Sentences with phrase «particular genes in the body»

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Individual body odor is influenced by genes, and by one group in particular: the genes that determine which proteins combine to form your unique major histocompatibility complex (MHC).

Genes may incline the body to store the energy from ingested food in a particular way, but reducing food intake might overcome that without any need for sophisticated therapy.

In particular they observed for the first time a transient pulse of gene expression that precedes the segmentation of the human embryo into discrete parts that will become the head, trunk and limbs of the body.

If you are a biomedical researcher and you want to tweak genes in a particular part of the body in an experimental animal, viral vectors are the way to go.

The tool, in particular, could be ideal for both these diseases, scientists think, because each is caused by mutations in a single gene that makes hemoglobin, the protein in the red blood cells that transports oxygen throughout the body.

Since the discovery was made by a group of 19th century German scientists, we have also learnt that the nature of a particular body tissue is determined by its constituent cells, which are, in turn, determined by which genes are active in their DNA.

«Dark chocolate, a high source of polyphenols, and flavanols in particular, has lately received attention for its possible role in modulating obesity because of its potential effect on fat and carbohydrate metabolism, as well as on satiety... The research undertaken to date has shown promising results, with the possible implication of cocoa / dark chocolate in the modulation of obesity and body weight through several mechanisms including decreasing the expression of genes involved in fatty acid synthesis, reducing the digestion and absorption of fats and carbohydrates and increasing satiety.»

We've learned how to adjust chemicals that are in the body and made in the body, but what's been missing are the enzymes, the genetically expressed enzymes that might be performing wrong because these genes might be misbehaving and giving you too much or too little of a particular enzyme.

The longer story of humans and predators, though, is embedded in our bodies, in our genes and their products, in particular in a network of ancient cells in our brains called the amygdala.