Sentences with phrase «than genes for»

The insulin genes were more highly expressed in the venom gland than genes for some of the established venom toxins.

Lichtenstein found that the environment was more important than genes for almost all kinds of cancers.

This fact is rooted in a packaging problem: the gene encoding FIX is much smaller than the gene for FVIII, and better fits into a vector, usually a harmless virus, designed to deliver therapeutic genes to a patient.

Not exact matches

These new entrants would need to get a licensing agreement from Myriad for anything they discovered related to the BRCA genes, which would effectively shut down future work by anyone other than Myriad in this area.

The U.S. Patent Office granted Myriad's patent for the two genes and the assay in 1997 and more than 250,000 patients have used Myriad for BCRA1 and BCRA2 gene testing.

«My group has been chasing depression genes for more than a decade without success, so as you can imagine, we were really thrilled with the outcome,» Perlis said.

Scientists have figured out the specific gene mutation responsible for red hair — and why it's more common in beards than on heads.

In our tests, the Gene Knockout Kit gave us greater than 80 percent knock - out rates for seven targets,» shares Shondra Miller, Ph.D., Director, Center for Advanced Genome Engineering at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, on Synthego's web site.

«Those carrying the target gene variant slept, on average, for five hours, which was one hour shorter than their twins without the gene.

Keith Fargo, the Alzheimer's Association director of scientific programs and outreach, told Business Insider in 2017 that the Alzheimer's report, which would tell me whether I had a mutation on my APOE gene, was more useful in the context of research than it was for predicting who might get the disease.

better yet why not hold Medel in highest esteem as his work in genes lays the true foundation for the Modern theory of Evolution, which owes much more to gene theory than Darwin's.

Last, had I known that alcoholism is a disease worse than cancer, and that it ran through the family genes thus any baby born had a strong chance of becoming one... well, that seals the deal but, I bet the parents who also fell for religiosity, not knowing it was an enclave for pedophiles... talk about regrets from hell.

For instance, one admits that in much of evolution (probably all above the bacteria), evolutionary changes involve enormous numbers of genes, rather than a selection of one or two particular genes (although that occurs in a few instances, possibly, for instance, in industrial melanisFor instance, one admits that in much of evolution (probably all above the bacteria), evolutionary changes involve enormous numbers of genes, rather than a selection of one or two particular genes (although that occurs in a few instances, possibly, for instance, in industrial melanisfor instance, in industrial melanism).

The true testing ground for the implicate - order strategy, it seems to me, may indeed be biology rather than physics, where abstract methods are so powerful as to perhaps make it dispensable: just as the old style building - block materialist was refuted not by philosophical polemic, but by the one authority in which he trusted, i.e., by physics itself, so the nothing - but reductionist in contemporary biology will modify his views should it be possible some day to provide him with a mathematical language that fills the currently existing gap between our formal knowledge of gene structure and combinations, and our intuitive apprehension of growth and shape.

Therefore, the plants with genes for superhot chiles had more offspring than the chiles with other parents.The mutation was discovered in 2016 by Dr. Peter Cooke of the New Mexico State University Core University Research Resources Laboratory.

Guys who are rated as the most masculine — a billboard for a man's good genes — tend to have more testosterone, and men with higher testosterone levels are 43 percent more likely to get divorced than men with normal levels, 31 percent more likely to split because of marital problems and 38 percent more likely to cheat.

But for me, it's actually easier to let my boys join me as I get ready, because my boys were born without the gene that allows them to sit still for longer than 10 minutes.

«We think that the garter snake's evolved resistance to the newt's toxin can be used as a model for understanding complex adaptations that involve more than one gene,» McGlothlin said.

Cells have more than one trick up their sleeve for controlling certain genes that regulate fetal growth and development.

McCallion's strategy to make sense of all this data looks at the active genes in cells affected by a disease, groups of genes that interact with one another, their vulnerability to mutation and information from past scientific studies to filter more than a thousand gene candidates for disease risk down to just a handful within any one implicated region.

Largely because of it, more people have been tested for BRCA1 than for any other human gene.

Twelve transgenic piglets endowed with a mouse UCP1 gene were better able to maintain their body temperature than their unmodified counterparts when they were exposed to cold for a 4 - hour period, the authors report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Rather than carry out conventional bulk analysis of cells, the research group examined individual cells, screening them for the presence of two critical gene mutations common in AML, known as FLT3 and NPM1.

