Sentences with phrase «rely on these genes»

Other vocal - learning species, such as whales, bats, elephants, and seals, may also rely on the gene.

Monsanto's newest drought - tolerant product, Drought Guard, relies on a gene that creates a chaperone protein to coat a plant's RNA during stressful conditions and maintain the plant's normal cell functions, while Syngenta's hybrid contains novel drought - tolerant gene combinations.

Of course, the earliest ancestral sheep most likely relied on another gene to orchestrate the placenta during early pregnancy, Spencer adds, but because the virus produced a protein that did the job better, it might have eventually replaced the sheep version and become indispensable.

Yet there is another form of inheritance that does not rely on genes, one that allows characteristics to be passed on that are acquired during a person's lifetime...

For that, Walt's team relied on a gene that other scientists had discovered back in the 1990s.

Potential therapies targeting this synthetic lethal target will have dramatically reduced toxicity since normal cells do not rely on these genes.

95 % of the caffeine in your body gets broken down by your liver, but to do this efficiently, your liver relies on a gene called CYP1A2.

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I can assure you, NO» next generation drugs, procedures and gene therapies» rely on macro evolution.

Medicine and a host of next generation drugs, procedures, and gene therapies rely HEAVILY on evolutionary theory in their development and application.

Some mothers aren't able to breast feed for medical reasons, so «wishing a gene pool would die off» because a family has to rely on formula vs. breast milk is absurd and to dignify that comment with more time - well it would probably be inappropriate.

Conventional methods for identifying complex gene interactions rely on precise measurements of the genetic fitness of mutants.

It was therefore essential to determine whether a causal link exists between methylation and gene expression, rather than relying on a simple correlation.

Surprisingly, the second round of gene therapy further strengthened the brain's response to the initially treated eye, as well as the newly treated one, perhaps «because the two eyes act in concert, and some aspects of vision rely on binocularity,» she says.

The judges relied extensively on scientific findings to reach their much anticipated decision: Isolated genes are indeed patentable, at least for now.

The latest trend among consultants to horse buyers and breeders is to rely on algorithms involving a «speed gene» and other markers, not just x-rays and endoscopies

Another version, the CTC - iChip, rapidly isolates CTCs in a way that does not rely on preidentified tumor antigens, allowing capture of cells with gene expression patterns that may be missed by the antibodies used in the HBCTC - Chip.

Particularly influential were last year's ruling in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics Inc. that naturally occurring human genes can not be patented and the 2012 Mayo v. Prometheus decision, which invalidated a patent on a method of adjusting drug dosage using measures of blood metabolites because it relied on a «law of nature.»

Our cells rely on RNAi — deploying diminutive RNA molecules such as microRNAs and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs)-- to turn down activity of specific genes.

The system relies on admixture — a genetic principle that argues that when a family migrates across a geographic barrier into a new location, they start mating with the locals; new traits start blending into their gene pool, and this genetic diversity provides a ruler for gauging the distance from home.

According to some researchers, that essentially proves that intelligence relies on the action of a multitude of genes after all.

Pinker says that the findings are a first step in demonstrating that intelligence relies on large numbers of genes, each with a tiny effect, rather than on single genes that have moderate or large effects, but which are so rare that none has yet been identified.

Gene therapy relies on introducing into the body genetic material that can help fight a disease or correct a defect in a patient's DNA.

Both studies relied on a popular lab organism known as C. elegans, a nearly microscopic nematode that is fast growing, translucent and has a sequenced genome showing that nearly half its genes are closely related to corresponding human genes.

As when he worked on the human genome, Venter is relying on a radical technique called shotgun sequencing: He chops up vast amounts of DNA into tiny pieces and then uses sophisticated computer analyzers to piece them back together into intelligible genes and chromosomes.

The map is a key tool that geneticists rely on to find disease genes and identify the functional genetic variations at the core of human diversity.

Early in embryonic development, both mouse and human placentas rely on the same set of ancient cell - growth genes.

There are likely no death awareness genes, but there are coping mechanisms that are clearly inherited, and that seem to exist in all animals that have come to rely on social or group living systems.

«Previous techniques that have been used to investigate DNA control sequences usually rely on sorting cells one by one and measuring gene activity in each of them,» says Dr Eva Yus, lead author of the paper.

Compare that to the roughly 2 percent of the genome that is responsible for the protein - coding genes that researchers have been relying on to look for diseases and traits.

The body relies on cells to process and store energy, and changes in genes that regulate these functions can cause an imbalance that leads to excessive energy storage and weight gain.

Named after the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer it relies on, the Blue Brain Project has started modelling — in every detail — the cellular infrastructure and electrophysiological interactions within the cerebral neocortex, which represents about 80 % of the brain and is believed to house cognitive functions such as language and conscious thought.

Bacterial conjugation relies on a ring of DNA called a plasmid with the genes necessary to build the mating bridge and shoot DNA across it.

That unique ecological role for the wasps» venom could explain why these animals rely so heavily on a different mechanism for gene evolution than other venomous species.

Imaging techniques that rely on light — such as taking pictures of cells tagged with a «reporter gene» that codes for green fluorescent protein — only work in tissue samples removed from the body.

Dartmouth geneticists instead rely on the information contained in the PHPN's topology to automatically classify traits and diseases by their shared genetic mechanisms, such as common genes or pathways.

They have also lost genes required to make the protective membranes that enclose them and instead are thought to rely on membrane components from the host cell.

While the gene encoding the Y6 receptor is altered in man, Professor Herzog believes it would be unwise to ignore it because the development of anti-obesity drugs relies heavily on mouse studies.

The system relies on several genes, but one in particular seems to be a primary driver of the circadian machinery.

Both studies rely on methods that attach molecular tags to all points in the genome where a double - stranded break has occurred, before sequencing the short, flagged segments to count the cuts in various genes.

If the gene were that prevalent in the field, says entomologist Fred Gould of North Carolina State University, an entire pest population could become resistant in a year or two — an outcome that could hurt organic farmers, who rely on Bt sprays.

But organisms from humans to algae also have another clock that doesn't rely on rhythmic gene expression to keep time, but instead uses the rise and fall of the reactive oxygen molecules that are formed as natural byproducts of metabolism.

The techniques rely in principle on the increasing inventory of genes that have been identified as influencing, if to a limited degree, traits in plants.

However, more than 90 percent of the cell lines had a strong dependency on at least one of a set of 76 genes, suggesting that many cancers rely on a relatively few genes and pathways.

That's about an eighth of the time in which conventional cell culture methods, which rely on viral gene expression, can detect infection.

For instance, in the human genome we still see the remnants of the large olfactory receptor gene family that gave our evolutionary ancestors a keen sense of smell, even though humans no longer rely on them.

Instead, researchers will have to rely on other evidence that the mutations are harmful, such as lab studies of the proteins encoded by the genes.

Dr Fanni Gergely from the University of Cambridge said: «The development of a healthy human brain is an incredibly complex process that relies on stem cells and the coordinated actions of many genes.

Breeders tend to rely on large clusters of genes that are associated with specific traits such as hardiness, tree shape or flowering.

But scientists have not managed to isolate such cells from farm animals, and must rely instead on injecting genes randomly into early embryos.

That's because analyzing these genes relies on invasive methods, such as drawing a person's blood several times a day or excising a small chunk of skin.