Sentences with phrase «of new genes for»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

For a self - described bum off the streets of New York, Gene's — and the band's — success seems inevitable only in hindsight.

Collectively, this new kind of startup can help drive down the cost of gene therapy discovery for patients.

«Some of what they're doing borders on the edge of magic,» Gene Russianoff, the staff lawyer for a subway rider advocacy group, told the New York Times» Matt Flegenheimer.

And a third, different kind of gene therapy from Spark Therapeutics — to treat a rare inherited form of blindness — is likely to be approved by the end of 2017, too, making this year a landmark for treatments that manipulate the body's own biological mechanisms in novel new ways to fight deadly diseases.

Last month, Novartis AG (NOVN.S) won U.S. approval for the first of a new type of potent gene - modifying immunotherapy for leukemia, a $ 475,000 treatment that marks the start of a potential new treatment paradigm for some cancers.

By invalidating key parts of Myriad's patents, the court has removed a bar that prevented labs using new technology from developing and selling broader one - time tests that search for all known cancer risks, including the BRCA genes, geneticists said.

The swearing in of 85 MLAs last week was a particularly joyous and awe - filled occasion for the 70 who are brand new to the Legislature, and a bitter - sweet one for outdoing speaker Gene Zwozdesky, 66,...

Risk Versus Reward: The Value of Cell Therapy for Patients and Investors Source: Streetwise Reports (4/25/18) The cell therapy space, encompassing disruptive new treatment including stem cell therapy, immunotherapy and gene editing, has begun to mature, with a handful of product approvals and others in late - stage development.

Even Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960) and Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun (1980 - 83)-- serious and sympathetic explorations of religion — aren't centrally concerned with the survival of the Church.

«The event, the fourth of its kind, seeks to raise global awareness and create a forum for collaboration around the wide array of powerful and promising cell therapies, gene therapies, and immunotherapies emerging from medical institutions around the world, as well as the impact new technology will have on humanity and society,» a press release by the Cure Foundation explains (h / t Christian Post).

It is, as well, an antidote to Mississippi Burning, a dishonest, award - winning new film in which blacks wait patiently and fearfully in the background for deliverance by two white FBI agents, played by Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, who zealously bend the law in the interest of justice — a film one fears will have a profound effect on the way many Americans view their nation in the King Years («The Dream Dafoed,» as the Village Voice put it).

Due to my recent call for blogs from readers of this blog, I recently started reading A Quest for a New Perspective, and I am loving what Gene is writing there.

On the contrary, he finds it useful to ponder an array of reductionist attempts to explain the existence of religion, from that which seeks to pinpoint the area of the human brain or the specific genes connected to religiosity to that which sees religion as a malfunction of the human mind or a vestigial remnant from a primitive stage of human development suitable only for whimpering, immature dullards (a point of view championed by the new atheists).

The principles that have emerged thus far are these: We should seek new knowledge of our genes (and we can say this without deciding whether the Human Genome Initiative is the wisest and most cost - effective way to do so) We should seek therapies for the genetic disorders that afflict many people.

At the close of his essay Gene Logsdon asks, «Could humankind for once end an old cycle and begin a new one based on a pastoral food system without an intervening decline or collapse of the economy and civilization?»

Therefore, the plants with genes for superhot chiles had more offspring than the chiles with other parents.The mutation was discovered in 2016 by Dr. Peter Cooke of the New Mexico State University Core University Research Resources Laboratory.

We are following international and national guidelines for food safety of genetically modified crops, which require assessment of the nutritional value of Golden Rice and potential toxicity and allergenicity of proteins from the new genes in it.

Data access and analysis tools are being made available for the 3K RGP dataset through the International Rice Informatics Consortium (IRIC), which promotes collaboration in bioinformatics analysis of rice data and provides computational tools to facilitate rice improvement via discovery of new gene - trait associations and accelerated breeding.

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.

Genetic modification can also greatly increase the accuracy of incorporating only those genes for the needed trait into a new rice variety.

Before the products from these varieties can be used, they will need approval from the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator, which ensures GM plants are safe for humans and the environment and from Food Standards Australia and New Zealand which regulates food safety.

The EC has historically supported IRRI's work to conserve the genetic diversity of rice, understand the function of rice genes, and develop new rice varieties, particularly for use in difficult growing environments.

Beyond this, the unique power of GM lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.

In 2012, at the Central Institute for Cotton Research in Nagpur, I saw a new variety of GM cotton carrying two so - called «stacked» Bt genes in one test plot, while a nearby plot was testing a variety of cotton using organic methods — for some farmers the premium prices for organic cotton make it worthwhile.

We've been hearing about better male birth control for years now, but in recent weeks two new promising options have come to light: RISUG (reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance), being developed by an Indian scientist, Sujoy Guh, and the discovery of a gene, Katnal1, critical for sperm production; if scientists can tweak the gene with a pill, sperm production will be stalled.

