Sentences with phrase «reports on genes»

DNA research: an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes.

Farkas et al. [29] and Ivanov et al. [30] reported on gene expression profiling in purified populations of rat retinal ganglion cells.

Almost exactly a year ago, we reported on a gene therapy for haemophilia that was in development by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (and subsequently the CHOP spinout Spark Therapeutics).

3 Annual Data Report on Gene and Cellular Therapies and the Regenerative Medicine Sector.

This blawg keeps tabs on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, devours and analyzes draft reports on gene patents, and speculates on what the Obama administration will mean to patent law.

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Spark Therapeutics» stock soared 20 % in Wednesday trading on the heels of its second quarter 2017 earnings report and some (very) early data on the gene therapy - focused firm's treatment for the blood disorder hemophilia A.

The company will now be able to sell health risk reports on three variants found on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are linked with a higher risk of breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer.

The FDA's inspection report «is based on raw observations and in some cases lack proper context,» Gene Grabowski, an outside spokesman for Rose Acre Farms, said in an email.

The biopharma world went into a bit of a frenzy on Tuesday as Nature reported that a team of Chinese scientists had become the first in the world to launch human trials of the groundbreaking CRISPR gene - editing technology.

And on Wednesday, in a major milestone for this burgeoning and potentially world - changing industry, the Dutch startup UniQure, developer of the Western world's first approved gene therapy, raised $ 82 million in its initial public offering, Reuters reports.

Keith Fargo, the Alzheimer's Association director of scientific programs and outreach, told Business Insider in 2017 that the Alzheimer's report, which would tell me whether I had a mutation on my APOE gene, was more useful in the context of research than it was for predicting who might get the disease.

After reporting second - quarter results that contained upbeat clinical news, Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE), a clinical - stage company focused on gene therapy, rose 18 % as of 12:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday.

The 150 - page report, released by state Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott on the one - year anniversary of the escape, goes into the detailed plannings of Matt and Sweat, including their efforts to recruit prison employees like seamstress Joyce Mitchell and corrections officer Gene Palmer.

The Times Union reports that the officer, Gene Palmer, has been placed on administrative leave as investigators look into whether the officer might have been duped into providing the tools or knowingly assisted the convicts.

Her work focuses on topics ranging from neuroscience to paleoanthropology, and follow - up stories on a gene - editing tool, NgAgo, she co-authored with colleagues recently won China's Annual Investigative Reporting Award in 2017.

The Leopoldina, Germany's national academy of sciences, has published a report strongly recommending that preimplantation genetic diagnosis of early embryos be allowed by law when couples know they carry genes that could cause a serious incurable disease if passed on to their children.

Variants of one gene had a major effect on rapid changes in beak size after a drought, researchers report in the April 22 Science.

He lamented to a graduate student that he had never heard from Prasher; then a search on a computer database turned up a recent paper by Prasher reporting the cloning of the synthetic GFP gene.

A study published June 1 by Nature Communications reports scientists identify a new gene essential to this process, shedding new light on possible new therapeutic strategies.

«This gene has been on the agenda for human sex development, but it's quite important that a case has now been reported.»

A report in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes a new method to insert genes into a mosquito that get passed on to its offspring.

Based on their results, Gigi Ebenezer, M.B.B.S., M.D., assistant professor of neurology and the first author on the study, reported that protein clumps were detected in 70 percent of cases and 20 percent of patients who carried disease - causing genes but hadn't yet developed symptoms.

Individuals with one altered gene had longer telomeres, the caps on the ends of chromosomes that wear away as we get older, and appeared to be protected against diabetes, the researchers report.

The process, reported in Human Reproduction, utilizes DNA fingerprinting (an assessment of active genes in a given cell) to boost the success rate of IVF and lower the chances of risky multiple births by identifying which of several five - day - old embryos are most likely to result in pregnancy The new method, which will replace unproved alternatives such as choosing embryos based on their shape, is likely to up the success of women becoming pregnant and lower their chances of having multiple births.

That report highlighted the UN Convention on Biodiversity as a potential tool with which to regulate gene drives, including how, when and even whether they are deployed.

Instead, extra genes picked up by some pathogens can cause different strains to have wildly different effects on the immune system, even in the same person, researchers report January 11 in PLOS Pathogens.

In November 1990, Discover first reported on efforts by an Australian company called Florigene (then Calgene) to turn roses blue by inserting a pigment - carrying gene from a bacterium.

