Sentences with phrase «other known gene»

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

The researchers found 70 never - before - seen genes that, based on their resemblance to other known genes, look to be involved in making these strains virulent.

Not exact matches

DNA - testing companies determine where your genes are from by comparing you to other users who are known to have ancestors from that region.

We know a lot of what we know about gene mutation and our similarities with other animals precisely because we have been working within this paradigm for which there is a ton of evidence.

At some point, our ancestors» genes became more successful when the ones who knew how to reciprocate helping others had a tendency to survive longer.

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?

This study led to the discovery of 18 new imprinted genes, validated some known genes and resolved the disputed status of some others to provide a gold standard list of 93 imprinted genes in mouse.

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.

«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.»

A class of small molecules found in grapes, red wine, olive oil, and other foods extends the life of yeast cells by approximately 70 % and activates genes known to extend life span in laboratory animals.

One area like — now again, all of these areas, you know, have been discovered by others — is molecular - associated biology identifying genes that are important [in] social behavior.

«Professor Hummon and I have been mapping gene expressions for the right versus the left side of the colon, which we now know are different from each other due to the way the colon forms,» said Buechler.

Inherited mutations of the tumour suppressor gene CDKN2A are the strongest known risk factors for familial melanoma and mutations in this gene also increase the risk of other cancers.

This gene is known to be highly active in multiple myeloma and many other cancers, raising the possibility that strategies to shut it down could be effective against a variety of tumors.

ZNF804A also interacts with and modulates expression of other genes known to be associated with schizophrenia.

«From other studies ***** we know that epigenetic modifications of the DPP4 gene, which are associated with an increased production of the enzyme, have a negative impact on the liver metabolism already in young mice, long before fatty liver disease emerges,» says Baumeier.

In fact, the FDA has ruled that because DNA is in every living organism, crops engineered with added genes are «substantially the same» as other foods and are no different from crops genetically modified through conventional breeding techniques.

The gene known as RD26 is activated, on the other hand, when plants are challenged with drought stress, Yin said.

«For a long time now, the entire field was collecting data on MYC, LIN41, and other genes and proteins without knowing what most of it meant,» said Yamanaka, who is also director of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University, and professor at UC San Francisco.

Probably, the genes we know from other animals have a different function in sponges and were co-opted later for the function we are familiar with.»

The genes O, S, and K were known to help the cells become pluripotent, which allows them to produce any other cell type in the body.

Helicosporidium, on the other hand, lost almost nothing except those genes required for photosynthesis, which it no longer needs as a parasite.

SIX3 and a related gene, SIX2, with a similar pattern of expression in human beta cells, encode proteins known as transcription factors that control the expression of many other genes in the cell.

The researchers used «bait» proteins from over two dozen known autism genes, fishing in a pool of human DNA for other proteins that would interact with the baits.

Berninger and others have previously shown that Sox2, Ascl1, and other transcription factors — proteins that bind to specific DNA sequences to control the activity of genes — can induce the nonneuronal «support cells» known as glia to turn into neurons.

Other scientists are probing the FOXP2 gene further by studying the protein it produces, known as FOXP2.

Suspecting that the other four carried a new Ehrlichia species, the researchers sequenced the bacterial gene in their blood and compared it to a database containing the sequences of known infectious bacteria.

Scientists want to know if the virus could interact with other factors, such as mutated genes, to trigger the disease.

In most cases, the genes responsible for these processes are known as «transcription factors» — meaning that they are responsible for turning other genes on and off.

In this research, the group looked at two variants of miR - 21, a microRNA «oncomiR» known to target tumor suppressor genes and which is highly expressed in a number of cancers as well as other proliferative diseases such as psoriasis.

Histones and other proteins, when modified by this process known as acetylation, play critical roles in regulation of gene expression, typically resulting in increased gene expression.

While this phenomenon, known as horizontal gene transfer, is fairly common in bacteria and other microorganisms, this was the first compelling evidence that multicellular organisms were swapping genes.

The IL - 15R - alpha gene is expressed in tissues other than muscle, and no one knows the full consequences of turning the gene off.

«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.»

BRCA1 and 2, genes whose proteins are supposed to work as tumor suppressors and also repair DNA damage, were the first known risk factor genes for familial breast cancer as well as ovarian and other cancers.

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.

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.

Dubbed Klosneuviruses, the giant virus contains a more complete set of translation machinery genes than any other virus known to date.

He's eager to know whether this same set of genes is involved in social responsiveness of other animals.

«Now that we know how calcification happens and what the key nodes are, we know what genes to look for that might be mutated in other related forms of cardiovascular disease.»

«We want to know whether this fragmentation is resulting in reduced gene flow or inbreeding or other things that might be detrimental to the animals.

What we were surprised to find out was that the real differences we could detect in terms of when we did the swap experiments to say which yeast could outperform the other — what we learned was that the GAL1 gene, that the part [of] that, the DNA sequence is outside of the GAL1 gene, it acts as a switch to turn up or turn down GAL1 expression, that had evolved considerably from the ancestral situation; and same for the GAL3.And then what had happened was that each function had been optimized, that GAL3 had sort have been tuned to be sort of a loosely regulated kind of available anytime sensor of galactose and GAL1 had evolved to be an incredibly tightly regulated, in fact, it's the most tightly regulated gene you know of in yeast.

This doubles the number of all other genes known on the planet.

Nobody knows if adding the interleukin - 4 gene would have the same effect in a different pathogen, but «the question instantly became what would happen if somebody tried this with smallpox or other human viruses,» says Seamark.

When Kaufman, Zon and colleagues looked to see what was different about these early cancer cells, they found that crestin and the other activated genes are the same ones turned on during zebrafish embryonic development — specifically, in the stem cells that give rise to the pigment cells known as melanocytes, within a structure called the neural crest.

This program normally shuts off after embryonic development, but occasionally — for reasons not yet known — crestin and other genes in the program turn back on in certain cells.

Many of these genes are unique to flowering plants, and many are known to be important for producing the flower as well as other structures and other processes specific to flowering plants.»

There are at least six other genes in that part of the chromosome, and Forejt doesn't yet know which one is a speciation gene.

Archibald and others caution that though Loki has genes that are involved in membrane remodeling in other organisms, no one knows for sure that they perform the same function in Loki.

«Because TIA - 1 is known to suppress COX - 2 expression in other cells, we reasoned that the inactivation of the TIA - 1 gene would increase COX - 2 expression in neurons and, consequently, would increase resistance to acute seizures,» he continues.