In the paper, the authors focus on several
types of gene drives, including homing - based drives, sex - linked meiotic drives, medea and underdominance gene drives.
Not exact matches
Blocking the function
of the Ras oncogenes is considered by many scientists to be the «holy grail»
of cancer therapeutics because mutations in these
genes drive the growth
of so many different
types of cancers.
Over half
of the 70
genes code for proteins that are known to regulate development and physiology
of the skeletal, cardiovascular, and nervous system — just the
type of genes predicted to be necessary for
driving the development
of the giraffe's unique characteristics.
Researchers investigating pediatric low - grade gliomas (PLGG), the most common
type of brain tumor in children, have discovered key biological differences in how mutated
genes combine with other
genes to
drive this childhood cancer.
When committee member Jennifer Kuzma, a policy analyst at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, asked what exactly represents a «different
type of risk» from existing products, several regulators invoked another nascent technology, known as
gene drive.
Both experiments showed that the wild -
type allele had greater DNA - binding capacity, and
drove higher expression
of the reporter
gene.
The federal government is launching a very different kind
of cancer study that will assign patients drugs based on what
genes drive their tumors rather than the
type.
Kevin Esvelt (Harvard University, Massachusetts) spoke about
gene drives —
types of genetic elements that
drive themselves through populations by distorting inheritance in their favor.
The study
of cancer genomes has revealed abnormalities in
genes that
drive the development and growth
of many
types of cancer.
This Vignette animates the creation
of a data
driven classification
of the cell
types in the mouse visual cortex based on the individual cells»
gene expression.