Sentences with phrase «types of proteins called»

«That's a type of experiment everyone does every day,» explains Charles Gersbach, a professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University — though he notes that traditionally, researchers have used a type of protein called a restriction enzyme, not CRISPR, to do this.

At that point, a particular type of protein called a transcription activator can kick - start the molecular process by which a gene gets turned on.

The gene codes for a type of protein called a transcription factor.

The tiny fungi convert a special type of protein called Sup35 into a prion.

HNF - 4α is a special type of protein called a nuclear receptor.

It's a type of protein called a nuclease.

Other research has shown that oxygen - deprived cells in the retina produce a type of protein called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which triggers the growth of new blood vessels in the retina.

The other end binds a type of protein called an E3 ubiquitin ligase.

Your body also needs a type of protein called intrinsic factor (IF) to absorb vitamin B - 12.

In affected dogs, those genes would typically make a type of protein called myotubularin, which is necessary for proper muscle function, and they don't.

Not exact matches

The treatment is a type of so - called CAR T - cell therapy — taking a patient's own immune cells, called T cells, genetically manipulating them to attack specific proteins on cancer, and infusing them back into the patient.

Its drug Niraparib kills cancer cells by inhibiting the production of proteins called PARPs, which help repair damaged DNA strands, thereby hastening the death of some types of cancer cells.

This recipe calls for textured vegetable protein (TVP), but if you find yourself with other types of vegan meat substitutes on hand, feel free to use them or simply add more mushrooms.

They either rely on one specific type of protein powder, call for a million different funky ingredients I've never heard of, or they are one flavor and one flavor only.

In fact, there are two types of proteins found in human milk, called «whey proteins», and «casein proteins».

To test their theory, they decided to do another study and look at the link between baby formula that had whole cow milk proteins and formula that had pre-digested cow milk proteins, a type of baby formula called hydrolyzed formula.

To address this problem, the Bristol team have combined two types of protein structure — called an a helix and a polyproline II helix — to make a stripped down, or simplified protein called a miniprotein.

The nanoparticles carry a drug compound that blocks a protein called Myc that is active in many types of cancer, including multiple myeloma.

Researchers know that patients with several types of cancer, including prostate cancer, have higher than normal levels of a protein called AMACR, and that the protein is linked to the aggressiveness of the cancer.

An encouraging development is the recent commercialization of biotech crops producing a novel type of Bt protein called a vegetative insecticidal protein, or Vip.

«Now, through our new study, we show that lowering levels of a particular cohesin protein called Rad21 in embryonic zebrafish produces similar types of heart defects to those found in people with CdLS,» Associate Professor Horsfield says.

The researchers targeted mTOR with an experimental drug based on a prototype first designed by Shokat, a chemist and an expert in designing molecules to target this type of protein, called a kinase.

Findings from a study in animals appear to demonstrate that temporarily blocking a type of protein, called type I interferon, can restore immune function and speed up viral suppression during treatment with anti-viral drugs for people with chronic infection of the virus that causes AIDS.

Barry Everitt, an experimental psychologist at the University of Cambridge in England, focused his group's efforts on proteins called NMDA - type glutamate receptors in rat brains.

The team found that individuals with long - standing type 1 diabetes and diabetic enteropathy have altered colonic stem cells (CoSCs) and increased blood levels of a regulatory protein called insulin - like growth factor binding protein 3 (IGFBP3), which is produced in the liver.

In the first, principal investigator Glass and colleagues investigated a pair of related transcriptional repressors called Rev - Erb - alpha and Rev - Erb - beta (proteins with important roles in regulating the circadian rhythm in many cell types) in mouse macrophages.

IL - 17 attracted other immune cells called neutrophils — the most abundant type of white blood cell — to the conjunctiva and induced the release of anti-microbial proteins into the tears.

People with Type 2 diabetes have an excess of a protein called islet amyloid polypeptide, or IAPP, and the accumulation of this protein is linked to the loss of insulin - producing pancreatic beta cells.

A relatively new biomarker called prostate - specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is the bullseye for three new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) agents that bind to the protein in not only prostate cancer, but a range of tumor types, according to research unveiled at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

In 1996, soil microbiologist Sara Wright of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland, found that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi — a type of microscopic fungus that lives symbiotically with plant roots — oozes a sticky protein called glomalin.

Researchers found that patients with a higher amount or higher proportion of an inflammatory protein called type 1 interferon beta compared with another inflammatory protein, type 1 interferon alpha, do not respond as well to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors as others.

Now, a new type of vaccine developed within an EU - funded project, called EuroNeut - 41, is based on one of the envelope proteins of the HIV virus, called the gp41 protein.

The discovery offers hope for treating many types of cancer that are driven to grow and spread through the actions of a cancer - causing protein called MYC.

But in 2010, Stephen Rossiter, an evolutionary biologist at Queen Mary, University of London, and his colleagues determined that both types of echolocating bats, as well as dolphins, had the same mutations in a particular protein called prestin, which affects the sensitivity of hearing.

Significantly, J&J's latest vaccine uses so - called mosaic technology to combine immune - stimulating proteins from different HIV strains, representing different types of virus from around the world, which should produce a «global» vaccine.

In P. aeruginosa, the major pump type is called MexAB - OprM and composed of three proteins: MexA, MexB and OprM.

A molecular biologist at the Broad Institute and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Zhang and colleagues have screened hundreds of candidate enzymes, among them, a protein called CPF1 that's used by many different types of bacteria to fight off viruses.

The plants» sky - blue glow comes from a protein called aequorin which a type of jellyfish called Aequorea victoria manufactures naturally.

In some human cell types, this process is controlled by a family of regulatory proteins called ESRP.

The engineered cells contain an antibody - like protein known as a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), which is designed to bind to a protein called CD19 found on the surface of B cells, including the cancerous B cells that characterize several types of leukemia.

Targeted drugs made from engineered immune proteins — called monoclonal antibodies — have revolutionised treatment for several types of cancer in recent years.

Researchers at the University of Leeds and in Japan used electron microscopes to capture images of the largest type of motor protein, called dynein, during the act of stepping along its molecular track.

Most of these «familial» cases have been linked to mutations in a gene called BMPR2 (bone morphogenetic protein receptor, type II), which was identified simultaneously in 2000 by two independent research teams, one led by the late Robin Barst and Jane Morse, CUMC researchers.

They also showed that drugs against a type of breast tumor called HER2 positive breast cancer — such as the dual ERBB2 / EGFR inhibitor lapatinib — potentially could benefit more patients than currently receive them, if analysis of the tumor proteins is taken into consideration.

Two such bacteria have been sequenced already, but neither contains a widespread and important set of proteins called type III.

The genes that make the toxin proteins sit within a complex that has embedded within it a type of genomic sequence called a transposable element.

A team of biologists led by Gerald Wilkinson of the University of Maryland, University Park, studied a type of Malaysian fly, called Cyrtodiopsis, with a strange genetic battle being waged inside its body: To perpetuate themselves, genes on the fly's X chromosome code for proteins that kill sperm carrying a Y chromosome.

People with Fragile X syndrome — the most common inherited type of mental retardation — lack a protein called FMR1 because the gene for FMR1 is laden with extra DNA.

When the researchers added a specific bone morphogenetic protein called BMP4, as well as another signaling molecule called retinoic acid, to human embryonic stem cells, they got a mixture of two types of sensory interneurons.

Baltimore, Md. (Embargoed until 12:30 pm EDT on Monday, June 8)-- A relatively new biomarker called prostate - specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is the bullseye for three new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) agents that bind to the protein in not only prostate cancer, but a range of tumor types, according to research unveiled at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).