Sentences with phrase «says gene marks»
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«Today's approval marks another first in the field of gene therapy — both in how the therapy works and in expanding the use of gene therapy beyond the treatment of cancer to the treatment of vision loss — and this milestone reinforces the potential of this breakthrough approach in treating a wide - range of challenging diseases,» FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement.
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Town board members Mark Cuthbertson and Gene Cook said they support the decision to continue with printing the names of town officials on signs.
Onondaga County Sheriff Gene Conway said the beginning of school marks an exciting and dangerous time for students.
«Epigenetic marks are physical alterations to the DNA that do not change the sequence of a gene, and thus have the potential to be reversed,» said Hurd.
It was thought the gene first arose in Scandinavia, where lactose tolerance is most prevalent, because it is a way of getting vitamin D in places with little sunshine, says Mark Thomas of University College London.
All animals use the same enzyme to create the same methylation mark as a signal for gene repression, and her colleagues who study epigenetics in mice and humans are excited about the new findings, Strome said.
«The company has a real history of ingenious inventions — I think there must have been a bit of Wallace and Gromit in their genes, tempered of course with Swiss reliability,» says Mark Hill, vice-president of corporate communications, referring to the eccentric inventor and his dog created by animator Nick Park.
The research examined spinal injuries but likely has implications for treating a number of brain conditions through gene therapy targeting astrocytes, said Dr. Mark Goldberg, Chairman of Neurology & Neurotherapeutics at UT Southwestern.
«Today's approval marks another first in the field of gene therapy — both in how the therapy works and in expanding the use of gene therapy beyond the treatment of cancer to the treatment of vision loss — and this milestone reinforces the potential of this breakthrough approach in treating a wide - range of challenging diseases,» FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement.
«There's a lot more to the genome than genes,» says Mark Gerstein, a bioinformatician at Yale University.
The new scheme to chart the «history and geography of human genes» through DNA analysis of far - flung «primitive» peoples rests on the mistaken assumption that such exotics do not have a history, says Marks.
These findings mark «the first time any novel Alzheimer's gene has been identified in genomewide studies,» says Washington University geneticist Alison Goate, one of Williams's coauthors.
«We found the IFG2 gene marks the beginning of reprogramming to hematopoietic cells,» said Dr. Masatoshi Nishizawa, a hematologist in the Yoshida lab and first author of the new study.
«We observed that a large number of genes were involved in pathways related to wound healing, immunity, and metabolism, and this is consistent with the idea that the earliest stages of domestication may involve adapting to highly crowded conditions,» said Mark Christie, lead author of the study.
«The authors have done a very elegant job showing a clear connection among environmental influence, gene expression, and behavior,» says Mark Winston, an entomologist at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
That's a marked difference from smoking, the only other consumption behavior that has been linked to certain genes, says Abraham Palmer, a pharmacogeneticist at the University of Chicago in Illinois who studies how genes regulate the effects of amphetamine.
«We want to characterize each line of mice broadly with no assumptions about what the gene is or is not doing,» said IMPC Executive Director Mark Moore, Ph.D. «If you think of the function of a gene as a needle in a haystack, we're removing the haystack so you can see what the needle does.»
«Originally genetics was focused on the one percent,» said bioinformaticist Mark Gerstein of Yale University, referring to geneticists» early concentration on genes that code for proteins, which represent just a a tiny fraction of the genome's myriad parts.
As a result of today's actions, we fully expect Lord & Taylor's cash flow and return on investment to show a marked improvement,» says Gene Kahn, chairman and CEO of the May Department Stores Co., which owns Lord & Taylor.