Sentences with phrase «using gene technology»

Leonard S. Schleifer, a neurologist and assistant professor at Columbia University, founded Regeneron in 1988 with the goal of using gene technology to regenerate neurons.

This standard addresses health and safety requirements, regulating the sale of food produced using gene technology, other than additives and processing aids.

Division 1 of this Standard sets out the permission and conditions for the sale and use of foods produced using gene technology.

Division 2 of this Standard specifies the labelling and other information requirements for foods produced using gene technology.

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The treatment (which involves injecting people with modified viruses carrying the CRISPR technology that will go in and repair the faulty DNA) can be injected directly into the retina and, in this case, used to delete the portion of the CEP290 gene that's responsible for the disease.

BOSTON, April 20 (Reuters)- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Friday that Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Inc will pay it $ 25 million in cash and stock to resolve a lawsuit claiming it stole trade secrets about gene - silencing technology used to develop drug treatments.

Editas, a startup based in Cambridge and founded in November 2013, wants to eventually use the technology to treat disease by coming up with therapies that can modify faulty disease - causing genes.

For example, researchers could use the technology to replace a disease - causing mutated gene with a healthy one.

The group's guidance follows calls for various bans on use of the technology known as CRISPR - Cas9, which has quickly become the preferred method of gene editing in research labs because of its ease of use compared with older techniques.

Well, one startup is seeking to take a very different approach: Exonics Therapeutics, which has secured $ 5 million in seed funding from CureDuchenne Ventures to see if the revolutionary new CRISPR - Cas - 9 gene - editing technology can be used to target the root genetic deficiency at the heart of the disease.

Companies are also finding that using M&A to acquire R&D capabilities is an effective way to build positions in emerging technologies such as gene therapy and biosimilars.

By invalidating key parts of Myriad's patents, the court has removed a bar that prevented labs using new technology from developing and selling broader one - time tests that search for all known cancer risks, including the BRCA genes, geneticists said.

But, as journalist Steve Connor reports, the reference to editing was intentional: «Scientists have used the genome - editing technology to cure adult laboratory mice of an inherited liver disease by correcting a single «letter» of the genetic alphabet which had been mutated in a vital gene involved in liver metabolism.»

Before the products from these varieties can be used, they will need approval from the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator, which ensures GM plants are safe for humans and the environment and from Food Standards Australia and New Zealand which regulates food safety.

Using gene - sequencing technology, researchers established that the precise segment of the pup's DNA «switched on» by the act of grooming was the part that controlled the future function of the hippocampus, which processes stress hormones.

BETTER BABIES If CRISPR / Cas9 or other gene - editing technologies are ever approved for use in human embryos, parents may one day feel as if they have to use genetic enhancements to give their children the best life possible.

Dr. Giedd's research team seeks to use cutting edge technologies to explore the relationship between genes, brain and behavior in healthy development and in neuropsychiatric disorders of childhood onset.

«I fully support the reproductive use of gene - editing technology for the prevention and elimination of serious genetic diseases,» Green said at the symposium.

A day after a critical patent ruling on the gene - editing technology called CRISPR, researchers gathered at the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting to discuss the technology's future ethical and regulatory concerns surrounding its broader use.

It also may be possible in the future to repair the gene mutation using gene - editing technology, which the investigators were able to do in the laboratory dish, he added.

«We spent half a dozen years trying to target the beta globin gene using the old technology,» he noted, adding that within one week of trying CRISPR, they had an editing tool that worked much better.

Brains of individuals who died with Huntington's, Parkinson's or no neurological condition were analyzed using sequencing technology that provides a data readout of the activity of all genes in the genome.

Lu's team will extract immune cells called T cells from the blood of the enrolled patients, and then use CRISPR — Cas9 technology — which pairs a molecular guide able to identify specific genetic sequences on a chromosome with an enzyme that can snip the chromosome at that spot — to knock out a gene in the cells.

To identify genes involved in the patterning of adult structures, Gal4 - UAS (upstream activating site) technology was used to visualize patterns of gene expression directly in living flies.

