Sentences with phrase «various known genes»

It is important to point out that the region of the 5qll chromosome contains various known genes that play a role in immune response.

Not exact matches

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.

Now we know that it is the DNA and genes and chromosomal segregation and linking that causes selective inheritance of various traits in humans.

The genomic results confirmed Ata's Chilean descent and turned up a slew of mutations in seven genes that separately or in combinations contribute to various bone deformities, facial malformations or skeletal dysplasia, more commonly known as dwarfism.

«Among them were multiple genes known to predispose individuals to Parkinson's — so we show that various genetic forms of Parkinson's are directly related to alpha - synuclein.

Moreover, considering that many of Arabidopsiss genes have human counterparts, knowing the locations and functions of the Arabidopsis genes will enable geneticists to locate the human genes and learn more about various disorders.

Next they tested an additional 27 genes that are known to be involved in various steps of ribosome biogenesis to verify whether SSUP was required for ESC maintenance.

Nobody knows why an invertebrate should need such a gene, but the fact that its various coding regions are organised in a subtly different way from those of all other known globin genes is forcing a rethink about the evolutionary history of globin genes.

The researchers focused on one common epigenetic process known as methylation, in which methyl (CH3) groups attach in various patterns to the genes of human cells.

But to get the most out of canine gene hunts, geneticist Elaine Ostrander and her colleagues at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, realized that she needed to know the degree of genetic differences among various breeds.

Esparza stresses that no one really knows how the differences between the various subtypes — in the sequence of their env gene, and structure of their gp120 — will affect people's immune responses.

In addition, MEFs are known to allow infection with various viruses and to express type I IFN genes effectively.

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), including human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), are known to be vulnerable to apoptosis upon various technical manipulation, such as single cell dissociation, freezing and thawing, etc., which hinder their use for clonal isolation in gene transfer, differentiation and FACS cell sorting.

Cleveland and the members of his lab use these therapies, also known as designer DNA drugs, to silence genes involved in the development of various neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's and Lou Gehrig's disease.

CRISPR is now so well known that Google finally stopped suggesting I may be looking for «crisps» instead, but the real - world applications are not so well worked out yet, and there are various issues around CRISPR, including off - target effects, and also the fact that deleting genes is much easier than replacing them with something else.

With the artificial cell system, according to Bar - Ziv, one can, in principle, encode anything: «Genes are like Lego in which you can mix and match various components to produce different outcomes; you can take a regulatory element from E. coli that naturally controls gene X, and produce a known protein; or you can take the same regulatory element but connect it to gene Y instead to get different functions that do not naturally occur in nature.»

One particular gene known as Taqpep was identified as controlling various aspects of mammalian coat patterns.

It lists the various genes known to impact Aussie coat color, the different versions of the genes, and which combinations result in which colors or patterns.