Sentences with phrase «same resistance gene»

And both bacteria displayed the very same resistance gene — most likely it had been transferred to them from bacteria living in the gastrointestinal tract.

Not exact matches

More than three fourths of all current antibiotics used to treat human infections are produced by Actinobacteria, which at the same time carry antibiotic resistance genes.

These instances «point to a future in which direct sequencing of clinical samples allows same - day diagnosis, antibiotic - resistance gene profiling and virulence gene detection,» Walker and Beatson wrote.

The other glyphosate - resistance mechanism involves the same gene.

In a second article appearing in the same journal, a team of geneticists studying the tobacco budworm moth discovered a recessive gene (BtR - 4) that provides resistance to Bt toxin.

This analysis, done on separate samples from the same patient, revealed that many of the affected genes confer advantages to cancer cells by, for example, enhancing cell migration or resistance to chemotherapy.

Collected in Denmark — where antibiotics were banned in agriculture from the 1990s for non-therapeutic use — the soil archives provide an «antibiotic resistance timeline» that reflects resistant genes found in the environment and the evolution of the same types of antibiotic resistance in medicine.

He analyzed genes in 36 strains of staph to determine their evolutionary relationships and showed that many had picked up the same virulence and resistance genes independently.

However, if there was no insecticide in the water, the same mechanisms ensured that the populations quickly lost their resistance gene again without enemy species.

Others were similar to existing resistance genes, but not precisely the same.

New research in Physiological Reports shows that although both resistance and endurance exercises activate the PGC - 1α gene, the adaptation processes stimulated are not the same and depend on the type of exercise.

He said that by collaborating with Indian scientists, «we discovered that the same cadherin gene is associated with the resistance in India, but the mutations are different and much more numerous than the ones we found in lab - selected pink bollworm from Arizona.»

«We did the same experiments with one drug that is known to inhibit conjugation and another that encourages resistance genes to be lost,» Lopatkin said.

The results suggest that evolution of resistance in independent populations of killifish converges on the same target gene.

Their analysis includes so - called jumping genes that can move around the same genome, sometimes causing damage to individual genes or enabling antibiotic resistance.

«We have found that the same genes responsible for tamoxifen resistance in our animals are also turned off in human breast cancer cells that do not respond to the drug,» she says «Because these genes were epigenetically silenced — meaning they were not irreversibly altered, just switched off — it was possible to turn them back on.

For the rice plant to effectively combat blast, scientists at IRRI are combining into the same rice type different race - specific genes and genes conferring quantitative resistance.

At the outset of the game, players are informed of how the science poses numerous medical benefits when Dr. Naomi Hunter explains: «we can remove genes which we know may lead to sickness or disease, and at the same time, splice in genes with beneficial effects such as resistance to cancer.»