Sentences with phrase «of human genes»

Right or not, about 20 percent of all human genes already have been included in patent claims.

The expression of all human genes was analyzed in these tumors and correlated with different clinical parameters.

Our bodies contain ten times more bacteria than cells, and there are an estimated 3.3 million genes in the total bacteria DNA, which is 160 times the number of human genes.

A new catalog of human genes reveals that people have many different ways to build proteins.

Therefore, the discussion of the ethical and legal issues arising from the use of human genes for research is also relatively new.

The committee advocates labels on foods containing copies of human genes.

Normally an egg and sperm each contribute one copy of the full set of human genes to an embryo.

Combining two copies of a mother's genes would theoretically achieve the same thing, yielding an embryo carrying a complete complement of human genes.

Researchers have identified disease - causing variants in about a quarter of human genes; many other variants are of uncertain significance.

After inserting more than 400 human genes into yeast cells, researchers found that almost half of the human genes actually worked and kept the yeast alive!

About 20 % of the human genes uncovered by the analysis are already associated with diseases, but many are not — yet.

This gene chip and other newly developed devices can detect activity of all human genes.

That total comes impressively close to low - end estimates of the quota of human genes.

A well - studied example of a human gene is the ACE gene on chromosome 17, which seems to predict physical performance.

Since its release, the reference genome has been updated many times and represents the best knowledge about the locations of human genes and their normal variation.

It was one in a long line of some 40,000 patents on DNA molecules awarded in the past three decades, covering more than 20 percent of human genes.

The number of human genes is about 20,000 - 25,000.

Representatives of Green MEPs accused the parliament's delegation of a «sellout» because they agreed to wording that will allow patenting of human gene sequences.

Until the ability to knock out genes in the mouse was developed, determining the function of human genes seemed largely out of reach, tantalizingly so.

His research has involved studies of the expression of human genes in normal and diseased states and the detection of nucleic acid alterations.

This widens the catalogue of human genes associated with severe metabolic disorders.

«Those were very dark days when people worried the field was not going to survive,» says David T. Curiel, director of the division of human gene therapy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Buffeted by the shifting winds of human genome research, government officials have decided to close an 8 - year - old collection of human gene maps maintained by Johns Hopkins University.

If the New York ruling is upheld on appeal, experts say, hundreds or even thousands of human gene patents could be put in limbo.

«This paper lifts the lid off something that had been largely unsuspected: the tremendous species - specific dimension of human gene regulation,» says Trono.

Then they examined its contents with cutting - edge mass spectrometry combined with searches of human gene databases.

Several speakers addressed the least controversial clinical use of human gene editing — employing CRISPR and its competitors on cells other than eggs, sperm, or embryos in order to treat disease.

The new scheme to chart the «history and geography of human genes» through DNA analysis of far - flung «primitive» peoples rests on the mistaken assumption that such exotics do not have a history, says Marks.

«85 % of these genes are required for nephrocyte function, suggesting that a majority of human genes known to be associated with NS play conserved roles in renal function from flies to humans,» said Zhe Han, Ph.D., senior author of the paper and Associate Professor at the Centre for Cancer and Immunology Research at Children's National.

Of the two epigenetic markers, H3K4me3 was found to be the most prevalent — the scientists reported and noted that it occurs near the DNA areas that are promoters of two - thirds of human genes.

To pinpoint the appeal of British B - movie bruiser Jason Statham, one need look no further than the place where the ball of Statham's foot, the crown of his head, or the bend of his elbow makes sudden, bone - shattering contact with some lesser specimen of the human gene pool.

The researchers determined that 176 of the human genes allowed yeast to survive the loss of a vital gene.

I realized we couldn't understand complexity one gene or one protein at a time; we needed a parts list of every human gene and the protein it coded for.

Knowledge of human genes might not only rid future generations of intolerable diseases, but enable us to reshape human nature.

Many thoughtful citizens, including eminent scientists, oppose the deciphering and altering of the human gene structure, and are appalled by the proposed commercial uses of knowledge gained from such activities.

The researchers also analyzed the somatic mutation frequencies of all human genes.

Mice born with extra copies of a human gene develop learning defects that may resemble those in Down syndrome.

«HIV protein manipulates hundreds of human genes to advance progression into AIDS, study shows.»

Scientists at Bayer made an artificial version of the human gene that manufactures factor 8 and inserted it into kidney cells taken from baby hamsters.

«We've seen this kind of switch happen before as we compared families of fly genes and families of human genes,» Shaw says.

Shaw reverses the process in a new paper, taking what he finds in humans back to the flies and gaining new insight into humans as a result: identification of a human gene that is more active after sleep deprivation.

Legal scholar Rosario Isasi at the University of Miami in Florida says that there are laws governing the manipulation of human genes — but she adds that they are badly worded and that there are exemptions that seem to be made for manipulations intended to cure deadly disease.

«Using a technique developed by our collaborators at the University of Iowa, we were able to get long - term expression of these human gene variants in the fluid that bathes the entire brain,» says Bradley Hyman, MD, PhD, of the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MGH - MIND), senior author of the report in the Nov. 20 Science Translational Medicine.

GDB's Internet - accessible files contain descriptions of human genes, maps of genome regions, genetic «markers» to help guide researchers, and 1.5 million «clones» — short human DNA sequences inserted into bacterial plasmids — that provide what are called «physical maps» to the genome.

He argues that current plans to reconstruct the history of human genes by sampling the DNA of exotic tribespeople throughout the world is fundamentally misguided.

At least one group has already used CRISPR on human embryos, sparking calls for a moratorium on similar work and an international summit at the end of 2015 to discuss the science and ethics of human gene editing.

He, Murphy, and their colleagues first looked for matches to 197,522 pieces of human genes in a variety of other mammals.