Sentences with phrase «other genes do»

If we knew what those functions were, then maybe we'd have a better way of manipulating these cells, so I'd be keen on performing some experiments to explore what these other genes do.

What other genes does HIF activate?

Not exact matches

In other words, our genes do not define us.

In other words, I doubt that genes have anything to do with it (though in rare cases, chromosomes and hormone imbalances might).

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.

If Chad and others argue that naturalistic evolution must be dismissed because we don't know exactly what happened with gene mutation and transmission frequencies during particular periods of rapid change, then how can we accept a replacement argument in which we don't even know what happens at all?

ok typo «EVOLVED» into one a gay gene, and it is inevitable, along with all the other mayhem of this society today; with all that is going on in this world, and is why we have such suffering on earth, from disobeying the law of life from YHWH to do right by ourselves, for generations.

It is the specific arrangement of nucleotides along the chain of DNA which determines what that gene will do; it is the specific shape in three dimensions of a protein molecule which determines what sort of enzyme activity it will exhibit, and there are many other examples.

Other prophecies that jesus didn't fulfill is bringing all the jews back to israel (literally transporting them), being a great warrior leader, his lineage is definitly a problem because some claim that he was born of kings through his fathers line (josephs) but since he was emaculately conceived, then he doesn't have any of joseph's blood of genes or lineage.

That we can randomly evolve over billions of years and the only thing our senses are really made to do is to help us pass on our genes to the next generation, but we are going to trust them to reason — with no other appeal except well — they seem to work?

Our children must have received their genes from other parts of the family because we do have a lot of height on both sides, my husband and I just don't have it.

Two things that massively infuriate me that NCB people say a lot: «You can't make a baby you can't fit out (vaginally)» — like the baby doesn't also have the father's genes, and everyone's body is perfect and every part of a person's body communicates perfectly with every other part, does it??

Although she doesn't have a BRCA gene, Kati's cancer seems very similar to cancer that her maternal grandmother had and due to the way it has responded to treatment it is most likely related to other genetic factors.

Height, on the other hand, is determined by genes, and there isn't much you can do to change it.

A host of other genes, which control many other cellular processes do not show such abnormal DNA methylation after smoke exposure.

And while they don't seem to be sharing genes with each other, they are definitely getting some on the side — from other organisms.

While they don't have definite answers, besides having good genes, Kawas said, the answer is probably a combination of being resilient to Alzheimer's Disease and also that they did not develop other dementia - causing conditions, such as microscopic infarctions that occur when blood flow is blocked from certain regions of the brain and hippocampal sclerosis, which causes neuron loss.

A mushroom whose genes have been edited with molecular scissors known as CRISPR / Cas9 doesn't need to be regulated like other genetically modified crops, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said April 13 in a letter to the mushroom's creator.

The individuals with the rare gene mutations did not appear to differ from the larger population in any other ways, including in measures of blood pressure, body mass index and rates of diabetes.

Whether or not a gay gene, a set of gay genes, or some other biological mechanism is ever found, one thing is clear: The environment a child grows up in has nothing to do with what makes most gay men gay.

Other children who have the male sex chromosome but do not appear to be boys have been found to have gene mutations that temper the Y chromosome's effects.

«We've known other people who have looked at genes involved in brain size evolution, tested them out and done the same kinds of experiments we've done and come up dry.»

The other initiates a new program of oscillations by activating genes that normally do not oscillate, principally through a factor called PPAR - gamma.

Why some women get breast cancer and others do not is a mystery — genes are to blame for only about 1 in 10 cases.

On the other hand, by deciding that an EST sequence does not provide an adequate written description of a claim directed to «a gene,» the PTO has preserved the possibility for a gene itself to be patented once its full - length sequence is determined.

«Our work shows that not only do people with ASD have fewer children than others,» he said, «but in families where a child has ASD, the fact that the parents choose to have fewer children means the genes that predispose to ASD are less likely to be passed on to future generations.»

