Sentences with phrase «uniquely human gene»
When exposed to estrogen, an area in the brain's memory hub that is typically suppressed during such tasks instead activated in those with the uniquely human gene variant.
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Izpisua Belmonte is uniquely qualified to speak to the ethics of genome editing in part because, as a member of the committee on human gene editing of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, he helped author the 2016 roadmap «Human Genome Editing: Science, Ethics, and Governance.&rhuman gene editing of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, he helped author the 2016 roadmap «Human Genome Editing: Science, Ethics, and Governance.&rHuman Genome Editing: Science, Ethics, and Governance.»
«This is the first gene, to our knowledge... implicated in such pathways,» the authors write, «and it promises to offer insights into the molecular processes mediating this uniquely human trait.»
For gene editing to work, it is essential to uniquely target a single site among the 3 billion nucleotides in the haploid (single set of unpaired chromosomes) human genome.
The third Objective (IRF3) brings together promising scientists and clinicians from the University of Pennsylvania and the Rockefeller University to combine gene therapy strategies, independently tested in humans, with the goal of engineering, growing, and administering killer cells that are uniquely empowered to find and kill HIV - infected cells.
Confirming this prediction for several dozen HARs, our next goal was to see whether any of these HARs enhanced patterns of gene activation that were uniquely human.»
Based on their effect on neurons, as well as their locations in the genome, the researchers think that many of the HARs guide genes involved in brain development, as well as psychiatric diseases that are uniquely human, such as autism and schizophrenia.