Sentences with phrase «permanently altered gene»

Unless healthy gut flora is reestablished in early infancy, the child may suffer permanently altered gene expression and altered behavior; and may be prone to vaccine damage.

There, they had used the tactic of overexpressing BCl2, a gene that counteracts cell death, but the new approach avoids permanently altering the genes in stem cells, which may have long - term adverse effects.

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Such an epigenetic change might permanently alter which genes are active in the brains of those mice.

If the mother is nutritionally deprived or oversupplemented at those times, the expression of some genes in the child will be permanently altered.

Harmful chemicals, stress and other influences can permanently alter which genes are turned on without changing any of the genes» code.

Among other things, we plan to include certain gene therapy products that permanently alter tissue and produce a sustained therapeutic benefit as part of the products that will meet the definition of being eligible to come under the pathway enabled by RMAT.

Recent evidence has suggested that epigenetic factors may regulate genes associated with diabetic complications, but without permanently altering the underlying DNA itself, as would happen in a genetic mutation.

Unlike the case of most gene therapies that are intended to permanently alter their target cells, however, Oisín's senoablative genetic constructs will not be inserted permanently into the patient's genome: instead, its genetic payload will be expressed temporarily from the main body of the cell, following which the construct will be passively degraded by normal cellular metabolism.

In a series of stop - and - go legislation over the past few years, North America finally lifted a ban on germ - line editing — a fancy term for editing inheritable genes, permanently altering the passage of DNA from generation to generation.