Sentences with phrase «of useful genes»

The genome contains 3 to 4 times more DNA than other microbial genomes sequenced so far, and it's chock full of useful genes with relatively little useless DNA in the way.

You can do anything as long as you find the ingredients to accomplish it, and you never know what sort of useful gene you can uncover in the Monsties you hatch.

It can also result in the loss of useful gene versions without breeders realizing they have done so.

Not exact matches

Keith Fargo, the Alzheimer's Association director of scientific programs and outreach, told Business Insider in 2017 that the Alzheimer's report, which would tell me whether I had a mutation on my APOE gene, was more useful in the context of research than it was for predicting who might get the disease.

Their children didn't need to commit incest; they simply mixed with other groups of mortal humans outside Eden, who passed on the useful Neanderthal genes we inherited.

Topher shows us how easy it is to slip back into old patterns of illogic, though he will quite likely demonstrate how no longer useful traits get weeded out of the gene pool as those few like him fade into the past.

thanks Gene... I have been «through» numerous blog sites in my own journey sitting at this machine... Naked Pastor is one of 3 that have stuck because you «usually» touch something inside me that reacts... sometimes negative, sometimes positive, always useful on my journey.

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 unique advantage of genetic modification lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits into new rice varieties.

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.

Genetic modification is a useful tool to help us understand the function of genes.

Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, knew that stem cells are more useful for gene therapy than ordinary cells, because they produce multiple daughter cells with the modified genes.

But when the researchers compared the genomes of opossums and humans, they found a surprising number of similar immune - related genes, meaning it's useful for just the opposite of the expected reason: The gray short - tailed opossum is a nice model for immunology research.

These results illustrate a useful approach for studying the effect of gene expression on cardiac contractility.

... Thus, the creative and laborious work required to identify therapeutically useful genes may result in products that infringe a claim to one of the multitude of ESTs.

Genes that encode therapeutically useful proteins can be of enormous scientific and financial value because they permit large - scale production of the encoded proteins through recombinant DNA technology.

There are innumerable different viruses, but the human adenovirus 5, which normally causes the symptoms of a typical cold, has substantial advantages: Its genome can be replaced completely by an artificial one which contains only «useful» genes.

For the dozens of labs at work on the problem, coming up with useful genes, known as transgenes, is not the hard part — it's how to transfer enough copies of the transgenes into free - ranging populations.

The work, published in tomorrow's issue of Science, * holds out hope that gene therapy will be useful for limiting the severity of Parkinson's, a progressive disease that afflicts about 500,000 people in the United States alone.

The study highlights a «useful and effective technique of reducing introgression of coyote genes into red wolf populations,» says Dave Mech, a wolf biologist and senior scientist with the Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey in St. Paul, who was not involved with the research.

Galas told me, looking back: «Darwin was founded on the idea of pulling out genes and seeing if they'd be useful or therapeutic.

«These findings illustrate how resurrection plants manipulate sugar metabolism to promote desiccation tolerance and may provide candidate genes that are potentially useful for the development of stress tolerant crops.»

«Soybean genotypes carrying Rpp1b, Rpp2, Rpp3, and Rpp5a resistance genes, and cultivars Hyuuga and UG5 (carrying more than one resistance gene), were observed to be resistant against most of the African rust strains, and therefore may be useful for soybean - breeding programs in Africa and elsewhere,» Hartman says.

Gene therapy could target the production of IL - 6 in bone marrow without suppressing its useful effects elsewhere in the body.

For example, many of the genes in the new networks are related to cancer, suggesting that certain cancer treatments that target these genes might also be useful to treat ASD.

From their many sizes and colors (vibrantly demonstrated by the potatoes on offer at the Bolivian market pictured above) along with genes that resist drought, wild relatives represent a genetic storehouse of potentially useful traits, such as the genes that allowed potatoes to recover from the blight that precipitated the Irish potato famine.

«Nevertheless, this gene will be useful in combination with other STB resistance genes, and our study provides tools for rapid lab - based tracing of Stb6 in wheat breeding lines,» says Kanyuka.

In addition, says Smith, the mismatched probes should prove useful in assessing the compatibility of an organ donor and a recipient, by allowing researchers to quickly identify which version of the complicated HLA gene each person possesses.

This test may be particularly useful for patients with high grade serous ovarian cancer because the mutated cancer gene TP53 is found in more than 99 per cent of patients with this form of the disease.

Molecular geneticist Lisa Baumbach of the University of Miami says the technique should be useful in screening for inherited forms of breast cancer, for which researchers must use many probes to distinguish among multiple mutations in a gene.

The researchers used a high - throughput approach to mutate all of the genes in a virus in one experiment — a useful way to understand the future of viral evolution.

Because the precise activation of Hox genes is essential for a cell's fate, «the research should prove extremely useful in developing novel embryonic stem cell - based therapies, Mazzoni adds.

In an attempt to answer the question of whether genes that show high levels of variability across different species could also be useful in population - level evolutionary studies, scientists in Brazil, Singapore, and the United Kingdom teamed up to test the utility of numerous genes previously found to be useful in inferring relationships of cactus species.

Given how useful any insights into gene function are for understanding the genetic basis of disease, the data are «priceless,» says Kári Stephánsson, a geneticist at deCODE in Reykjavík.

It is only the handful of genes that differ, such as those defining blood group, which are useful for making maps.

The gene may be useful for diagnosing the condition or projecting the risk of disease in people who are healthy, but there isn't a lot of profit in testing people.

Similarly, carriers in the Jackson study of one copy of the genes that cause sickle - cell disease — a useful trait against malaria in Africa — appear to be more at risk for kidney disease.

Those genes could be at the root of inherited sleep disorders, Blackshaw says, and the proteins they make could prove useful as starting points for the development of new drugs to treat insomnia and even jet lag.

The art of manipulating the genes of living organisms so they will produce medically or industrially useful proteins.

Lost traits would be difficult to re-create, he says, because modern livestock lack living wild relatives — a reserve of potentially useful genes that has saved agricultural crops in the past.

The strategy of single - cut editing may be useful for treating other single - gene diseases, Dr. Olson said.

«If unfavorable alleles of neighboring genes always are carried in with the favorable alleles of the targeted genes, then that is not useful,» he added.

In this enduring popularization of evolutionary biology, Dawkins argues that our genes do not exist to perpetuate us; instead, we are useful machines that serve to perpetuate them.

«If we could somehow limit this collateral damage to cancer - causing genes without reducing the infection - fighting powers of B cells, that could be very useful,» he says.

But they could also transplant groups of interacting genes, creating more humanlike yeast that would be useful for studying new drugs or molecular circuits that go awry in diseases.

And if any of those genes prove useful, they can become a permanent part of the genome of the butterfly or moth species.

«We chose these genes because they have proven useful for classification of related groups of bats,» said Velazco.

Keasling says that his team will try to improve both of those issues by engineering similar genes into yeast, a more industrially useful microbe.

A diamond - based thermometer could be a useful tool in basic biology, Maurer says, noting that a number of biological processes, ranging from gene expression to cellular metabolism, are strongly affected by temperature.

As a prelude to introducing genes whose products would be therapeutically useful in cancer, the researchers say they have successfully introduced a harmless gene from bacteria into TILs without affecting the behaviour of the cells (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 87, p 473).