Sentences with phrase «tga1 gene controls»

«If we know how genes control drug response, we can create a statistical model that shows us what will happen before using the drug,» said Wu, who is also a member of Penn State's Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.

The feeding tube of the dying embryos was not forming properly, so researchers at first speculated that the gene controlled tube development.

At least 20 different genes control lycopene production.

Lead researcher, Professor Giovanni Montana from King's College London said: «The notion that our genes control our face is self - evident.

«We're now in an age where we can pretty easily figure out what genes control those differences,» von Wettberg says, keeping the qualities that mechanized farming requires, «while adding in resistance to drought, disease, and pests.»

However, scientists» knowledge of the target genes controlled during memory formation is limited.

«The world of RNA opens new dimensions to gene control and gene expression,» Rassoulzadegan says.

The team also found that two clusters of these genes control different kinds of aggression: one directed at strangers and strange dogs, and the other directed at the owner and other dogs in the household.

These results showed that different genes control the life span of C. elegans and the length of reproductive time.

In both groups, 30 per cent of flies died, with specific defects showing that the silenced genes controlled mainly early - stage development.

University of Illinois researchers have identified candidate genes controlling the accumulation of phenolic compounds in broccoli.

When Murphy compared the genes turned off and on in oocytes and body cells of the same worm, however, she saw that two completely different sets of genes controlled oocyte and body - cell aging in C. elegans.

Andersson's group narrowed the search for the gene controlling beak size to a stretch of DNA that contains HMGA2 and three other genes.

Genetic variants of the HMGA2 gene controls beak size in the birds, evolutionary geneticist Leif Andersson and colleagues now report.

These two areas, though, are linked in more ways than just function — the same gene controls the size of each area, Salk researchers led by Dennis O'Leary have now discovered.

The UW team discovered that some codons, which they called duons, can have two meanings, one related to protein sequence, and one related to gene control.

«The fact that the genetic code can simultaneously write two kinds of information means that many DNA changes that appear to alter protein sequences may actually cause disease by disrupting gene control programs or even both mechanisms simultaneously,» said Stamatoyannopoulos.

The borrowed genes control the production of sugars carried on the surface of the cells.

Dr Nicola Nadeau, a NERC Research Fellow from the University of Sheffield added: «It's amazing that the same gene controls such a diversity of different colours and patterns in butterflies and a moth.

They then identified the putative causal mutations in genes controlling shattering (a key domestication trait among cereal crops).

Researchers say the newly found level of gene control is likely to apply to all tissues.

They further investigated the genomic basis of divergence among the cultivated populations for identifying genes controlling important traits.

The Newcastle University study suggests that an as - yet undiscovered gene controls whether a man's sperm contains more X or more Y chromosomes, which affects the sex of his children.

«Potentially reversible changes in gene control «prime» pancreatic cancer cells to spread: Epigenetic changes, not DNA mutations, drive some metastasis.»

But researchers do not know which genes control the process.

In a study described in the January 28 issue of Nature Neuroscience, the Hopkins team describes this new gene control mechanism and how it may contribute to Rett Syndrome, a nervous system disorder affecting mostly girls that causes problems with movement and communication.

Further studies showed that very similar genes controlled the process in animal and human cells, and also helped piece together how the genes work together to keep the cell's recycling centers running.

And which genes control the size of different brain regions?

These Hox genes control the activity of a multitude of other genes that are responsible for the early development of an organism.

By sequencing genomes, scientists can find out all the genes controlling inheritable traits of an organism.

For the first time, researchers have identified a long non-coding ribonucleic acid (ncRNA) that regulates genes controlling the ability of heart cells to undergo repair or regeneration.

«How a developmental gene controls feeding behavior.»

Genes control to a great extent how long an organism can live.

Some of these genes control both cardiovascular development and skeletal development, suggesting the intriguing possibility that the giraffe's stature and turbocharged cardiovascular system evolved in concert through changes in a small number of genes.

And Dr. Ludovic Orlando from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen concludes: «Perhaps even more exciting as it represents the hallmark of animal domestication, we identify genes controlling animal behavior and the response to fear.

So Hoffman is now looking for leads among genes controlling the production of molecules called growth factors, which regulate cell growth and division.

Think of these promoter regions like on - off switches for next - door genes — when a promoter region is methylated, the switch is turned off and the gene it controls does not get read and expressed.

Molecular biologist Angela Rmer - Oberdrfer of the Friedrich - Loeffler - Institut in Germany and her colleagues inserted a gene controlling expression of a key flu protein into NDV's genome.

For instance, the pro-anthocyanidins that give wild rice grains their characteristic red color are not produced in white rice due to a mutation in a gene controlling pro-anthocyanidin biosynthesis.

«We know that this gene controls thyroid hormone levels, and we know that controls spleen size,» Nielsen says.

Increasingly local adaptation to climate is being studied at the molecular level by identifying which genes control climate adaptation and how these vary between individuals.

This changes, among other things, the pattern of genes controlled by STAT5 and the cells begin to divide uncontrollably resulting in a STAT5 - dependent leukemia.

Now, researchers have discovered how the corals» pigment genes control the range of colors they can produce.

But, seriously speaking, he clarifies that genes control reproductive success and survival, so his life span prognosis is established, regardless of his decisions about having children.

Using a slew of molecular techniques, the team identified the color - stealing culprit in white grapes as a mobile fragment of DNA, called a retrotransposon, which inserts itself into the gene controlling pigment production.

This study will help us to understand how genes control biological processes like cell division and behaviour.

Some of the genes control receptors called integrins, which help cells attach to and communicate with one another, allowing formation of specialized organs and complex body plans.

Newly selected mutations in genes controlling sperm production show up in every ethnic group he and his team have studied; those genes may affect characteristics including abundance, motility, and viability.

The researchers next showed that the Smurf1 gene controls M. tuberculosis growth in human macrophages and that the Smurf1 protein was found in association with bacteria in the lungs of patients with tuberculosis infections.

Knowing the origin of each cell and which genes control their normal function are the foundations for scientists to decipher the disease process and eventually to find out how to guide the cells to self - repair or even to build up a brand new organ using amended cells from the patients.»