Sentences with phrase «role genes»

Geneticists don't yet know what role the genes play in asthma, which afflicts about 16 million people in the United States.

To see what role the genes play in spore - to - spore communication, the researchers replaced the genes of one strain with those of a different group.

While most of biology and medicine focus on the key roles genes and chemicals play in the formation and control of living systems, the spatial arrangement of the components that make up those systems and the physical forces they experience are being increasingly recognized as equally important.

«You can make inferences, ideally, about what role each gene segment might have,» explains the Broad Institute's Yozwiak, «and that would be useful, but making larger leaps about its phenotype in people or any other reservoir species, that's a lot harder to do.»

The crucial role your genes play in your health + how your diet can change the way they are expressed

Studying zebrafish is a vitally important way to discover what role genes play in human health and disease.

A knockout is a technique for deleting or inactivating a gene to determine what role the gene plays by its absence.

Some researchers have looked into what role genes might have in our tendency to cheat, like last year's study on a certain variant of the dopamine gene DRD4 — and dopamine is the force behind our sexual drives, survival needs and pair - bonding behaviors.

Although we can not discount the role our genes play, she suggests that addiction can be largely credited to life experiences — significant traumas or daily stresses that alter the brain and cause us to prioritize substances offering temporary relief.

To see if they could deduce the role the gene plays in mice, a team of scientists, including Anthony Wynshaw - Boris and Nardos Lijam of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and Richard Paylor of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), also in Bethesda, created a strain of mice that had no copies of the gene.

While it did nothing to calm the maelstrom swirling around Summers, the new understanding of the chromosome revealed tantalizing clues to the role genes might play in shaping cognitive differences between the sexes.

WASHINGTON — A second cancer later in life is common for childhood cancer survivors, and scientists now have a sense of the role genes play when this happens.

Despite the role genes play in making people fat against their will, diet and exercise remain significant factors.

A better understanding of their functions related to body fat and obesity could provide a better picture of the roles these genes play in a variety of diseases.

Such findings can provide insights into the role genes play in the formation of the face and improve our understanding of the causal factors leading to certain craniofacial birth defects.»

But as Scott Strome of the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, put it, «I don't know that we can ever be certain of the role gene therapy played.»

Nor is it clear what role those genes have in perturbing the biology of the developing brain, giving rise to autism.

Researchers are constantly learning more about the role genes play in disease, and our knowledge is growing every day.

Originally founded in 1991, Myriad has spent the last twenty years investing in the education of patients and health care providers on the role genes play in hereditary breast, colon, endometrial, ovarian, pancreatic, and skin cancers.

(Inside Science)-- Researchers have long questioned the role genes and the environment play in shaping the contours of person's life.

Experts don't know what causes multiple sclerosis, but both genes and environment seem to play a role