About 8 percent of men, but fewer than 1 percent of women, have impoverished color vision, typically because they lack the gene for either the L - or the M - type photopigment.

Active genes, i.e. those that produce a large amount of RNA, seem more likely to be retained than less active genes; and genes that are more active in males than in females also persist for longer.

For instance, people who have low cholesterol their entire lives — such as those born with a mutation in a gene called PCSK9 — suffer far fewer heart attacks than people who lower their cholesterol only later in life.

«The most exciting thing is this is really the first gene we can point at than can be used for therapy,» she says.

Indeed, CHRM2 may not be a gene «for» anything — other than the tendency to follow life's fortunes or misfortunes.

Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, knew that stem cells are more useful for gene therapy than ordinary cells, because they produce multiple daughter cells with the modified genes.

But the rapid rise of bacterial genes for drug resistance stems from more than lucky mutation, Levy adds.

It finally reveals the gene content of the two different Y chromosome systems that evolved in mammals,» says Dr Grützner, who has led research into monotreme sex chromosomes for more than 10 years.

For more than a decade, gene sequencers have been improving more rapidly than the computers required to make sense of their outputs.

This suggests that the time window for effectively treating USH1 syndrome using gene therapy may be larger than initially thought.»

If either Bocklandt or Sanders is lucky enough to spot the genes responsible for homosexuality, there will most likely be more questions raised than answered.

For example, HPV - inactive tumors were 17 times more likely to contain disrupting TP53 gene mutations than HPV - active cervical cancers, rendering unnecessary the expression of the HPV E6 oncogene.

The results show — for the first time, Briggs thinks — that the bacterial genomes change with depth: the micro-organisms at 554 metres carry more mutations in genes that code for energy - related processes like cell division and biosynthesis of amino acids than are seen in their shallower counterparts.

Base oxidation regulates gene activity In cooperation with colleagues at LMU, as well as researchers based in Berlin, Basel and Utrecht, Carell and his group have now shown, for the first time, that a standard base other than cytosine is also modified in embryonic stem cells of mice.

These genes date back to the early origin of life on the planet, and they're so essential that their text has been preserved for more than 3 billion years.

For the first time, the response of more than 10,000 genes was followed simultaneously, which identified brassinosteroids and auxins and their signalling molecules as key to the growth stimulation observed in biochar.

The American cockroach has genes that code for more than 150 scent receptors and 500 taste receptors, the most found in any insect so far.

In general, more than 70 percent of schizophrenia cases are sporadic versus familial — so many patients have variants of influential genes that have occurred in them for the first time.

Using a technique known as single - cell RNA sequencing, the team explored more than 65,000 individual cells that exist under normal or inflammatory conditions, looking for genes that were more active in one state or subpopulation versus another.

The researchers proved that this was caused by chemical «epigenetic» changes to parts of the gene that codes for Hnf4a, making it less active than it should be.

«This regenerative technology, termed AAV gene transfer, provided long - lasting benefit to the entire musculature of affected dogs that would have otherwise perished, extending a healthy lifespan for more than 4 years,» said Dr. Martin Childers, senior author of the Muscle & Nerve study and a UW Medicine researcher in Seattle.

Although a bad outcome was possible without the gene expression pattern, patients with the genetic signature were found to survive for less time than those who didn't have it, they wrote in the 9 December online edition of Nature Genetics.

«Americans worried about using gene editing, brain chip implants and synthetic blood: US adults show more concern than enthusiasm for using these to «enhance» human abilities.»

Parkinson contends that targeted gene replacement produces cells having specific genetic alterations far more effectively than the traditional technique for making transgenic animals, which entails injecting DNA into cell nuclei.

Researchers hope to use these data to pinpoint genes responsible for more than 100 poorly understood X-linked diseases.

It seems to be [as soon as we] started to be able to figure out what genes were and what certain genes did, it became natural to look for the genes associated with intelligence, but that search has proven to be much more treacherous than probably the people in the field ever imagined.

In contrast, friends tended to be less alike than expected by chance for another gene, CYP2A6, which may be associated with an open personality.