Sentences with phrase «photopigment gene»
In the new experiment, vision scientist Gerald Jacobs at the University of California, Santa Barbara, teamed up with geneticist Jeremy Nathans at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland, and other colleagues to add a human photopigment gene to mice.
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Mice given a human photopigment gene have better color discrimination than do their peers.
Not exact matches
To find out, the biologists developed a way to incorporate the gene for the human L - type photopigment into a small virus known as adeno - associated virus.
A few years ago scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine inserted the gene for the human L - type photopigment into mice.
About 8 percent of men, but fewer than 1 percent of women, have impoverished color vision, typically because they lack the gene for either the L - or the M - type photopigment.