Sentences with phrase «on genetic markers»

Based solely on genetic markers, GPS could place individuals within their country of origin 83 % of the time.

The latest round of START - UP participants was announced Monday in Buffalo, with companies that range from software developers for the legal profession and a biotech firm working on genetic markers for autism to a developer of brain injury drugs.

«Doug's research on the genetic markers expressed during pancreas development have led to a reliable way to reprogram stem cells into human beta cells,» said selection committee member Deepak Srivastava, MD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and the Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone.

They used sophisticated genetic tools to conduct comprehensive genome - wide analyses on the genetic markers of 18 Bene Israel individuals.

Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis geneticist Susan Walsh has successfully predicted eye and hair color based on genetic markers known as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and Pennsylvania State University anthropologist Mark Shriver has used SNPs to make predictive digital mugshots.

Unlike disease - risk genetics, which focuses on whether individuals» genotypes make them more susceptible to developing, say, breast cancer or Alzheimer's, pharmacogenomics concentrates exclusively on genetic markers that interact with and respond to medications.

Last spring, Wernig and Meissner relied on genetic markers to identify successfully reprogrammed cells.

Promising research on genetic markers suggests that a better understanding of our common genetic code is within reach.

The focus of the fund will be researching and disseminating information on genetic markers and other characteristics of older healthy cats to determine how these cats achieved long and healthy lives, feline pain recognition and management, emerging therapies and mobility enhancement, and the identification, presentation, and treatment of the most common causes of disease in older cats.

Hip dysplasia and Progressive Retinal Atrophy (PRA), are two such diseases for which veterinarians are working on genetic markers to determine carriers.

Genetic data and analysis is playing an increasing role in clinical trials, with companies beginning to track side effects and sometimes responses of patients based on genetic markers (pharmacogenomics).

In the second step, which is based on genetic markers, we only concentrate on the fecally positive water samples from the first step.

«Wine Explorer builds a profile based on genetic markers, and then when you get wine, you rate them, which helps it make better predictions over time,» he says.