estimated to be $ 100 to $ 165 million for his services.

You know Gene Simmons as a member of the band KISS, but he's also one savvy entrepreneur.

RNA interference involves synthesizing short strands of RNA that will turn off harmful genes, such as the ones that allow viruses to spread.

They are seeking damages from former CEO Gene Isenberg and current CEO Anthony Petrello as well as members of the board of directors in a federal class action lawsuit filed by the Erie County Employees Retirement System.

Luxturna is the first of a crop of treatments that target diseases caused by mutations in specific genes, and thus is referred to by many as the first gene therapy in the U.S.

The biopharma world went into a bit of a frenzy on Tuesday as Nature reported that a team of Chinese scientists had become the first in the world to launch human trials of the groundbreaking CRISPR gene - editing technology.

Now that the barrier of editing genes in the hospital setting has been broken, these companies and more have pipelines of gene - editing innovation coming to a hospital near you in the next few years, as clinical trials are approved and new ways to cure formerly incurable diseases go mainstream in our lifetimes.

Shah's argument about «an inferior competitive landscape» makes no sense, however, although it's of a piece with other Tesla mega-bulls, such as Loup Ventures» Gene Munster, who seems to think that Tesla can basically sell 11 million cars in the US alone.

In addition to the «subtle influences» of our genes on our behavior, our environment (or surrounding cultural norms and conditions) as well as our nurturing (i.e. upbringing, whom we choose to surround ourselves with and what we think about) is what really makes us who we are.

The gene - silencing strategy, in the form of RNA interference, has also showed promise against an uncommon neurodegenerative disease called hereditary ATTR amyloidosis, as my colleague Sy Mukherjee wrote about in Fortune's year - end Investor's Guide.

Apple's next version of the iPhone will lead to a «paradigm shift,» with augmented reality as its foundation, said Gene Munster, managing partner at VC firm Loop Ventures.

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But organizers of the International Summit on Human Gene Editing said editing genes in human embryos was permissible for research purposes, so long as the modified cells would not be implanted to establish a pregnancy.

The advance is based on a technique that allows scientists to narrow in on a specific gene and cut - and - paste bits of DNA to change its function, known as CRISPR - Cas9.

They plan to track chromosomes, the tightly coiled packages of DNA that contain the genes, in living cells as the cells are dividing.

The group's guidance follows calls for various bans on use of the technology known as CRISPR - Cas9, which has quickly become the preferred method of gene editing in research labs because of its ease of use compared with older techniques.

Gene Munster, founding partner of Loup Ventures and former star Apple analyst at Piper Jaffary, discusses the future of artificial intelligence (AI), highlighting Google, Amazon and Apple as the three companies best - positioned to lead the charge.

CRISPR gene - editing has already been vaunted as a tool that could eventually be used to tackle everything from HIV / AIDS to sickle cell disease to a variety of other disorders.

Using the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to turn off certain genes in a mouse zygote as well as other new techniques to enrich the pluripotent stem cells of a rat, the group managed to grow various rat organs (a pancreas, heart, and eyes) in a mouse embryo.

I regard as dubious claims that going into a college classroom is one of the things that triggers entrepreneur genes.

One believes leaders are born (such as the Great Man theory of leadership and gene theory).

KGI's analysis joins Gene Munster of Loup Ventures who collected data on various iPhone 8 configurations and ship times on Apple's website as a snapshot of how the unusual launch is going.

But the advent of such revolutionary technologies, as well as others such as CRISPR - Cas9 and gene - editing, have raised concerns about a brave new world where «designer babies» are a possibility.

The Kamens claim the main thing that distinguishes their foundation from other brain tumor foundations is their focus on pediatric brain cancer specifically, as well as their close ties with pharmaceutical and biotech companies working in the fields of immunotherapy and target gene therapy.