If in the first 10 days of life you have a low nurturing rat mother (the equivalent of the first 6 months of life in a human), the gene never gets turned on and the rat is anxious towards new situations for the rest of its life, unless drugs are administered to alleviate the anxiety.

The recent Lancet Breastfeeding Series refers to new discoveries being made about breastmilk — such as its role in gene expression — so it can be expected that Nestle will use the strategy of launching «new improved» formulas that are «closer to breastmilk» for decades to come (Nestle is currently investing heavily in epigentics research).

So we saw the Greater New York Taxi Association, not generally known for its good works (Gene Freidman's bio on the GNYTA website lists the «Israeli Defense Force» as one of his favorite charities), suing the City over ADA requirements, over its failure to allow for hybrid vehicles as stipulated by the City Council, etc etc..

This money came from major medallion owners, including $ 4000 each from Evgeny «Gene» Freidman (who was recently in the news for his assertion that Mayor Bloomberg personally promised to «destroy [his] fucking industry» when he leaves office), Guy Roberts, and Neomi Yakuel, all of whom are on the board of the Greater New York Taxi Association, a powerful trade organization.

The photo was a picture of Latimer and 3 A. L. Post 8 Commanders, Tom O «Keefe, and the 2 previous Commanders, Gene McLeer and Larry Meyers, presenting George with a «Certificate of Appreciation» from the Post 8 membership for Latimer's almost 2 years of tireless work, with others in the community, to obtain a New York State CCAP Grant of $ 50,000 for the much needed repair of the Post's windows and roof.

Political Independent Gene DeFrancis Readies GOP Bid for State Assembly New York Assembly candidate (8oth AD) Gene DeFrancis became the official nominee of the Republican Party of Bronx County back February 13, 2018.

In addition to DOT Commissioner Trottenberg and officials, also in attendance at today's Task Force meeting were: Luke DiPalma and Buckley Yung of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA); Anthony Iuliano of the New York City Department of Buildings; Howard Pollack of the NYC Department of Design & Construction (DDC); Deputy Inspector Thomas Conforti, Detective Kevin O'Donnell and Officer Joseph McCall of the NYPD 109th Precinct; Gene Kelty, Charles Apelian and Marilyn Bitterman of Community Board 7; Dian Song Yu of the Downtown Flushing Business Improvement District; Ikhwan Rim, President of the Union Street Business Association; Chris Kui of Asian Americans for Equality; Michael Meyers and Howard Hsu of the F&T Group; Glen Johnson of Tishman Speyer; Rick Sondik of the Rockefeller Group; Daryl Finn of Skyview Center / Related Management; representatives for State Senator Toby Stavisky, Assemblymember Ron Kim and Councilmember Peter Koo.

Gene Russianoff, an attorney for the Straphangers Campaign, a transportation advocacy group, said that such horse - trading was a normal part of how policy gets made in New York.

The discovery of a new mechanism for shutting down imprinted genes also raises many provocative questions, Zhang says.

«But the discovery of this network of genes linked to epilepsy opens avenues for finding new treatments.

The scientists used CRISPR, a gene - editing tool, to alter inserted genes so that the enzymes for which they coded would work most efficiently amid the exotic acidity, osmotic character and chemical composition of their new home.

Gene therapy delivered to a specific part of the brain reverses symptoms of depression in a mouse model of the disease — potentially laying the groundwork for a new approach to treating severe cases of human depression in which drugs are ineffective.

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire, added: «This new understanding of plant defense through ETD suggests different operations of specific resistance genes which will help us to be more successful in breeding new strains of crops for resistance.

An international team led by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a new technique for identifying gene enhancers — sequences of DNA that act to amplify the expression of a specific gene — in the genomes of humans and other mammals.

Diane Dickel is the lead author of Nature Methods paper describing a new technique for identifying gene enhancers in the genomes of humans and other mammals.

A new meta - analysis suggests that low expression levels of 10 related gene sets responsible for mitochondrial machinery play an important role in this disorder — all previously unlinked to Parkinson's.

The major concern is that current gene drives «are probably too powerful for us to seriously consider deploying in conservation,» says geneticist Neil Gemmell of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.

As well as understanding the implications of finding this new variant of the botulism gene cluster in a non-clostridial species of gut bacterium, the team are interested in exploring how it might help in developing new treatments for diseases.

The new study shows that in AML, every possible combination of homozygous and heterozygous mutation occurs for the two gene mutations under study.

Yet each new gene accounts for only about 1 to 2 percent of all cases.

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified a mutation in a fat - storage gene that appears to increase the risk for type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders, according to a study published online in the New England Journal of Medicine.

«Now we know which gene is at the top of the hierarchy, it opens the door to the whole machinery for making them,» says Brady, who is looking for new drugs to boost immunity.

Making a new gene, for example, used to involve months of toil and creativity.