Sentences with phrase «what genes control»

Knowing that blastema formation is a key part of limb regeneration in animals with this capability as adults, researchers Benjamin L King and Voot P Yin looked at three regenerative species — the zebrafish, axolotl and the bichir — with the aim of finding out what genes control this event.

«We're now in an age where we can pretty easily figure out what genes control those differences,» von Wettberg says, keeping the qualities that mechanized farming requires, «while adding in resistance to drought, disease, and pests.»

Not exact matches

I'm not gay, nor lesbian, so I can only imagine what it would be like for those who are born with wrong genes, body, etc., to have to live in a world so full of hatred for something they have no control over.

They asked the question, What controls the activity of a single gene, turning it on or off?

But it is not actually the crucial question, which is, What controls the activity of the complex interacting set of genes, which produces a nerve cell or a muscle cell?

What all these have in common is that, without any central control, individual units (genes, cells neurons or workers) respond to simple, local information, in ways that allow the whole system (cells, brains, organisms or colonies) to function: the appropriate number of units performs each activity at the appropriate time.

«If we know how genes control drug response, we can create a statistical model that shows us what will happen before using the drug,» said Wu, who is also a member of Penn State's Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.

Psychiatrist Ming Tsuang and his colleagues at Boston University figured that if genes help control what people feel when they smoke pot, then genetically identical twins should experience a similar kind of high or low when they use the drug.

Research into the drivers of genetic diversity has largely focused on gene expression, which controls how much of a given protein will be made, when, and in what tissue.

What convinced them, says Rossi's lawyer, Barbara Lawless, was testimony from a medical witness that each person's weight is controlled primarily by genetics — he attributed 80 percent to genes and only 20 percent to environment.

So what makes humans different from our nearest relatives is that we have lost some regulatory DNA (12 March, p 3 and p 6) which controls how genes are expressed.

Researchers have identified many of Short - root's gene targets, but weren't sure what controlled the Short - root master switch itself to kick off the cascade.

In C. amylolentus, dozens of genes at two different locations on the chromosomes control what's called a tetrapolar, or four - part, mating system.

What if material from our food actually made its way into the innermost control centers of our cells, taking charge of fundamental gene expression?

Unfortunately, what is known about the 300 or more genes that control tooth development comes mostly from mouse studies, and their teeth are a lot different from those of primates, from which they diverged about 70 million years ago.

In recent decades we have learned that it does much more, from controlling what form a protein will take to influencing whether a particular gene is able to generate a protein.

In his lab, Strauss says, «the crux of the scientific work is determining what makes trees flower at a certain time,» so that flowering can be controlled or the genes cut out altogether.

Twelve of those were genes that control fundamental aspects of development, which is «twice what you'd expect,» Kahn says.

But what controls the gene?

It's hard to say what is selecting for these traits, and to discern whether they are being passed down through the women's genes, but because Stearns controlled for many social and cultural factors, it is likely that his results document genetic, rather than cultural evolution at work.

While standard cross-sectional, or case - control studies haven't shown a huge impact from non-HLA genes, they only provide a «snapshot» of what is happening with both patients and controls alike, the scientists say.

Normally gene identification starts with what is called a case - control design, in which genetic variations are compared between patients with a condition and healthy individuals, to look for differences that may contribute to the disease.

Transcription factors are expressed (or made) at different levels in different cell types, and control what genes are expressed in every cell, making sure, for example, that a liver cell remains a liver cell and does not become a neuron.

The gene and associated mechanism of quality control appears to be conserved in mammals, but there is as yet little further research leading towards trying a similar approach in mice and humans to see what happens.

Transcription factors dictate what genes are turned on or off in a cell during embryo formation, thereby controlling the type of organ the cell will form.

What Dr. Godwin eventually hopes to do is develop drugs derived from macrophages that will give humans the ability to heal without scarring — either directly or by triggering genes that control the formation of macrophages.

From the European Commission Research & Innovation website: «Scientists identify gene behind blood orange pigmentation», Researchers in China, Italy and the United Kingdom have discovered what gene is responsible for blood orange pigmentation, and how it is controlled.

This technique uses light, or optics, to control what a cell's genes do.

Our genes get messages from our interactions with our environment and our lifestyle choices, and they translate those messages into cellular instructions; these instructions are what then control our health and disease patterns.

But what we can do is help control the output of our genes through our lifestyle choices.

Therefore, what we have control over is the expression of our genes.

While your genes are what they are, you directly control your environment and the stimuli your body receives.

I had no control over what my parents» genes gave me to start with.

Here's what you get during those minutes, according to new reports: an instant endorphin surge and drop in blood pressure, regulation of hunger hormones that may help you keep weight off, and key vitamin D synthesis that alters the expression of 291 genes responsible for everything from controlling how quickly your bones age to how fast you bounce back from tough workouts to how fertile you are.

what they want is exactly what Gene has mentioned: «the Big 5 can exert a lot more control over print and distribution of paper copies than they can over electronic copies.»

The other 98 percent has nothing to do with the genes, but with how the body controls what our genes do.

The focus in genetic disease control must be on today's breeding dogs, and what we can do to control the spread of defective genes and to produce quality, healthy dogs.

According to an interview with UK trade magazine Develop, the biggest problem Infinity Gene's director and graphic designer Reisuke Ishida and his team faced when tackling the iPhone was not what game they should try to pitch at the mobile market, but instead a more practical quandary: how to incorporate the format's controls into gameplay.