In 1993, between the first and second years of his MBA program, Kreiner interned at Affymetrix, a then - new company that used technology from the semiconductor industry to analyze vast numbers of genes.

Next, the scientists removed the Duchenne mutations in the iPS cells using a gene editing platform they developed that uses the CRISPR / Cas9 technology.

The scientists then scanned the samples using microarray technology, which cuts genetic material into segments to provide a snapshot of which genes are active and which are asleep inside the cells.

Using the genomic technologies he's learned at the IGB, Woolbright hopes to develop a research program that investigates climate - driven changes in species interactions at the gene level.

A team of researchers at the University of Central Florida is using breakthrough gene - editing technology to develop a new screening tool for Parkinson's disease, a debilitating degenerative disorder of the nervous system.

The technology has been developed in recent years in fruit flies, mosquitoes and other organisms, using CRISPR gene editing.

Immune cells called CAR - T cells have already been engineered using other gene - editing technologies.

To do this, they created a cellular model of Werner syndrome by using a cutting - edge gene - editing technology to delete WRN gene in human stem cells.

For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.

Using a novel combination of technologies, including trio exome sequencing of patient / parental DNA and genetic studies in the tiny larvae of zebrafish, the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium found that mutations in the gene CHD2 are responsible for a subset of epilepsy patients with symptoms similar to Dravet syndrome — a severe form of childhood epilepsy that is in many patients resistant to currently available anti-epileptic drugs.

Ultimately, this week's discourse will lead to a consensus statement providing some guidance on how to approach using this and older gene editing technologies such as zinc finger nucleases and enzymes called transcription activator - like effector nucleases, or TALENs.

Both companies are also exploring RNA interference (RNAi) technology — the use of RNA molecules to inhibit gene expression — to prevent plant diseases.

He used a molecular technology called ribo - tag that allowed him to find out which genes were being made into proteins by astrocytes.

Today, biologists from Oregon report in Nature that they have had unprecedented successes using that gene - editing technology to alter early - stage, viable human embryos.

In the case of CHD2, scientists collaborating with the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium used antisense technology to rapidly generate zebrafish larvae with a partial loss of function of this gene, and were then able to detect epileptic seizures in these animals using electrographic analysis (this method is very similar to electroencephalography, or EEG, which is used to analyze seizures in humans).

With the state - of - the - art DNA sequencing technology used in this study, they will be able to pinpoint the exact mistake in each patient's SS - related genes.

Last year, another group used TALENs, an older gene - editing technology, to create two cows without horns, but this is the first time CRISPR has been reported to insert a gene in cattle.

In the second stage of the study, the researchers used another version of the gene - probe technology, called «quantitative PCR,» which yielded the vaginal concentrations of each of the 20 species in every sample, and linked it to HIV risk.

GenInfo is well organized and easy to «browse,» whether you need the new statement on cloning from the Human Genome Organization or the new Swedish law concerning the use of gene technology on human beings.

Using iPS cell technology, the scientists found that only cells harboring the FOP gene mutation would respond to Activin - A by significantly increasing their BMP signaling.

«What we used to do in years, we can now achieve in months,» said gene researcher and immunologist Klaus Rajewsky, indicating the power of this new genome - editing technology.

Last year, another group used TALENs, an older gene - editing technology, to create two cows without horns, but this is the first time scientists have reported using CRISPR to insert a gene in cattle.

«With this breakthrough we now have a working technology whereby anyone can pass on their genes to a child by using just a few skin cells,» he says.

Using a powerful genetic technology called RNA - seq, these experiments revealed a nearly comprehensive list of all the genes, including some not previously identified, that guide the development of taste cells.

NIH scientists then searched for disease - causing genes using next - generation DNA sequencing, technology that allows researchers to sequence DNA quickly and economically.

«However, our new approach uses cutting - edge DNA sequencing technology to precisely measure the effects of thousands of sequences on gene activity at the same time.»