The findings reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 8 add to evidence showing just how common and abundant those resistance genes really are in natural environments.

But help may be on the way: Scientists report in next month's issue of Nature Medicine that rats unable to digest lactose, a sugar in dairy foods, are cured by a pill that stitches new genes into the cells of the gut.

In a report that appears online in the journal Nature ¸ Dr. Arthur Beaudet, professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and a clinical geneticist at Texas Children's Hospital, and colleagues answer the question: «Can we turn on the activity of the paternal gene?»

All these differences, suggest biologists Michael Krieger and Kenneth Ross of the University of Georgia, Athens, depend on which version of a gene known as Gp - 9 ants possess, the researchers report in Science online 15 November.

«As a result of the previous study, we reported that SUMO is probably important for controlling expression of active genes because we found it on every gene we looked at, but only when they were turned on,» notes Rosonina.

Prof Robin Lovell Badge, Crick Institute, on the science: «The experiments reported by Junjiu Huang and colleagues (Liang et al) in the journal Protein Cell on gene editing in abnormally fertilised human embryos are, I expect, the first of several that we will see this year.

We report here 13 mutations in the fused in sarcoma / translated in liposarcoma (FUS / TLS) gene on chromosome 16 that were specific for familial ALS.

«This report helps shed light on what can go wrong in individuals with genes that make one susceptible to autoimmune disease.

Ornish, who has built a reputation on advocating healthy living, and U.C.S.F. colleagues report in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA that they found the activity of more than 500 genes in the normal tissue of 30 men with low - risk prostate cancer changed after the patients began exercising regularly and eating diets heavy in fruit, veggies and whole grain (supplemented with soy, fish oil, the mineral selenium and vitamins C and E) and low in red meat and fats.

They found that the more efficient a mutant was at turning on genes, the more time it spent flipped into the active shape, they report in the 23 March issue of Science.

This caused two key genes normally activated solely on the left side of the body to be expressed on the right side, the team reports in the 4 July issue of Nature.

Clare Wilson reports research on the relationship between genes for proteins that «carry bad cholesterol» and longevity (6 September, p...

In four tumors, the vector mapped to a section of chromosome 12 and turned on several genes implicated in cancer, the team reports tomorrow in Science.

In the current study, the researchers report that NOTCH1 acts like a sensor on the endothelial cells — the cells that line the valve and vessels — detecting blood flow outside of the cell and transmitting information to a network of genes inside the cell.

Now they report in a study published in PLoS ONE on February 16 that this gene interacts with certain types of estrogen and testosterone found in the brain.

They tested their system on a pair of yeast transcription factors and used the data to predict which yeast genes the proteins would target, they report in this week's Science.

Phadnis and colleagues reported in Science in 2015 that the gene called Su (Kpn) encodes a checkpoint protein, one that determines whether a cell has completed certain tasks and can go on to divide.

The gene, they reported last March, turns out to be an organizer gene: it switches other genes on and off, and in so doing tells cells at the front end of the embryo to become a head.

In separate studies reported in today's issue of Nature, a team led by geneticist Juan Carlos Ispisúa Belmonte at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, and another led by geneticist Cliff Tabin at Harvard Medical School found a very similar gene in chicks, named Radical fringe (R - fng), that is active on one side of a budding chick wing.

Its report, Gene Drives on the Horizon: Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty and Aligning Research with Public Values, stresses that although gene drive offers great promise for agriculture, conservation, and public health, neither the science nor the current regulatory system is adequate to address the risks and requirements of gene drive — altered organiGene Drives on the Horizon: Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty and Aligning Research with Public Values, stresses that although gene drive offers great promise for agriculture, conservation, and public health, neither the science nor the current regulatory system is adequate to address the risks and requirements of gene drive — altered organigene drive offers great promise for agriculture, conservation, and public health, neither the science nor the current regulatory system is adequate to address the risks and requirements of gene drive — altered organigene drive — altered organisms.

Based on this report, «there is a lot of work that has to happen before we get to the point of releasing a gene drive [organism] into the environment,» says Todd Kuiken, an environmental scientist with the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.

He and colleagues reported last year in PLOS Genetics that they had tracked another speciation gene that interacts with PRDM9 to a stretch of 4 million DNA bases on the X chromosome.

Helen Wallace, the director of GeneWatch UK, a biotechnology watchdog group in Buxton, applauds the report for recognizing that gene drive technology may have harmful effects on other species.