Sentences with phrase «thinking about genes»

That's a rather different way of thinking about genes — and evolution.

«When you think about genes with a conserved function you think everything that gene does must be the same in all animals.

ENCODE's results are changing how scientists think about genes.

Along with changing how we think about genes, the Human Genome Project spawned lots of other projects.

Not exact matches

Shah's argument about «an inferior competitive landscape» makes no sense, however, although it's of a piece with other Tesla mega-bulls, such as Loup Ventures» Gene Munster, who seems to think that Tesla can basically sell 11 million cars in the US alone.

In addition to the «subtle influences» of our genes on our behavior, our environment (or surrounding cultural norms and conditions) as well as our nurturing (i.e. upbringing, whom we choose to surround ourselves with and what we think about) is what really makes us who we are.

Think about it, these single gene changes are usually what results in tumor formation, right?

So, whatever else you want to think about ho.mo $ exuality and your position on it; two truths remain; (i) human $ exuality, including ho.mo $ exuality is genetic; and (ii) there is no single «gay gene.»

Do think these folks had a clue about gene expression?

Think he needs to go back and read the origin of species... Coz in the real world natural selection would have seen the wenger football gene disappear years ago... Sadly management at arsenal financial club doesn't care about football or fans

«It's definitely something that we are thinking about,» said Gene Han, a vice president who heads Target's innovation center in San Francisco, where the startup pitch meeting was held.

Thought to have disappeared from the ancestors of modern pigs about 20 million years ago, the gene helps cells dissipate more heat and burn fat.

But, he adds, «thinking about delivering a gene to the brain poses all sorts of challenges.»

I remember looking at the report and realizing that there were all of these similar genes in all of these different animals and thinking: «Maybe a careful reading of the papers associated with the sequences most similar to mine will tell me something about my own gene.»

Steve: So you might have a gene for a particular brain receptor or, I think what you talk about in the article is not actually the structure of the receptor molecule, but the amount of receptors that you actually produce?

«When most people think about cancer genetics, they think about single key mutations that foster tumor formation — very specific things like the BRCA genes,» said Joe R. Delaney, PhD, a fellow in the Clinical Translation program at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center and lead author of the paper published February 15 in Nature Communications.

If you think evolution is just about individuals passing on their genes to offspring, get set for a radical reweaving of the web of life — and finance

What's not to like about shooting bacteria genes into your brain to have your thoughts magnetically manipulated?

Americans are a bit more positive about the impact of gene editing to reduce disease; 36 % think it will have more benefits than downsides, while 28 % think it will have more downsides than benefits.

By doing so, they thought it should be possible to deduce the physical size of the gene (the «target») and that measuring its sensitivity to radiation might reveal something about its composition.

«Given everything we thought we knew about MYC and LIN41 at the time, we couldn't comprehend how these genes were so beneficial in somatic cell reprogramming, but absolutely useless in tumor reprogramming.

«Usually we think about selfish genes at the level of natural selection and selection of the fittest,» Lampson said.

Her team is one of those in an international race to identify a gene called BRCA1, which is thought to cause about half of all cases in which the disease is inherited.

But if you have no strong feelings, or even feel somewhat relieved at the idea of never having to think about quantum mechanics or genes again, then you may want to use your degree as a general qualification.

Richard Atkinson, an obesity researcher at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, says, «If you think about all the combinations and permutations of those 130 genes, there are going to be dozens, hundreds, thousands of different kinds of obesity.»

Gene drive is so different from other technologies involving genetic modification that it requires a whole new way of thinking about how to evaluate and regulate it, says Jennifer Kuzma, a natural and social scientist at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh who helped organize a February workshop there.

I think about that scene when I hear the way many of my environmentalist friends talk about genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, an ill - fitting term that has come to stand for plants, animals and other living things whose genes have been directly manipulated in the lab using the techniques of modern biotechnology.

Named after the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer it relies on, the Blue Brain Project has started modelling — in every detail — the cellular infrastructure and electrophysiological interactions within the cerebral neocortex, which represents about 80 % of the brain and is believed to house cognitive functions such as language and conscious thought.

Although these mutations are relatively rare, their discovery, reported in the January issue of Nature Genetics, could help point the way to other genes behind inherited epilepsies, which are thought to account for about 40 % of all forms of the disease.

As a child, Zhang moved with his family from China to Des Moines, where he worked in a gene therapy lab as a high school student; the experience taught him to think about biology from an engineering point of view.

What did he think about Finnish genes?

The insight demands a fundamental revision in what we thought we knew about how genes work.

Those opposed to gene patents complain that no one without the permission of the patent holder is allowed to freely work with, or even think about using, this 20 percent.

With these findings, «we can start to think about how to target specific genes for creating therapies for thyroid cancer,» Engelhardt said.

The bioethics commission, chaired by Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, argues that physicians, researchers, and companies marketing DNA tests need to reframe how they think about all of this: While of course no one knows what will be buried in a given gene sequence, the fact that ancillary findings may be part of it should hardly be a surprise.

One way of thinking about what differentiates a breast cell from a heart cell is that each cell type expresses different subsets of genes.

For patients, this means that rather than thinking about the right drug for a certain disease, doctors will think about the right drug to treat the patient's specific gene mutation.

Donald Kohn of Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, California, who is thinking about participating, says he's optimistic that the safety issues will be solved and that gene therapy will eventually become the standard of care.

At the time, it was thought that this gene fusion was limited to a fraction of brain tumors, affecting about 300 patients in the U.S. per year.

«We want to characterize each line of mice broadly with no assumptions about what the gene is or is not doing,» said IMPC Executive Director Mark Moore, Ph.D. «If you think of the function of a gene as a needle in a haystack, we're removing the haystack so you can see what the needle does.»

This point in particular may be picked up by NGOs with regards to CRISPR and other gene editing techniques, so it would be good to think about arguments or publications which could be used as a response.

At the time, these extranuclear agents of heredity were thought of as everything from parasites, to symbionts, to genes and the labels applied to them were vague or contradictory, owing in part to the fact that very little was known about the role these factors played within an organism.

He encouraged us to spend a little bit of time thinking about how we might do that, how we might pause after finding that hot new disease gene and try to think of ways to help the patients (rather than just racing on to the next one).

Think about it this way: Your mother's genes differ from your father's.

Thinking about the abundance levels of the different genes as rates in Poisson distributions require each observation to come from a constant count depth.

So, when you see the word «environment» used when talking about the causes of schizophrenia - another way to think of it is «everything other than genes».

As more researchers identify bacterial genes with interesting functions, we can think about how to manipulate them natively for therapeutic treatments.»

Those people could get away from danger, they were expecting danger more often, and they probably ended up surviving and passing their genes on to their ancestors more readily than those who were way too laid back and didn't think about danger and got themselves into risky situations.

You'd probably think I was running an infomercial if I told you about a simple intervention that: Reverses memory loss Increases energy levels Improves sleep quality Up regulates positive genes Down regulates inflammatory genes Reduces stress in patient and caregiver Improves psychological and spiritual well being Activates significant anatomical areas of the brain Increases telomerase,

Dr. Seyfried and Dominic D'Agostino aren't making that argument either, but I think what they bring to this is a fresh perspective that in many ways if it's true, it can be more empowering for people that are dealing with cancer, and the risk of cancer, because it offers a lever for intervention and treatment above and beyond just the idea that «Oh, I have bad genes and there's not really anything I can do about it.»