Sentences with phrase «on the genes contained»

The genetic construction of each individual is based on the genes contained in 46 chromosomes — each of which is selected at random from either the child's father or its mother.

Not exact matches

After reporting second - quarter results that contained upbeat clinical news, Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE), a clinical - stage company focused on gene therapy, rose 18 % as of 12:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday.

Apparently broccoli contains potent nutrients which have the ability to switch «on» genes that prevent cancer development, and switch «off» other ones that help it spread.

RNAs contained in this non-coding part act as regulatory molecules and have a large impact on gene expression: where in the body and when during development or adulthood genes are expressed.

The only way to make aequorin on a commercial scale, Cormier believed, was to cultivate it inside bacteria that had been genetically engineered to contain the aequorin gene.

Scientists are a step closer to discovering what determines the sex of Australia's iconic platypus and echidna, after an international study involving researchers from the University of Adelaide and UNSW Australia unravelled new genes contained on mammalian Y chromosomes.

Both the Treponema that cause syphilis and the Borrelia that cause Lyme disease contain only a fifth of the genes they need to live on their own.

Meanwhile, they've found that although the X chromosome contains a meager 1,098 genes, 10 percent of them are turned on in the testes.

All cells contain the same DNA, but individual genes in any cell can be switched on or off by the addition or subtraction of a methyl group — a carbon atom bound to three hydrogen atoms.

Monsanto's newest drought - tolerant product, Drought Guard, relies on a gene that creates a chaperone protein to coat a plant's RNA during stressful conditions and maintain the plant's normal cell functions, while Syngenta's hybrid contains novel drought - tolerant gene combinations.

Another doubled - up region contains enhancers that turn on some genes in the cerebellum, a part of the brain that coordinates movement, speech and performs other important functions.

DNA microarrays consist of thousands of spots contained on a single 1 x 3 inch glass slide, each spot representing a different gene.

Most DNA research focuses on genes that contain encrypted messages for making proteins, the cellular workhorses essential to life.

The locus most strongly associated with severe CCD was found on chromosome 34 — a region containing three serotonin receptor genes.

The second locus significantly correlated with severe CCD was on chromosome 11, the same chromosome that contains a gene thought to increase the risk of schizophrenia in humans.

Olaparib had no effect on tumors formed by breast cancer cells containing functional BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.

At the same time, coauthor Peter Adams, from the University of Glasgow, published a previous study on the breakdown of the nuclear lamina in which he observed a peculiar protrusion, or blebbing, of the nuclear envelope into the cytoplasm, and these blebs contained DNA, nuclear lamina proteins, and chromatin (the nuclear structures in which genes reside).

With a guiding light shining at the end of the corridor which contained the ledge, the gene - therapy mice were able to find the escape platform 2.5 times faster, on average, than the untreated blind mice.

Biotinylated probes are constructed based on these sequences to chemically «capture» the intron - containing genes from the study species» genome.

Once it is clear where a gene is on the genetic map, researchers can (in theory) simply look at a physical map, which in turn directs them to a particular DNA fragment that should contain their gene.

Dr Kat Arney, science communication manager at Cancer Research UK, said: «Only a tiny fraction of our DNA contains actual genes, and we know that at least some of the bits in between — often dismissed as «junk» — play important roles in controlling how genes get switched on and off at the right time and in the right place.

Bagchi and his team focused on a region of the genome, 8q24, which contains the MYC gene and is commonly expressed in cancer.

At any given time, a troop of baboons typically contains one or two newly arrived males that have left the group where they were born in search of opportunities to reproduce and pass on their genes elsewhere.

Dartmouth geneticists instead rely on the information contained in the PHPN's topology to automatically classify traits and diseases by their shared genetic mechanisms, such as common genes or pathways.

They also say they are concerned about the antibiotic resistance marker gene that the wheat contains, and assert that the researchers «are openly releasing a synthetic version of a compound that... has had no long - term health safety tests whatsoever for human consumption, or for its impacts on non-target species.»

In the DNA code list, that critical information is contained in a short stretch of As and Cs and Gs and Ts that lie just before each gene and act as a switch that turns the gene on or off.

