Sentences with phrase «pinpoint new genes»

To pinpoint the new genes, the two groups conducted studies looking for differences between the DNA of people who have Alzheimer's disease and those who do not.

They have also used state - of - the - art information about brain development to accurately pinpoint new genes and biological pathways implicated in this disorder.

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On the contrary, he finds it useful to ponder an array of reductionist attempts to explain the existence of religion, from that which seeks to pinpoint the area of the human brain or the specific genes connected to religiosity to that which sees religion as a malfunction of the human mind or a vestigial remnant from a primitive stage of human development suitable only for whimpering, immature dullards (a point of view championed by the new atheists).

A consortium of six nations is diving into a massive new genomics project to pinpoint the genes behind common diseases.

«By understanding the gene networks that get disrupted in CAVD, we can pinpoint what we need to fix and find new therapeutics to correct the disease process,» says first author Christina Theodoris, an MD / PhD student at the Gladstone Institutes and UCSF.

According to a new study recently published in the online edition of the journal Cancer Research, scientists pinpointed a novel interaction between the genes AEG - 1 and Akt2 that regulates the malignant characteristics of GBM.

They say the new technique, which can ferry biological materials to cells with pinpoint accuracy, overcomes many of the existing barriers to effective gene modification.

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A new Tel Aviv University study pinpoints the inverse correlation between a known oncogene — a gene that promotes the development of cancer — and the expression of an oncosuppressor microRNA as the reason for extended pancreatic cancer survival.

Geneticist Arleen D. Auerbach of Rockefeller University, New York, and her colleagues have pinpointed mutations in a gene that appear to trigger the disease.

Researchers have pinpointed a surprisingly common gene that may cause infertility, offering new avenues for treatment.

Researchers have used a new gene - hunting technique to pinpoint a novel genetic variant that raises some people's odds of having a heart attack.

The finding, reported in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine, may help doctors pinpoint what goes wrong even in patients without the defective gene.

Rao and her team hope that pinpointing the importance of this trafficking mechanism in autism spectrum disorders may lead to the development of new drugs for autism that alter endosomal pH. As the use of genomic data becomes increasingly commonplace in the future, the step-wise strategy devised by her team can be used to screen gene variants and identify at - risk patients, she says.

Once scientists pinpoint the genes necessary for virus transmission and survival in the whitefly genome, they can develop new varieties of crops that will produce RNA molecules that block the expression of those necessary genes, killing the whitefly or preventing it from spreading the virus.

A team of researchers that helped pioneer new gene - based therapies for muscular dystrophy has now pinpointed a genetic defect that leads to heart damage in some of the most severe forms of muscular...

A team of researchers that helped pioneer new gene - based therapies for muscular dystrophy has now pinpointed a genetic defect that leads to heart damage in some of the most severe forms of muscular dystrophy.

Drawing from gene therapy, bioengineering and immunotherapy, Stephan is pinpointing the best tools in each discipline and finding new ways to combine them.