Sentences with phrase «types of gene drives»
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.
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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.