Sentences with phrase «second key gene»

A second key gene, SLC39SA13, codes for a zinc transporter that helps nerve cells to «decide» whether or not nerve impulses are amplified of dampened.

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However, this first phase fairly rapidly was superseded by a second, in which Sewall Wright and Theodosius Dobzhansky were the two key figures, both of them insisting on the importance of thinking of populations of many genes, as well as populations of many individuals.

The second gene, TNFRSF6B, encodes a receptor related to those that bind tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-- a key chemical signal for triggering inflammation in IBD as well as in patients with other autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis.

Diamond's lab circumvented this problem by creating female mice that had a key interferon gene knocked out; in a second experiment, they treated pregnant animals with an anti-interferon antibody.

Now, synthetic biologists have solved the last piece of the poppy puzzle, identifying the gene that controls a key intermediate step between the first and second halves of the process, which had already been sorted out.

A second project, dubbed Eumorphia, will organize more than a dozen labs in nine countries to systematically screen new mouse mutants for interesting characteristics — a key step in determining the function of newly identified genes.

A new technique can determine if a chemical has the potential to activate key genes in seconds rather than the typical 24 hours or more.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a high - throughput technique that can determine if a chemical has the potential to activate key genes in seconds rather than the typical 24 hours or more.

We infer two key properties for each gene related to patterns of homology: first, the age of each gene based on the phylogenetic stratum in which each gene can be inferred to have originated; and second, the number of paralogous copies of each gene in the Nasonia genome.