Sentences with phrase «side effects of gene»

The two big ideas Ying Kai Chan is tackling in science — reducing the harmful side effects of gene therapy and developing better vaccines to protect against viruses — might seem wildly different from one another.

The prevailing theory of the evolution of aging holds that aging is a side effect of genes that promote growth and development of organisms that have a low likelihood of continued survival in the wild once they have reproduced.

Not exact matches

One of the side - effects of this therapy is autoimmune intestinal inflammation — analogous to the inflammation that occurs in patients with the CTLA - 4 gene mutation.

They found that people with the gene variant had the highest risk of side effects when they were given a statin called simvastatin, but this risk was much lower when they took pravastatin.

A parallel paper in the same journal by researchers from the University of Liverpool shows that this same gene also caused the peppered moth to turn black during the mid-19th century, when it evolved to find new ways to camouflage itself; a side - effect of industrial pollution at the time.

When implanted into mice, the pool of altered cells maintained their gene edits long - term, with no signs of side effects.

By studying this process, geneticists at the University of California, Irvine, are learning how to slip genes into patients without harmful side effects.

``... Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a couple of 70 years, both have undergone heart transplantation using gene - edited pigs... because the aging genes have been replaced... will extend life spans... no known side effects... plan to conduct in all mankind....»

In a March 2009 study published in Genes and Immunity, researchers at the National Center for Computational Toxicology compared the genetic signatures of 16 people who experienced smallpox vaccine side effects, including fever, rashes and enlarged lymph nodes, to 45 people who did not.

One person takes a drug and has a set of side effects, all of which could involve different genes.

By tweaking the ingredients of the zinc finger in the new study they were able to extend its effects to several months, repressing the disease gene over that period without seeing any harmful side effects.

Pharmacogenomics — the study of how genes affect responses to drugs — is becoming more important in drug - development research and clinical trials, with a view toward decreasing side effects and increasing the efficiency and efficacy of drugs in patients with the right genetic profiles.

Unfortunately, it will be more like hundreds, if not thousands of genes that play roles in different side effects.

In other words, some mice experienced a particular side effect because of genes they got from their mother.

The genes increased their egg - laying ability but with the unfortunate side effect of boosting sexual attractiveness to a level where males wouldn't leave them alone.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A new study suggests a potential new way to block one of the most common cancer - causing genes, without causing severe side effects.

According to Andreassen, the study's senior author, some think of schizophrenia as a «side effect» arising from advantageous variants in genes that are related to the development of human traits, such as cognitive and language skills, that may have increased risks for developing psychoses.

If an athlete managed to get genes to inject, he or she would need someone to inject them — a crooked coach, teammate or doctor — and because of the medical risk, monitor him or her for side effects.

Cancer metabolism, it seemed then, was a mere side effect of what happened in genes.

Years after receiving a single dose of gene therapy, patients on the hemophilia B trial continued to produce their own clotting factor from the normal transferred gene with minimal side effects.

The co-delivery of small molecular drugs with nucleic acids can improve gene transfection efficiency, reduce side - effects of these drugs, and achieve the synergistic effect of drug and gene therapy for the more effective treatment of cancer.

Size could just be a byproduct — reorganization of the brain might be the main thing, and the genes for reorganization might have had the side effect of increasing size at the same time, not being versatile enough to hold size constant while rearranging things).