Sentences with phrase «to transfer the gene»

In agriculture, for example, researchers transfer genes from other organisms into crops to get certain characteristics.

«These [organisms] are not getting small by transferring genes to the host,» he said.

If bred from the dog will transfer the gene defect to its entire offspring.

After arriving in their new homes, transferred genes follow a different evolutionary path than do genes that evolve within the same genome.

In the world of human experiments, scientists have only transferred genes to make sick people healthy, not healthy people better.

The dog does not develop the disease but can transfer a gene defect to approximately 50 % of its offspring.

In Axel's lab, Littman embraced a then - novel technique for transferring genes into mammalian cells to parse their functions.

By transferring the gene for melanopsin into human embryonic kidney cells, synthetic biologist Martin Fussenegger of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and colleagues made these cells light - sensitive as well.

But to some people, the very idea of transferring genes between species conjures up mad scientists running amok — and so, two centuries after Mary Shelley wrote «Frankenstein,» they talk about Frankenfood.

This concern about artificially transferring genes between kingdoms and species in a way that has never occurred naturally is now being validated by a large body of science.

One way they do so is by means of a kind of bacterial sex in which a bug carrying a resistance gene meets a susceptible mate, snags it with a narrow tube, reels the bug in, then transfers its gene.

The research team transferred genes into MGs to activate the stem cell properties of these normally dormant cells, causing them to reproduce and make other types of retinal cells.

This image shows how transferred genes activate the stem cell properties of normally dormant retinal cells.

Joshua Lederberg who recently passed away discovered this — and like many other people who studied E. coli — got the Nobel Prize for his work and this was a huge help, because you could now transfer genes from one E. coli to another and start to figure out what those genes actually did.

While previous vectors have only been able to penetrate the cochlea's inner hair cells, the first Nature Biotechnology study showed that a new synthetic vector, Anc80, safely transferred genes to the hard - to - reach outer hair cells when introduced into the cochlea (see images).

Not only did the researchers figure out how poppies carry out this missing step, he says, but they also transferred the gene to yeast and showed it works in microbes as well.

Tremblayahasn't transferred genes to its host, a defining property of organelles.

Philip John of the University of Reading explained how American researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have successfully transferred a gene into tomatoes and lettuce which manufactures a sweet - tasting compound called monellin.

It noted that no harm to humans has been found from GE crops, but concluded that transferring genes does raise the risk of surprise effects.

Genetic engineers directly transferred the gene for the toxic protein into crops to give them built - in resistance.

Years after receiving a single dose of gene therapy, patients on the hemophilia B trial continued to produce their own clotting factor from the normal transferred gene with minimal side effects.

Their first effort involves transferring a gene from jointed goatgrass, a wild relative of wheat, to confer resistance to stripe rust.

The low - cost technology could allow us to transfer the gene mutations that make some people naturally resistant to HIV into other people's immune cells, creating a potentially permanent cure for the virus.

They did it by transferring genes from maize into rice to create so - called Golden Rice; golden because it produces the same pigments that yellow vegetables do.

What his lab has been trying to understand is how Botryococcus braunii makes the liquid hydrocarbons — what genes and pathways are involved — so the genes can be manipulated to make more oil, possibly by transferring those genes into a land plant like tobacco, or maybe other algae that grow very quickly, Devarenne said.

Their research, published in January, shows that bacteriophages can rapidly accelerate the evolution of human pathogens by transferring genes from one bacterial species to another.

We assume that phages acquire resistance genes from already resistant bacteria and then transfer those genes to other bacteria,» says Hilbert.

The Hoechst team transferred the gene for PAT into the DNA of a second variety of bacteria, called «agrobacteria», which infect plants.

The team's next goal was to transfer the genes for making gas vesicles from the water - dwelling bacteria into a different type of bacteria — Escherichia coli, which is commonly used in microbial therapeutics, such as probiotics.

Now instead they transfer genes from the soybean plant into the yeast, grow the yeast, and then isolate the heme protein from the resulting broth.

Then they can use classical plant breeding or genetic engineering to transfer those genes into desired cultivars.

During my time, more tools became available for plant breeders to transfer genes of interest and improve selection efficiency.

The scientists spent close to a decade tackling the difficult techniques required to transfer the genes and another to meet the stringent safety requirements for genetically modified organisms (GMO).

characterisation of the transferred genes and their origin, function, and stability in the rice genome;

By transferring genes that direct the production of fluorescent PER proteins into living flies, Kay and his colleagues have shown that each tissue carries an independent, photoreceptive clock.

And Baross's lab work shows that the mid-Atlantic biofilms have an astonishing capacity for transferring genes.

GENE therapy should become a more exact science thanks to the discovery that it is possible to predict where a transferred gene is likely to be inserted into the recipient's DNA.

He suggests that nonpathogenic viruses be used to transfer genes to patients» cells, as researchers had previously observed that viruses could, at least temporarily, introduce DNA into bacterial and mammalian cells.

In one such approach, researchers surgically remove brain cells, use viruses to transfer genes to the cells, and then graft them back into the animal's brain tissue.

«The big prizes — and there are going to be some very big prizes — are going to come from transferring genes and knowledge between species,» says Gale.

«Once we understand that, maybe we can manipulate the alga to make more oil or specific types of oil or maybe we can transfer those genes into other photosynthetic organisms to have them make the oil instead of the alga,» said Devarenne, whose lab in 2016 announced the discovery of the enzyme used by the algae to produce hydrocarbons.

Guengerich and his colleagues are planning to transfer the gene for the enzyme into roses and then expose the plants to a chemical that would activate the blueing process.

Concerns have been raised about the safety of gene therapy in the past, not least about links between the viruses used to transfer the genes and disease.

His team's approach is based on gene therapy, where a «tame» virus is harnessed to transfer a gene into target cells in the recipient.

Transfer these genes into crop plants, for instance, and you are a step closer to producing insecticidal crops — «no - spray» cotton, potato and corn fit for Utopian farms of the 21st century.

The first step in their process was to transfer the genes of the artemisinic acid pathway's core set of enzymes into the chloroplast genome of tobacco plants, generating what are known as transplastomic plants.

So far, Trewavas's team has transferred the gene into tobacco, potato and Thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana).

It produced disappointingly low yields, but scientists were able to transfer the gene into more bountiful varieties.

The new method circumvents the problem of not being able to culture many of these bacteria in the lab by transferring genes from these bacteria into another bacterial species that is easier to work with.