Sentences with phrase «versions of this gene showed»

Patients who had changed versions of this gene showed early promise, often attending college, but then experienced cognitive decline consistent with a degenerative disease.

Infants in the study who had different versions of the gene showed a more typical response to stress.

Not exact matches

The other 10 percent, with only the «G» versions of the gene, showed no IQ advantage or disadvantage from breastfeeding.»

Two initial studies suggest babies with a specific version of the FADS2 gene demonstrated an IQ averaging 7 points higher if breastfed, compared with babies with a less common version of the gene who showed no improvement when breastfed.

A gene - edited version of edible Agaricus bisporus mushrooms (unedited mushroom shown) doesn't need to be regulated as a genetically modified crop, agriculture officials say.

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.

«In our research, we show that when people taste alcohol in the laboratory, the amount of bitterness they experience differs, and these differences are related to which version of a bitter receptor gene the individual has.»

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute scientists and their collaborators have developed a new analysis tool that was able to show, for the first time, which genes were expressed by individual cells in different genetic versions of a benign blood cancer.

Previous studies had shown that inherited mutations to the gene that codes for PINK1 can stop a person from making working versions of the protein.

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.

People with one version of the gene have been shown in previous research to be less able to learn from rewards, while people with other versions were less driven by reward in learning.

In 1998, working with entomologist and geneticist Kenneth Ross of the University of Georgia in Athens, Keller showed that the two groups of fire ants had distinct versions of a gene known as Gp - 9.

A new variant of the gene - editing CRISPR / Cas9 system is safer and more specific than versions previously used in early research towards a treatment for Huntington's disease, shows research published today in Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Now a study shows that the protein built by healthy versions of the gene binds directly to DNA, suggesting that the protein might repair DNA damage.

«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.

Compared with SWP, «the only difference, really, is the meticillin - resistance gene,» Enright says, which shows that SWP is a retooled version of 80/81.

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.