There's no way to cram the dystrophin gene into a virus to do traditional replacement gene therapy, but researchers have found that turning on other genes can compensate and bulk up muscles.

Some of the transcripts hail from noncoding DNA, the researchers report, but those that do match up with the 399 ENCODE genes overlap with each other extensively.

Although these studies did not test for vision restoration, gene therapy in the eye is already starting to be done for other disorders.

There were about 40 genomes of bacteria sequenced at that time, and what you could do was compare your gene of interest to other genomes to see if they contained something similar.

Our real hope was that our gene would look like some other known gene and give us a clue about what it did.

Three options are on the table: tweak cereals so that they form symbiotic partnerships with rhizobia as legumes do; colonise cereal roots with other types of nitrogen - fixing bacteria; or transfer the bacterial genes that make fertiliser directly into the crop plants.

There were tools to do this, but not everyone had them,» Corn adds, referring to other proteins that can cut specific genes, but cost more and require more time.

To ensure the introduced protein didn't interact with other parts of the neuron, the team used the mouse version of the gene rather than the nematode's usual invertebrate version.

When researchers like Barzilai have looked for genes that might account for the extreme longevity of the centenarians they study, they have typically found that the genes that stand out in one long - lived population do not do so in others.

But for mice in which the whole gene cluster was deleted, serotonin axons don't keep their distance from each other.

As a grad student, I once spent 2 months demonstrating that three particular amino acids on a protein in the arabinose operon (the group of genes that allows bacteria to metabolize a certain sugar) do not play a role in causing that protein to bind to other copies of itself.

Gene variants have been linked to elevated risks for disorders from Alzheimer's disease to breast cancer, and they may help explain why, for example, some smokers develop lung cancer whereas many others don't.

MicroRNAs do not encode proteins but can inhibit other genes, often several at once in a coordinated way.

While natural selection favours the accumulation of fit alleles of beneficial genes, the majority of chromosomes in many organisms are composed of «selfish DNA ``, which does not benefit its host and seems to play no other role other than ensuring its own replication.

Ressler then wanted to see whether Oprl1 could be linked to PTSD in humans, so looked at the gene's sequence in approximately 1,800 highly traumatized civilians, some of whom had PTSD and others who did not.

By 12 months of age, infants with this gene variant whose needs were consistently attended to responded to stress just as effectively as did the babies with other versions of the gene.

Because the mutant gene does not work well, the lungs develop a thick, sticky mucus that leads to breathing difficulties and lung infections, among other symptoms.

He did not suggest which specific gene or genes might be responsible, but his results indicate that genetics also accounts for 40 per cent of a person's tendency towards indirect aggression, such as breaking objects; 33 per cent of the tendency towards striking people and other forms of direct aggression; and 27 per cent of a propensity for verbal aggression.

«We don't know what the time period was between the two divergences, but we do know that half of the genes studied suggest that chimpanzees appear to be closer to humans, while the other half contradict this or are ambiguous.»

As other viruses do, phages enter susceptible cells and insert their own genes.

For example, the Antarctic icefish, a pale, near - transparent inhabitant of the frigid South Atlantic Ocean, has not only lost its ancestors» power to make oxygen - binding red hemoglobin (which it does not need in the cold oxygen - rich waters) but the two genes that code for hemoglobin have also gone extinct: one has disappeared, and the other remains as a non-coding «molecular fossil,» a useless remnant that hints at past use but still resides in the icefish DNA.

We know that Hox genes encode transcription factors that control the activity of other genes, but we found that digit - innervating motor neurons also express other genes, such as FIGN and CNEP4], and we still don't know the function of any of these other genes.

If the genome and DNA are like computer hardware, as others have described it, the epigenome is like software, running programs telling genes what to do.

Dr Bruce added: «The next stage would be to put the fly gene into the grasses, like we have done with the other RDX degrading genes.