Sentences with phrase «types of mutations allowed»
Comparing the two types of mutations allowed the team to spot genes that have had changes favoured by natural selection while taking into account the background mutation rate.
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Scientists are beginning to identify cancer by its mutations rather than just its tissue of origin, allowing them to find drugs more precisely targeted to a particular disease type.
By solving the origins and the reassortments that led to the 2009 A / H1N1 pandemic, researchers might be able to study existing «brothers and sisters» of the virus to understand the type of mutations needed to allow a virus to jump into humans.
The types of tumor that can be particularly responsive to immunotherapy generally happen in older people, or people who have genetic factors that allow their tumors to acquire a lot of mutations — so that the tumor has a lot of different antigens that are recognized by the immunotherapy.
We developed SomaticSniper to detect somatic mutations in whole - genome sequencing data while allowing for tumor contamination of normal cells that occurs in some types of leukemia.
By replacing a relatively large region of DNA, the technique allows the scientists to fix many gene mutations at once, which suggests the method might provide a way to treat hundreds of types of HBB - related diseases.
This provided the mechanism by which bacteria acquire immunity to specific viral infections, allowed introduction of specific mutations at desired sites, and provided the means to transfer efficient Cas9 - directed break, repair, and editing to any cell type.
Dogs affected with Type I vWD have a mutation which allows normal vWF to be produced part of the time, so even dogs with two copies of the defective gene (affected dogs) have some minimal amount of normal vWF.
Many types of phytoplankton do increase their numbers rapidly but they propagate primarily by asexual reproduction, which makes it less likely for populations to accumulate the genetic mutations that could allow them to adapt.