Sentences with phrase «related genes into»

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The genes that have been inserted into Golden Rice are not related to any known allergens or toxins.

Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS - related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus.

Since then, Pereira - Smith's team has moved into using genetic techniques in mice to study whether and how senescence is regulated by MORF4 and related genes.

Gene expression is the process where information stored as DNA is converted (transcribed) by enzymes into related molecules called RNAs, and then into proteins that make up the body's structures and signals.

To find out, the researchers injected a cloned telomerase gene into cultured cells from retina, skin, and blood vessels, all of which are associated with degenerative, aging - related diseases.

This placed them in a new family, meaning it was beneficial to care for their own children at first (because they were more genetically related to them than they were to the rest of the family) and to care for their grandchildren later (when more of their genes made it into the family group).

When a gene is switched on, one of its strands is copied into the related chemical RNA, a process known as transcription.

No one knows but Eric Keverne, of the University of Cambridge, in England, who has done much of the work on brain - related imprinted genes, continues to wrestle with these intriguing findings, trying to fit them into the framework of intersexual warfare.

How do these imprinted genes related to brain function fit into the scheme of intersexual warfare?

As an example, the current study identified and provided insight into the function of several genes, not previously known to be involved in the taste system, related to cell motility.

By studying how these genes cause defects in fly and mouse models, we can improve our insights into the mechanisms related to human disease,» said corresponding author and Dr. Hugo J. Bellen, professor of neuroscience and molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Biologists building family trees are likely being misled into suggesting that some organisms are closely related because genes and proteins are similar due to convergence, and not because the organisms had a recent common ancestor.

Together with research into other immune - related genes in diseases such as Alzheimer's, the idea that immune processes are involved in some psychiatric phenotypes is looking ever more solid.

the team broke the virus down and inserted genes from the killer strain, one at a time, into a related but benign bird influenza virus that normally infects only the lungs of mice.

To prove that the related Arabidopsis gene was the mutant behind cellulose production, Williamson's team isolated a normal gene and cloned it into a mutant plant, which then cranked out normal amounts of cellulose, even at high temperatures.

The protocol is supposed to protect countries from unwittingly importing transgenics that could harm their environment — for example, if a gene inserted in a crop to make it resistant to herbicides were to jump into a related weed.

Additionally, natural introgression between closely related species shows that genes common in one species are often deleterious when they introgress into a sister species.

The ultimate outcome of their work might be not only the breeding of quinoa varieties with an even higher salt tolerance but also the crossbreeding of salt tolerance genes into related crop plants such as sugar beets or spinach.

Biologically, hypermethylation often silences genes that keep runaway cell growth in check, and its appearance in the DNA code of breast cancer - related genes shed into the blood may indicate that a patient's cancer growth is increasing and the disease has worsened.

Reykjavik, ICELAND, 12 October 2011 — deCODE genetics today announced that it has entered into a research collaboration with Pfizer Inc., the objective of which is to discover sequence variants associated with specific clinical phenotypes related to Systemic Lupus Erythematosis by utilizing deCODE's expertise in gene discovery.

Upregulated genes clustered into at least 7 functional groups, including immediate early genes or transcription factors, cell - cycle related genes, stress - responsive protein genes, cell signaling protein genes, cell adhesion and cell surface protein genes, genes involved in translation and protein turnover, and genes encoding metabolic proteins.

Dr. Coyle's Laboratory for Psychiatric and Molecular Neuroscience takes advantage of insights into recently identified genes that confer risk for schizophrenia and related disorders and translates them into genetic mouse models to determine how these mutations affect brain changes as well as function, neurochemistry, and behavior.

The uPA gene is related to PAI - 1, also in this list, and is argued to achieve life extension in mice through behavioral change - these mice eat less, and thus the calorie restriction response comes into play.

In the common fruit fly Drosophila and related flies, the gene bicoid determines which end of an embryo will develop into the head and which will become the tail.

Lanza suspects that the premature aging may be related to using viruses to carry the turn - back - the - calendar genes into adult cells, which is what «induces» them to act (sort of) like embryonic cells.

RND takes into account possible mutation rate differences among genomic regions by incorporating divergence to a third more distantly related species, and is expected to be inversely proportional to the amount of gene flow.

Several IFN signaling pathway — related key regulators, including STAT1, STAT2, IRF - 1, and IRF - 9, were transfected individually or in combination into STAT1 - deficient U3A cells, together with a luciferase reporter gene containing RIG - G promoter.

Where possible, value is added by focusing on sets of genes that serve related biological functions, and offering insight into the mechanism by which phenotypes arise.

Mitobridge has used NanoString PlexSet Reagents for gene expression, systematically interrogating disease - related changes in mitochondrial activity and translating unique insights into potential new treatments.

Related to this is an expectation, again woven into our genes, that the process of finding food requires that we are active.