Sentences with phrase «of new genes»

A European consortium of epilepsy researchers has reported the discovery of a new gene involved in severe childhood epilepsy.

In this a genetic count was made of new genes involved in the prevention of DNA - RNA hybrids, which cause genetic instability.

The function of these new genes was initially a mystery.

We are going to provide international databases with hundreds of millions of new genes with unknown metabolic capabilities so far and with potential applications.

Now, researchers have discovered a handful of new gene variants responsible for this palette of tones.

Unlike the 13 genes that were discovered to play a role in hair color, these hundreds of new genes are more accurate at detecting hair color than the previously discovered genes.

This massive dataset is a powerful resource for understanding natural genetic variation in rice as well as for large - scale discovery of new genes associated with economically important traits.

In the paper, the model is used to demonstrate a number of these approaches, including detailed investigations of DNA - binding protein dynamics and the identification of new gene functions.

In these people, the disease is the result of a new gene defect (genetic mutation).

The identification of these new genes enables diagnostic DNA testing and is the first step toward the development of new treatments.

The therapy involves injection of new genes directly into a patient's tumor tissue, a radical new approach to battling cancer and other disorders.

This massive dataset is a powerful resource for understanding natural genetic variation in rice as well as for large - scale discovery of new genes associated with economically important traits.

Yesterday a team of University of Pennsylvania researchers — led by Dr Pablo Tebas, Professor Carl June, and Dr Bruce Levine — announced the successful conclusion of a clinical trial to evaluate the safety of a new gene therapy technique for treating HIV.

There has been much excitement among scientists about the power of these new gene editing methods, and particularly about the CRISPR / Cas9 system, which is relatively simple to use and generally very efficient.

For 1,317 distinct genes, both copies were found to have deleterious mutations in at least one individual, resulting in «human knockouts» for a remarkable number of new genes for whom human knockouts have never been reported.

In addition, projects to perform genetic interaction screens on disease genes in model organisms (yeast, worm, fly, fish) will not be considered, unless the project includes substantive specific aims that investigate the disease relevance of any new genes discovered in human or mammalian model systems.

Regulatory changes in developmental programs are by far the more common mechanism in the evolution of body plans and body parts than is the evolution of new genes.

But they also collected wild relatives of chickpeas in southeastern Turkey that hold «great promise,» von Wettberg says, as a source of new genes for traits like drought - resistance, resistance to pod - boring beetles, and heat tolerance.

For several decades, much attention has been placed on gene duplication as a source of new gene functions.

But the wealth of new gene sequences provided evolutionary geneticists Peter Keightley of the University of Edinburgh, U.K., and Adam Eyre - Walker of the University of Sussex in Brighton, U.K., with enough data for calculating reliable rates.

Venter says that with the generous funding his new institute has attracted, he will be able to increase his production of new gene sequences tenfold.

In a step toward accelerating the production of new gene therapies, scientists report in ACS Nano that they have developed remote - controlled, needle - like nanospears capable of piercing membrane walls and delivering DNA into selected cells.

Tina Hesman Saey discussed the power of a new gene - editing technique to boost the development of gene drives in «Gene drives unleashed» (SN: 12/12/15, p. 16).

Taking advantage of these «simplified» versions of melanoma, the researchers identified a dozen of new genes that are likely to play key roles in the initiation and / or progression of human melanoma.

(A — B) An example of new gene models generated for Olfr168 (A) and Vmn1r34 (B) are shown in black.

By tracking these two major markers, Treangen and Rocha calculated that the prokaryotes they studied acquired between 88 and 98 percent of new genes through horizontal transfer.

After extensive analysis of this new gene, the team discovered that moc1 functions as a chloroplast - specific «Holliday junction resolvase», which Nishimura continues, «is very important in untangling a DNA structure called Holliday junctions.

With the advent of new gene editing techniques, some less common animal models such as octopuses may find their way into scientists» toolkits.

For example, Agilent might help a drug company determine any off - target effects of a new gene - therapy product.

«Our aim now is to study the role of these new gene switches in disease models.»

Now, researchers have discovered a handful of new gene variants responsible for thispalette of tones.

The safety trial of the new gene delivery method is now underway at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

The technique is well established for many crops, and particle bombardment is less predictable, often yielding multiple, fragmented insertions of the new gene.

Allowing some of the economic benefit derived from the Orphan Drug Act to be used to lower the price of new gene therapy drugs.

In late 2012, the pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston assembled the components of the new gene - editing technology and fiddled with the DNA of a zebrafish embryo.

► The potency of new gene - editing technologies presents new ethical quandaries for scientists — as demonstrated by the debate following an announcement that a Chinese team had altered genes in a human embryo.

Gene therapy is the addition of new genes to a patient's cells to replace missing or malfunctioning genes.

«The Medaka experiment finding of new genes affected by microgravity provides a good animal model to clarify this mechanism.»

Its sperm and egg cells will thus bear two copies of the new gene, which radically increases the odds that its offspring will inherit it.

«Efficacy of new gene therapy approach for toxin exposures shown in mouse study.»

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have used a combination of brainpower and computer power to identify a multitude of new genes that control the formation of tiny, hair - like cilia that...

The scientists not only identified a whole host of new genes involved in heart formation, but they also refined exactly how these newly discovered genes interact with previously known genes.

Talkowski's team used this insight to identify a number of new genes related to the disease.

Carolyn's doctors were so impressed with her optimistic outlook that in 1995 they offered her an opportunity to participate in a test of a new gene therapy for breast cancer.

So far the voyage, which started in Nova Scotia and is now in the Caribbean, has more than doubled the number of known microorganisms — and uncovered millions of new genes.

Other labs will pitch in for the final assembly and annotation of the genome, as well as analyzing the functions of the new genes discovered.

In doing so, Wisecaver and her team were able to identify hundreds of new genes and discovered that plants and fungi organized these genes very differently on their respective genomes.