Sentences with phrase «see brain genes»

Other genes influence brain development in even stranger ways (see Brain Genes (above).

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On the contrary, he finds it useful to ponder an array of reductionist attempts to explain the existence of religion, from that which seeks to pinpoint the area of the human brain or the specific genes connected to religiosity to that which sees religion as a malfunction of the human mind or a vestigial remnant from a primitive stage of human development suitable only for whimpering, immature dullards (a point of view championed by the new atheists).

The study found mutations in 607 genes in brain tissue from patients who died from SUDEP that were not seen in the tissue from the living people.

For example, mice have been given an extra color vision gene in the lab, and it has been shown that the protein manufactured by that gene expands the scope of their vision by enhancing their ability to see longer - wavelength light without any other changes in the brain.

The center is now planning a study to look at genes involved in sensitization in the brain, to see if they are activated in chemically sensitive individuals.

«I was expecting to find that a few genes would be evolving rapidly, while probably the overall distribution would be changing at about the same rate among all the primates, but instead we saw that the brain's gene evolution in the human lineage has actually slowed down,» Wu says.

To test this hypothesis, an international team led by evolutionary biologist Philipp Khaitovich of the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences in China and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, set out to see how many brain - related genes implicated in schizophrenia underwent positive natural selection since humans and chimpanzees diverged from a common ancestor between 5 million and 7 million years ago.

In future experiments, Lahn will insert the human ASPM gene into mice to see what affect it has on brain development.

The significance of the new model, according to Grange, is that «it enables us to now have a biological understanding of the patterns, the co-expression profiles, seen in the Allen Gene Expression Atlas of the Mouse Brain.»

«Additional studies are needed to see if these nanoparticles could also effectively deliver other antitumor genes for the treatment of brain tumors as well as systemic cancers.»

2015 will see the start of the first human clinical trial of a gene silencing or huntingtin - lowering drug, which specifically aims to reduce production of mutant huntingtin in the brains of HD patients.

In these images of rat brains, differences in gene expression of genes for fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2, top set) and dopamine 2 receptor (D2, bottom sett) can be seen in rats of two breeds before (left) and after (right) cocaine exposure.

Gregory Foltz of Swedish Medical Center in Seattle saw that BEX1 was turned off in the brains of his tumor patients, and using the Brain Atlas, he confirmed that the gene is usually active in healthy brains, as reported in Cancer Research in 2006.

«One could imagine, say, if you introduced genes involved with brain growth during development, that you might actually see a bigger brain or a differently structured brain,» he explains.

The next step, he says, is to investigate how embryonic mouse brains with induced folds develop as they mature past the fetal stages of development and to look across species to see if the gene has similar effects in other mammals.

To see what genes might be involved in this increased aggression, the team used microarrays to look for differences in gene expression in fly brains.

Last year, University of Chicago geneticist Bruce Lahn reported that he had uncovered genes that are still evolving in humans, and he suggested that they confer a brain - related boost (see main text).

The same effect was seen in a mouse model of human brain cancer containing this gene fusion.

Walsh and colleagues found that knocking out this gene disturbs the centriole's organization and function, suggesting an underlying biochemical mechanism for the brain deficits seen in the ferrets.

«It was exciting to see that half of the domestication signals in the genome point to genes that have to do with brain development and function», says professor Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, senior author and director of SciLifeLab Uppsala, and scientific director of vertebrate genome biology at the Broad Institute.

To see how the two gene versions affect the living human brain, the NIMH researchers scanned 24 healthy young adults twice using PET (positron emission tomography), which uses radioactive tracers to visualize brain function.

These include metabolic genes that provide the fuel for a brain, seeing as nervous tissue requires a lot more energy than other cells.»

We can see and measure resilience in terms of how kids» brains, immune systems, and genes all respond to stressful experiences.

Also see Claudia Liebl et al, Gene expression profiling following maternal deprivation: involvement of the brain renin - angiotensin system, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience., May 2009, Volume 2, Article 1