Sentences with phrase «tech gene sequencing»
Scientists are now using high - tech gene sequencing machines in a desperate attempt to save the Tasmanian devil from an infectious cancer called devil facial tumor disease that is threatening to wipe out the species.
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Within decades, advances in sequencing genes from ancient tissue could allow scientists to clone extinct dodo birds, saber - toothed cats, and woolly mammoths, says Jeffrey Yule, an evolutionary ecologist at Louisiana Tech University.
The sequencing data was sent to Georgia Tech, where doctoral student Maria Juliana Soto - Girón matched the sequences against known bacteria — and genes that have known effects, such as virulence and antibiotic resistance.
Junji Hirota at Tokyo Tech and team focused on discovering a long - range enhancer for a large gene cluster, finding an evolutionary conserved sequence motif in mammalian evolution, and elucidating enhancer - dependent allelic preference or exclusion mechanism for odor - detecting receptor genes.