Sentences with phrase «versions of genes at»

Different versions of genes at each location can lead to higher or lower protein concentration in soybean.

Not exact matches

Apple's next version of the iPhone will lead to a «paradigm shift,» with augmented reality as its foundation, said Gene Munster, managing partner at VC firm Loop Ventures.

«Ninety five percent of the aromatic rice analyzed shared the same version of the major gene for fragrance found in Thai Jasmine rice,» says Dr. Melissa Fitzgerald, grain quality researcher at IRRI.

It seems that pandas have an inactive version of the Tas1r1 gene that allows us to taste umami, say Jianzhi Zhang at the University of Michigan and his colleagues.

Modern chickens carry a version of the thyroid - stimulating hormone receptor gene, TSHR, that has been linked to several domesticated chicken characteristics: year - round egg laying, faster egg production at sexual maturity, reduced aggression toward other chickens and less fear of people.

University of Washington pathology professor George Martin and his colleagues at the Osaka University Medical School in Japan studied 347 Japanese, each with one of three versions of the Werner gene: the so - called cysteine - cysteine (CC), cysteine - arginine (CR), and arginine - arginine (RR) genotypes.

For more than 20 years, researchers have known that people who carry the E4 version of the APOE gene are at increased risk of developing Alzheimer's.

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.

To determine the rate at which DNA mutates, researchers compare different versions of the same gene from two to several dozen species.

A mutation in the gene produces a damaged version of the hormone, or no hormone at all.

The study team, led by neuroscientist Joseph Buxbaum of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and including coworkers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia and Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, genetically engineered mice to carry defective versions of the FOXP2 gene.

Different versions of genes can vary at single points in their sequence, and these variations are called SNPs.

When the scientists looked for the human version of the newly identified fly marker for sleep deprivation, they found ITGA5 and realized it hadn't been among the human immune genes they screened at the start of the study.

So you're doing the work in yeast and you are looking at this particular gene construct and an ancestral version of it.

Scientists then looked at the human version of the gene, and found that the gene was mutated in people suffering from Native American myopathy.

Having three versions of the genome to compare helped the researchers distinguish between contamination and real horizontal gene transfer, says Max Telford, a phylogeneticist at University College London.

At the time, scientists studying Icelandic horses known for a special gait discovered that they, as well as American Standardbred horses used in harness racing, share a somewhat shortened version of a gene called DMRT3.

Eight years ago, Manfred Kayser, a geneticist at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, wondered whether it would even be possible to tease out which versions of a gene would lead to a broad nose or a wide forehead.

«If you, by chance, inherit the risk version of this gene from your mother, then you're at higher risk for type 2 diabetes,» explained researcher Mete Civelek, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

«When we say the foraging gene is the same, what we're saying is that when you look at the DNA sequences of the human and the fly there is a lot of similarity, enough that you can see it's the fly version of the gene that the human has,» says Sokolowski.

In brown bears, the sequence of this gene varies from one bear to another, but all the polar bears surveyed have an identical version, with the exact same genetic code at nine variable spots in the gene, about half of which should change the function of the APOB protein.

Humans evolved Coordinator mutations that are good at turning on human versions of genes, but not so great at turning on chimp genes.

The gene's activity is higher in hybrid males carrying at least one copy of the promiscuous species» version than in males with two copies the monogamous version.

Such noncutting gene editors are possibly safer than traditional DNA - cutting versions, says Gene Yeo, an RNA biologist at the University of California, San Digene editors are possibly safer than traditional DNA - cutting versions, says Gene Yeo, an RNA biologist at the University of California, San DiGene Yeo, an RNA biologist at the University of California, San Diego.

In particular, they looked at whether these young adults said they had any credit - card debt and what version of the MAOA gene they had.

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.

Without a working version of the gene encoding SWEET4c, such as in the mutant lines provided by the UniformMu resource (Don McCarty and Karen Koch at the University of Florida), sugars were not delivered to the seeds and the backpack was empty (in science jargon: empty pericarp).

«Our conclusions make sense, especially in light of the work of other researchers who have shown that the human version of the FDNC5 gene has a deleterious mutation at the beginning,» Erickson said.

This study looks at variation in one immunological message, and finds that people with the uncommon version of the gene will make more antibodies after being vaccinated.

Crystal structure of a Cas9 in complex with an RNA guide and a stretch of target DNAWIKIMEDIA, H. NISHIMASU ET AL.. A team of researchers at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California, has used a version of CRISPR gene editing known as CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) to reversibly and accurately suppress gene expression in induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and derivative T cells and heart cells, according to a study published in Cell Stem Cell today (March 10).

Using mutated versions of the lamin A gene as an example to demonstrate the versatility of their virus - based approach, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies successfully edited a diseased gene in patient - specific induced pluripotent stem cells as well as adult stem 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.

In a paper that June, scientists demonstrated how it might be possible to efficiently edit genes — that is, how to snip DNA at a particular spot and insert different DNA, a sort of biological version of word processing's «find and replace.»

But, after researchers at Oregon Health and Science University managed to change the mutated version of the MYBPC3 gene to the unmutated version in a viable human embryo last month, the predictable bioethical debate was reignited, and terms such as «Designer Babies» got thrown around a lot.

If you don't have at least one of the sprint versions of that gene, you won't be in the Olympic 100 - meter final, period.

«It could have been something as simple as the first cow to have a black - and - white color by chance also carried the A1 version of the gene, and farmers then said, «we like the look of these,» said Keith Woodford, an honorary professor of farm management and agribusiness at New Zealand's Lincoln University.

There are in - fact two known versions of the curly gene, the most commonly seen is the Dominant - gened Curly horse, but a recessive version also exists that shows up in other breeds seemingly at random.

Whilst some of the lost alleles may be deleterious versions of genes, the process may at the same time increase the proportion of other, mildly deleterious alleles, in the small gene pool, and thus increase the incidence of some diseases.

At this point there are no tests for polygene traits, but when they are developed breeders will have to understand how each impacts the disease and select mates with a combination of gene versions that won't produce the disease when mixed with the combination the breeder's dog has.

Fifty - nine genes, or the regions that control them, stood out, with certain versions of the DNA much more common in the sport dogs, Kim reported at the meeting.

I tend to be suspect of anything that seems to capture the adoration and hearts of the general public (see American Idol, the American version of The Office, Titanic, the Snuggle, and 401K Retirement Plans) but at the same time, I'm just as suspect of so - called expert advice (see Gene Shalit, CNBC, and the Catholic Church).