We do not know even the basic facts about it, such as how many genes it contains — although the guesses are converging on a figure of 38,000 — let alone what each gene is and how genes interact with one another.

The gene cluster contains an inversion, or a strand of DNA flipped end - to - end, making it impossible for recombined DNA segments to line up properly on the chromosomes and resulting in a hopeless genetic tangle.

If a mother has two different versions, or alleles, of a gene, conventional genetic testing can't work out which allele she passed on to her child, because her blood contains both.

Then for HARE5, the most active enhancer in an area of the brain called the cortex, they made minigenes containing either the chimp or human version of the enhancer linked to a «reporter» gene that caused the developing mouse embryo to turn blue wherever the enhancer turned the gene on.

Warnings should also appear on foods containing genes copied from animals considered sacred in some religions.

The human genome contains about 3 billion base pairs, but only about 2 percent of these base pairs represent protein - coding genes, meaning that whole - exome sequencing measures the genetic alterations focused on a small but very important fraction of the genome (as opposed to techniques of whole genome sequencing, which measures every nucleotide across the entire genome, regardless of whether these genes are expressed or silent).

Next came the test to see if Martensen's tumor contained the ALK mutation, which occurs when a section of DNA in the ALK gene, located on chromosome 2, breaks apart.

The justices concluded that an Indiana farmer, Vernon Hugh Bowman, violated the company's intellectual property rights when he refused to pay royalties on unlabeled soybeans he bought that contained genes patented by the company.

He later sprayed glyphosate on his crop and saw that it flourished, indicating that the anonymous seeds contained Monsanto's genes.

After preclinical studies, a gene therapy trial for SCID - X1 was initiated, based on the use of complementary DNA containing a defective γc Moloney retrovirus — derived vector and ex vivo infection of CD34 + cells.

Although Khaitovich thinks that the Neandertal genes affect the composition of fat throughout the body, the researchers focused on brain tissue first because it contains so many fatty acids — and was available from a brain tissue bank.

Computer analysis of the data, presented at the meeting on 14 October by Andrew Hicks, a scientist at deCODE, revealed that the P arm of chromosome 1 contains a putative disease gene, although the researchers have yet to identify it.

Now the scientists are going commercial, with a CD containing 10 songs based on 10 genes.

Based on the six other published mammalian genomes (human, chimpanzee, mouse, rat, dog and cow), the sequencers estimated that the feline genome contained some 20,000 genes.

But the message receiver can turn on the key genes and make the colors light up by pressing the nitrocellulose paper into an agar plate containing a chemical trigger that activates expression of the fluorescent proteins.

The application contains a request to further study two or three such genes, Niakan said, depending on how many embryos will be available.

Over the past year or so, various scientists have reported improvements on the technique, using fewer genes and safer viruses, or plasmids — chunks of DNA containing the necessary factors to activate pluripotency.

Each chromosome contains genes that are imprinted; that is, they are specifically turned off or on depending on whether they were inherited from the mother or the father.

«These response behaviors, in two separate species of animals, validate that the cells containing the synthetic gene turn on in a magnetic field,» Wheeler noted.

Since many of the genes containing «fragile» nucleosomes are controlled in a continuous manner by nutrient availability, modulation of promoter nucleosome stability may be a strategy used to coordinate growth - related transcription on a genome - wide level.

Several more projects explicitly focus on gene drive applications: A group at UC Riverside led by molecular biologist Omar Akbari will try to document the genetic diversity of the Aedes aegypti mosquito and test ways to limit or reverse gene drives in contained test environments.

It contains data on the electrical properties of about 300 cortical neurons taken from 36 patients and 3D reconstructions of 100 of those cells, plus gene expression data from 16,000 neurons from three other patients.

Epigenome refers to a «hidden» genetic code, not the one that contains information for building protein molecules, but the one that determines when those genes are turned on or off.

Because genes and plant regulatory networks are distinct from one another, closely coordinated genes can be widely separated from one another on chromosomes and still work together effectively and in many crop plants (maize for instance) much of the DNA does not contain genes.