Sentences with phrase «potentially powerful technique»

If confirmed by other researchers, the planet would not just be an astronomical novelty; Its detection, reported on the e-print server at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (see astro - ph / 9908038), would also be a triumph for a new and potentially powerful technique for finding planets around other stars.

Not exact matches

Thanks to powerful gene - sequencing techniques developed in the past two decades during the race to decode the human genome, researchers are beginning to reconstruct what our ancestors» microbiomes looked like, potentially going back thousands of years.

But scientists at the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have taken a potentially more powerful approach: an advanced stem - cell technique that creates a human model of degenerative disease in a dish.

Both CRISPR and MRT are very powerful techniques that can alter a person's DNA, and potentially the DNA of their children, which makes them both promising and scary.