Sentences with phrase «says geneticist»

A new E.U. animal health law, expected next year, could help, says geneticist Matthew Fisher of Imperial College London, who studies wildlife diseases.

That being said, «People who look identical almost certainly share more DNA than two random strangers who don't look alike,» says geneticist Arthur Beaudet, M.D., a professor in the molecular and human genetics department at the Baylor College of Medicine.

«This is terrible news,» says geneticist Matthew Fisher of Imperial College London, who studies the fungus but was not involved in the new research.

Internet access «has definitely gotten worse,» says a geneticist who splits his time between institutions in China and overseas.

«At last we are on the brink of fulfilling the promises that gene therapy made two decades ago,» says geneticist Fabio Candotti of the National Institutes of Health.

Because these drugs act on the neuromuscular systems of both humans and worms, the finding also hints at a direct link between the neuromuscular system and the aging process, says geneticist Catherine Wolkow of the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, Maryland.

Natural redheads have a higher pain threshold than others, says geneticist Jeffrey Mogil of McGill University's pain laboratory.

The new study «is exciting, but one has to be cautious» about whether such a drug will work, says geneticist Stephen Rich of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

«The work is telling us that these [melanocyte] stem cells don't have an infinite capacity for self - renewal,» says geneticist Ian Jackson of the Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, U.K..

«People have always asked us, «Could you unpool»» once the DNA has been mixed, says geneticist David Craig of the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, Arizona.

This suggests that the Y chromosome has undergone «extraordinary» remodeling in both species in the 6 million years or so since they split from a common ancestor, says geneticist David Page, director of the Whitehead Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

«Just when we thought we were getting the sense that we had a pretty good picture of what our genome is like and how it evolved, we get tossed this curve ball,» says geneticist Huntington Willard of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

«This is really a landmark study of skin color diversity,» says geneticist Greg Barsh of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama.

The bacteria are «the cockroach of the bacterial world,» says geneticist Maynard Olson at the University of Washington, Seattle, because they can thrive in so many environments.

Pedigree remains the major predictor of a horse's sale price, says geneticist Matthew Binns, of Midway, Ky. — based The Genetic Edge and former professor of genetics at the University of London's Royal Veterinary College.

Right now, researchers must haplotype by analyzing genetic material from large families, or in their absence track gene frequencies in lots of individuals, a statistical process that is «prone to error,» says geneticist Andrew Collins of Southampton University in the United Kingdom.

«You can count on the fingers of one hand» the number of researchers with topflight training in both fields, says geneticist David Botstein of Stanford University in California, a co-chair of the advisory panel.

Still, «this is the first clear identification» of a gene «with direct relevance for language ability,» says geneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

The study sheds «unprecedented light» on the complex mechanisms behind preeclampsia, says geneticist Aernout Luttun of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.

These issues need immediate attention, says geneticist Daniel Wattendorf at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia.

«The old textbook description says that once maleness is determined by a few Y chromosome genes and you have gonads, all other sex differences stem from there,» says geneticist Andrew Clark of Cornell University, who was not involved in either study.

«We are trying to get this issue out there before anything has happened,» says geneticist Martin Bobrow of the University of Cambridge, who chaired the academy's working group.

«I'm kind of a conservative guy, and at first my reaction [to HGP - write] was not very enthusiastic,» says geneticist Jef Boeke of New York University's Langone Medical Center in New York City, another Sc2.0 collaborator who eventually helped organize the Harvard meeting and is the lead author on the new paper.

But these crops tend to have low yields and poor grain quality, says geneticist Pamela Ronald of the University of California, Davis, and breeding these plants without knowing what genes to extract is time consuming and inefficient.

No one gene can settle the matter, says geneticist Rosalind Harding of the University of Oxford.

Showing that the LCA2 gene therapy treatment works best in children is «a big step» for inherited blindness, says geneticist Frans Cremers of Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands, who wrote an accompanying commentary in The Lancet.

Put the two maps on top of each other and you get a coherent pattern,» says geneticist Anders Götherström of Uppsala University in Sweden.

The ability to make things happen in corporate biotech was «a profound eye - opener for me,» says geneticist Kenneth Carter, co-founder and CEO of Avalon Pharmaceuticals, a start - up in Germantown, Maryland.

The discovery «provides the first clear genetic link between metabolism and the rate of aging,» says geneticist Tomas Prolla at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

If four early humans including the hobbit were alive about 40,000 years ago, «the amount of [human] biodiversity... was pretty remarkable,» says geneticist Sarah Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania.

When the calf struggled to his feet on April 1 and bellowed, «we all cheered like proud parents,» says geneticist Robert Lanza.

The IOM report «had an unbelievable effect,» because it validated patients» experiences — «it told them that they weren't crazy,» says geneticist Ronald Davis, who directs the Genome Technology Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and was one of the report's 15 authors.

The study is the first time scientists have been able to move from genetic studies to a biological insight into schizophrenia risk, says geneticist David Goldstein of Columbia University.

Many blue - chip researchers received «tiny» awards, whereas the success rates and award levels for both female and younger researchers were significantly lower than for male, more elderly counterparts, says geneticist Janet Rossant of The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto in Canada, and a former member of CIHR's governing council.

«This is a very exciting paper,» says geneticist David Reich at Harvard University.

Because of small differences among the subspecies, researchers expected that a few of the new strains wouldn't make it, says geneticist Fernando Pardo - Manuel de Villena, also at UNC Chapel Hill.

«No one had suspected such a population was out there,» says geneticist Matthias Meyer, who worked on the specimen.

But the biggest payoffs may be ones that no one foresees, says geneticist George Church at Harvard University.

«There's no guarantee that they'll survive this time,» says geneticist Webb Miller of Pennsylvania State University, an author of the study published July 23 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Science has contributed tremendously to the progress in medicine but also to other aspects of society over the last 100 years or so, and to say that the world as it once was is a place we would want to go back to may be true for people in very privileged positions, but certainly not for most of us,» says geneticist Martin Bobrow of the University of Cambridge.

Hunt - crazy humans weren't the main cause, says geneticist Alan Cooper of the University of Adelaide in Australia.

«The advantage of synthetic DNA is that it allows even more radical changes than an engineered genome,» says geneticist George Church of Harvard Medical School.

As the process goes forward, scientists are likely to make some noise, says geneticist Kai Simons, a director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, and a longtime proponent of the ERC.

To please regulators that would ultimately greenlight clinical trials, Moderna will have to show its drug is still safe at a dose 10 times higher than what's needed to treat the disease — something the new paper doesn't demonstrate, says geneticist Michael Heartlein, chief technical officer at the competing mRNA company Translate Bio in Cambridge.

«That's astonishing,» says geneticist Sekar Kathiresan, director of preventive cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and senior author of The Lancet study.

The major concern is that current gene drives «are probably too powerful for us to seriously consider deploying in conservation,» says geneticist Neil Gemmell of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.

«This is a good first step,» says geneticist Inder Verma of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California.

A proposed law effectively allowing US employers to require workers to take DNA tests and hand over the results is misguided, says geneticist Martina Cornel

The data are «very compelling that Neandertals bring back some of the lost ancestral variance,» of modern humans, said geneticist Mait Metspalu of the Estonian Biocentre in Tartu, who heard the talks.

«I am ecstatic,» said geneticist Stephen Johnson of Washington University in St. Louis.