Sentences with phrase «thousands of other genes»

The decrease in FoxP2 produces changes in the activity of thousands of other genes.

White and her colleagues set out to identify how FoxP2 affects thousands of other genes in zebra finches before and after the critical period for learning closes.

Genes become more or less active at the touch of proteins called transcription factors, each of which can influence hundreds or thousands of other genes.

Not exact matches

They then used next generation sequencing — a state - of - the - art method to rapidly measure gene expression — to sequence and quantify the thousands of genes that are expressed in hair cells, in comparison with other cells in the ear.

They can be packed with thousands of genes, along with proteins and other molecules, working together in an intricate struggle to stay alive.

Humans have thousands of immune system genes, and they interact with one another in complex ways; some, for instance, control others.

«Our team studied thousands of molecular clues in each of these samples, sifting through extensive data on the activity of genes, proteins and other molecules to identify those of most interest,» says Katrina Waters, a biologist at PNNL and a corresponding author of the study.

«Our team studied thousands of molecular clues in each of these samples, sifting through extensive data on the activity of genes, proteins, and other molecules to identify those of most interest,» said Katrina Waters, the leader of the PNNL team and a corresponding author of the paper.

Glued to our DNA are thousands of molecules that shut some genes off and allow other genes to be active.

Humans have been cooking their food for thousands of years, he says; this could have obviated many smell receptor genes, because cooking can destroy toxic substances that other primates need to keep their noses primed for.

Instead, there were thousands of places in the genome where the frequency of certain versions of genes and other DNA differed between wild and domesticated rabbits.

In one of the most elaborate feats of synthetic biology to date, a research team has engineered yeast with a medley of plant, bacterial, and rodent genes to turn sugar into thebaine, the key opiate precursor to morphine and other powerful painkilling drugs that have been harvested for thousands of years from poppy plants.

The chemicals interact with each other in a toxic soup in our bodies and may influence hundreds and possibly thousands of genes.

The basic chemistry of these and thousands of other manufactured compounds incorporated in everyday products do not appear in nature; they have entered our environment so recently that our genes, cells, brains, and bodies have not yet evolved mechanisms for coping with them.

Gene chips, for instance, can measure the expression of thousands of genes at a time, but the important question is how one gene regulates others within that incredibly complex web of relationshGene chips, for instance, can measure the expression of thousands of genes at a time, but the important question is how one gene regulates others within that incredibly complex web of relationshgene regulates others within that incredibly complex web of relationships.

Since then, however, other researchers have observed the same gene fusion in a percentage of lung, esophageal, breast, head and neck, cervical, and bladder cancers, affecting tens of thousands of cancer patients overall.

We believe that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of other genes are involved.

Using novel gene - array technology to measure the extent of gene expression in thousands of genes simultaneously, this study shows that as humans diverged from their ape ancestors in the last five million years, genes for transcription factors — which control the expression of other genes — were four times as likely to have changed their own expression patterns as the genes they regulate.

On the other hand, by means of high - throughput technologies, it is now possible to analyze thousands of genes or gene products simultaneously, resulting in a deep characterization of individual profiles.

Sometimes this entails routine evaluation of gene expression in a tissue or organism, or other times high - throughput molecular assays involving thousands of samples.

Led by UNC School of Medicine scientists, researchers from across the country used data from thousands of genetically diverse mice to show that some female mice pass on one copy of the R2d2 gene more frequently than the other copy.

study cohorts of 10,000 s - 100,000 s healthy participants from the UK population for 100s to 1000s of quantitative traits, relating these to cardiometabolic and other diseases; and identify thousands of homozygously null genes compatible with human life.

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Rare individuals are born with a mutation that allows them to survive and reproduce better than all the others so that this new gene eventually (over hundreds of thousands of years) becomes the new norm.

If carriers are eliminated, 20 thousand other genes are tossed out in true bathwater - plus - baby fashion, without for whether the dog's variants of those 20K other genes are good, bad, or indifferent.

Gene Roddenberry understood the dilemma of intelligence and showed other species who also fell though they were thousands of years further in technology and intelligence.