Sentences with phrase «use of the same genetic»

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They hope to obtain a genetic profile of the killer and track that person down using family - tree tracing technology - the same kind used to trace DeAngelo.

Along this same line, the Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about the increasing use of blood tests shortly after birth to detect genetic diseases.

Using high school level science, explain to us how 4 breeding pair of humans, with 5 members sharing much of the same genetic material, can provide enough genetic diversity for the population to continue.

Many of the known risk factors of cancer — all cancers — are the same: smoking or any use of tobacco or nicotine products; exposure to radiation; infection; sunlight; genetic factors; hormones; and aging.

These results can also be used by researchers studying the genetic underpinnings of mental disorders, as they indicate that the same genes might be associated with increased risk for various psychiatric disorders.»

Crohn's and rheumatoid arthritis share the same genetic predispositions and both are often treated using the same types of immunosuppressive drugs.

But certainly if we find the remnants of life on Mars, and it's using the same genetic code, for example, as life on Earth, it is almost certain that the two forms of life are related.

Forensic virology could be on the way in the same way in which we use genetic fingerprinting of our human DNA to locate perpetrators at the scene of a crime and to help trace the relatives of unidentified bodies,» Gatherer said.

For example, genetically engineered organisms used in the research laboratory to develop new chemical synthesis methods are not likely to require the same level of public dialogue as products that have more uncertainty associated with them, such as organisms with gene drives, which enhance organisms» ability to pass certain genetic traits on to their offspring.

In the new study, they used the same genome - wide information and the largest data sets currently available to estimate the risk for the illnesses attributable to any of hundreds of thousands of sites of common variability in the genetic code across chromosomes.

All life forms on Earth use the same genetic alphabet of the bases A, T, C, and G — nitrogen - containing compounds that constitute the building blocks of DNA and spell out the instructions for making proteins.

They found that the defect is highly sensitive to an existing FDA - approved drug used to treat ovarian cancer — a discovery that challenges current practice for treatment of brain tumors and other cancers with the same genetic defect, said the scientists.

It was a mystery whether all plants use the same genes as Arabidopsis to produce stomata, or whether all the different stomatal forms and patterns result from each plant using its own unique set of genetic blueprints.

Fruit flies are small insects that are often used for genetic research as they reproduce quickly, are easy to breed in laboratory conditions and share many of the same fundamental mechanisms and pathways found in more complex organisms such as humans.

Furthermore, the same technologies used to create genetic models of cancer show promise as gene therapies capable of repairing mutations that lead to a range of diseases.

Humans have many cell types - nerve cells, blood cells, skin cells, to name a few - and while each cell contains the same genetic instructions, different parts of the genetic information are used to produce proteins in each type of cell.

The price of membership in the community was to use the same genetic code, according to Woese's theory, which is how the code came to be almost universal.

«The goal of this study was to determine whether these animals used the same genetic circuit to create and maintain the blastema tissue after injury.

The overall score encompass several factors: reproducibility of the antibody staining in different cell lines (and if signal strength correlates with RNA expression levels); assays for enhanced antibody validation by using antibodies binding to different epitopes on the same target protein (independent antibodies), by knockdown / knockout of the target protein (genetic methods) and by matching of the signal with a GFP - tagged protein (recombinant expression); experimental evidence for location described in literature.

They chose fruit flies because flies and humans use many of the same genes, but the genetic makeup of flies is much simpler and the short life cycle of flies better assists scientists in conducting genetic experiments, Panin said.

However some technical challenges still need to be taken to make the technology more accessible and usable to its full potential: gaining selective and comprehensive genetic access to the neurons of interest, controlling variation in the expression of the optogenetic tools (when using viruses) and its precise localization (axon vs. presynaptic terminals), tailoring light - delivery system signals to individual cells in a population rather than the population as a whole, developing observation techniques which have the same spatial and temporal resolution as those tools... to cite only a few of them.

When the researchers used an IP6K inhibitor drug called TNP instead of genetic manipulation, results were the same.

Oxitec scientists developed a more carefully targeted way to produce the same «sterilisation» effect using genetic control instead of radiation.

On Friday, police in Washington state announced the arrest of William Earl Talbott II for a double murder in 1987, and this time, they proudly announced the use of the same method of tracing distant relatives through DNA — a field known as genetic genealogy.

Meaning that the same genetic makeup used to protect and herd livestock runs through the veins of the Doberman.

You can use the same genetic information to devise of a comprehensive plan for your dog's oral or dental health as well as immune system integrity and coat skin health.

The ideal use of DNA tests is to prevent producing affected puppies, while at the same time maintaining genetic diversity and gradually decreasing the prevalence of the disease gene (s) in the breed.

In addition, we analyzed genetic structure of the 4 subspecies (localities aggregated by subspecies) using the same methods described above.

Advances in plant science could help increase yields while at the same time reducing the use of fertiliser and pesticides - though the use of genetic modification to generate more suitable crop varieties remains controversial.

They commented that the same concerns regarding use and disclosure of genetic and hereditary information for other purposes apply in the research context.

The current study used factor analysis to assess the degree to which personality characteristics derived from different theories signify the same latent personality constructs, and biometric modeling to understand the genetic and environmental structure of these constructs.

Abstract: The current study used factor analysis to assess the degree to which personality characteristics derived from different theories signify the same latent personality constructs, and biometric modeling to understand the genetic and environmental structure of these constructs.

The current study used longitudinal, behavioral genetic data on 519 same - sex twin pairs (48.6 % female) divided into two age cohorts (13 — 15 and 16 — 18 years olds) drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.

Genetic, shared, and non-shared environmental effects were estimated for each temperamental construct and psychiatric disorder using the statistical program MX. Multivariate genetic models were fitted to determine whether the same or different sets of genes and environments account for the co-occurrence between early temperament and preschool psychiatric disGenetic, shared, and non-shared environmental effects were estimated for each temperamental construct and psychiatric disorder using the statistical program MX. Multivariate genetic models were fitted to determine whether the same or different sets of genes and environments account for the co-occurrence between early temperament and preschool psychiatric disgenetic models were fitted to determine whether the same or different sets of genes and environments account for the co-occurrence between early temperament and preschool psychiatric disorders.