Sentences with phrase «of uncharacterized genes»

The findings suggest that Cell Painting may provide researchers with an inexpensive, high - throughput means to understanding the functions of uncharacterized genes — a category that currently includes more than 30 percent of the human genome.

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James Collins, a professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University who was not associated with this research, says, «Efforts in synthetic biology to create complex gene circuits are often hindered by unanticipated or uncharacterized interactions between submodules of the circuits.

They also suggest that «this strategy may facilitate control of... viruses uncharacterized at the molecular level, regardless of their genome type or variations in gene products.»

Though some of the affected genes have been identified, the physical manifestations of these alterations remain largely uncharacterized.

There is evidence that a substantial portion of the uncharacterized risk for breast cancer is genetic, and this has encouraged the search for additional breast cancer predisposition genes.

Through systematic annotation of the resulting movies, we developed a phenotypic profiling system, which shows high correlation with cellular processes and biochemical pathways, thus enabling us to predict new functions for previously uncharacterized genes.

This observation suggests that the bulk of genes involved in Nasonia immune response remain uncharacterized, with the current study being the first identification of additional candidate genes for immunity based on functional response to infection.

University of Michigan researchers have discovered a new cause of congenital myopathy: a mutation in a previously uncharacterized gene, according...

In some cases these seem to represent novel, previously uncharacterized antimicrobial peptides, but many more of these immune - inducible genes are difficult to characterize in the absence of detailed functional studies.