Sentences with phrase «version of the gene into»

A year later, researchers corrected the faulty gene in lab - grown lung cells and felt it wouldn't be long before gene therapy could be used to implant correct versions of the gene into people with CF.

But swapping the fly version of the gene into these mutant mice corrects most of those abnormalities.

The scientists used a harmless virus to shuttle a healthy version of the gene into their eyes.

Then they slipped a human version of each gene into yeast cells whose own copy of the gene had been turned down, turned off, or removed.

Not exact matches

After fishing stem cells from each individual's own blood, the researchers inserted a normal version of the ABCD1 gene into some of the cells and transplanted them back into the kids.

1982: In the early 80s, scientists realize that retroviruses have tremendous potential to deliver genes stably into large numbers of cells, and start producing lab - safe versions.

His trick was to insert the gene coding for CREB into a version of the herpesvirus that can infect neurons without spreading to nearby cells.

They enable molecular biologists and geneticists to selectively chop DNA into pieces, which can then be assembled into new versions of the gene, inserted into the genomes of other organisms, or sequenced as part of an effort to map an organism's genetic material.

At the meeting, team member Koffi Konan, a plant molecular biologist, showed how the plants were made by inserting shortened or backward versions of each of the genes — Ara h1, Ara h2, and Ara h3 — into cultured cells from peanut plants.

Strosberg and his colleagues found that cells with the mutant gene can make a version of leptin but can not properly secrete it into the bloodstream.

By inserting a cloned version of the wild gene into conventional wheat plants they boosted the amount of protein, zinc and iron in the grain by 10 to 15 percent.

When transplanted into human cells in the laboratory, the mammoth TRPV3 gene produced a protein that is less responsive to heat than an ancestral elephant version of the gene.

Researchers are investigating ways to insert functioning versions of the clotting factor gene into patients» own cells.

Unlike the better - known role of RNA as an intermediary between genes and proteins, these shortened versions of 19 to 25 nucleotides do not get translated into proteins.

BRAIN MAZE Even before symptoms show up, young people who have a version of a gene linked to Alzheimer's disease tap into different areas of the brain to navigate through a virtual reality maze.

The virus inserts the therapeutic gene into the cell's DNA and uses its instructions to produce a receptor protein — a modified version of a common glutamate receptor ion channel - that they display on their surface.

But when physiologist H. Lee Sweeney of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia and his colleagues put this faulty gene into embryonic quail muscle cells growing in lab dishes, the cells made a shortened version of the protein and incorporated it into their contractile machinery.

Different versions of the FRO2 gene («variants») fell into two groups, those that were associated with a short root and those that were associated with a long root.

And researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine report in Genome Research that they linked the evolution of a gene in the old platypus to a mutated version in humans responsible for moving the testes outside of the body and into an external pouch, or scrotum.

The modified version of the cloned gene was then introduced into the plant by Agrobacterium tumefaciens bacteria.

Then, using more lab tricks, scientists can re-introduce their home - grown version of the Huntington's disease gene into mouse cells and grow new mice that have it in every cell of their body.

Dr. Verma and his Salk colleagues pioneered the use of a stripped - down version of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, the causative agent of AIDS) to carry genes into defective cells.

In 2007, a research group at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) led by Jean Bennett began inserting a working version of the RPE65 gene into the eye by means of a harmless virus that carries the gene and «infects» the DNA of the RPE cells.

By inserting a slightly modified version of the GFP gene into the genomes of other organisms, researchers have visualized a stunning range of biological phenomena.

We have inserted our improved versions of the ATP8 gene, equipped with our specialized mitochondrial tagging system, into the nuclear genome.

Then they used a modified virus to deliver an «anti-sickling» version of the beta globin gene into the stem cells they'd removed pre-chemo.

A gene for green fluorescent protein from the jellyfish, Aequorea Victoria, has been inserted into the cats» DNA and is used as a marker for cells carrying a second gene which confers resistance to the feline version of the AIDS virus, the Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV).

Although many other colors of dogs exist, their versions of genes that code for those colors are not going into this new breed.

Future treatments may involve the administration of a miniature version of the affected gene, called a microgene, into the body to protect muscles, but is not yet available.

People with two copies of one version of the serotonin transporter gene region 5 - HTTLPR (the long allele, in case you're into doing your own genetic testing) are less sensitive to emotional information in the environment than those with one or two copies of the short allele.