Sentences with phrase «which other genes»

Shatz set out to investigate which other genes might be involved in controlling brain plasticity after birth.

It is only when considering which other genes they may regulate that this biology is revealed.

More work is also needed to reveal exactly which other genes might be involved.

Ruvkun's group is now using bioinformatics to figure out which other genes are controlled by daf - 16.

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These new entrants would need to get a licensing agreement from Myriad for anything they discovered related to the BRCA genes, which would effectively shut down future work by anyone other than Myriad in this area.

Instead of just focusing on human DNA, which in the other studies had yielded limited results, she looked at multiple sets of genes — and not just from humans.

These genes are implicated in highly penetrant genetic disorders for which surgical or other interventions aimed at preventing or significantly reducing morbidity and mortality are available to pathogenic variant carriers.5 Identification of a pathogenic variant in one of these genes could be diagnostic of a medical condition with potential implications for an individual's medical management.

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We know a lot of what we know about gene mutation and our similarities with other animals precisely because we have been working within this paradigm for which there is a ton of evidence.

If Chad and others argue that naturalistic evolution must be dismissed because we don't know exactly what happened with gene mutation and transmission frequencies during particular periods of rapid change, then how can we accept a replacement argument in which we don't even know what happens at all?

It is the specific arrangement of nucleotides along the chain of DNA which determines what that gene will do; it is the specific shape in three dimensions of a protein molecule which determines what sort of enzyme activity it will exhibit, and there are many other examples.

The burly bull's outsized legacy was made possible in part by careful record - keeping and, later, applied genetics, in which farmers select cattle whose genes — like Chief's — are linked with high milk production and other valuable attributes.

It's a decision which stands to impede access to genes for diagnostic and other purposes, while protecting the right of biomedical companies to extract higher returns for life - saving technology.

Vast rice - growing regions in India, Bangladesh, and other countries, which are submerged during rainy season and rendered useless for rice production, have been made productive since the SUB1 gene that makes rice flood - tolerant was discovered and bred into popular existing rice varieties.

Apparently broccoli contains potent nutrients which have the ability to switch «on» genes that prevent cancer development, and switch «off» other ones that help it spread.

According to the The Telegraph, among other news outlets, scientists in China have introduced human genes into a herd of cows whose milk contains some of the same properties as breast milk: higher fat content and two human proteins, lysozyme and lactoferrin, which help babies» immune systems.

Years of exposure to environmental toxins such as pesticides, paint strippers and other chemicals could be having more subtle effects on the way in which genes within the sperm are tagged and used later on.

A host of other genes, which control many other cellular processes do not show such abnormal DNA methylation after smoke exposure.

In the new research, the UB scientists found they could reverse those social deficits with a very low dose of romidepsin, which, they found, restores gene expression and function using an epigenetic mechanism, where gene changes are caused by influences other than DNA sequences.

While they don't have definite answers, besides having good genes, Kawas said, the answer is probably a combination of being resilient to Alzheimer's Disease and also that they did not develop other dementia - causing conditions, such as microscopic infarctions that occur when blood flow is blocked from certain regions of the brain and hippocampal sclerosis, which causes neuron loss.

Nearly two dozen of the altered genes are present in both the hippocampus and the blood, which presents the possibility that scientists could develop a gene - based blood test to determine whether a brain injury has occurred, and that measuring some of those genes could help doctors predict whether a person is likely to develop Alzheimer's or other disorders.

The scientists also generated a panel of (reconstructed) ancestral and existing TRIM5 genes (19 total), expressed them in cultured cell lines, and exposed the cells to 16 different retroviruses (lentiviruses and others) to see which TRIM5 versions conferred resistance to which viruses.

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In these and other inherited diseases, 10 to 15 percent of the single - base pair mutations that cause the disease create a misplaced, premature «stop» codon in the middle of the gene — causing the machinery of the cell to prematurely halt synthesis of the protein, which destroys its ability to function.

Kevin Esvelt, head of the Sculpting Evolution lab at MIT Media Lab, which is applying for Safe Genes funding in collaboration with eight other research groups, predicts that eventually, perhaps around 15 years from now, an accident will allow a drive with potential to spread globally to escape laboratory controls.

The researchers identified for the first time master genes that they believe control hundreds of other genes which are linked to Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, stroke, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, depression, schizophrenia and other disorders.

This finding suggests that the homologous region may have resulted from a duplication of an ancestral gene and that the two genes evolved further by recruitment of exons from other genes, which provided the specific functional domains of the LDL receptor and the EGF precursor.

The KAP1 protein acts as a regulator for several other genes which allow the brain to grow healthily and develop several types of brain cell.

Further genetic screening revealed that many of the genes turned on by this guide RNA strand are chaperone proteins, which help other proteins fold into the correct shape.

The initiative, called Safe Genes, comes at a time when so - called «gene drive» systems, which override the standard rules of gene inheritance and natural selection, are raising hopes among some scientists that the technology could alter or suppress populations of disease - carrying insects or other pests in as few as 20 generations.

Studies have shown that more than 50 % of all human cancers carry defects in the p53 gene, and almost all other cancers with a normal p53 function carry other defects which indirectly impair the cancer - fighting function of p53.

Luckily, along came Armstead and his colleagues, who were working to precisely locate the sequence of a gene called staygreen (sgr) in the meadow grass Festuca pratensis, some variants of which remain green in drought and other unfavorable conditions because they are unable to break down a green pigment.

Both genes produce the same basic proteinone of which ends up associated with the nucleus, the other outside of it.

The Epstein - Barr virus, which infects some 90 % of Americans, may cause changes in gene expression that dramatically increase a person's chance of getting lupus and six other autoimmune disorders, a new study by Harley, now a rheumatologist at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio, and colleagues shows.

Prof. Khatri and his team studied the way the immune system responds to infection by looking at gene expression — which genes are active and which are not — and whether there are differences in patients with malaria compared to other infectious diseases.

The back - and - forth attachment and removal of methyl groups also fine - tunes gene expression in stem cells, which can mature, specialize and multiply to become muscle, bone, nerve, or other cell types.

Several of the network genes Volkan and her team identified have counterparts in humans and other vertebrates, which suggests the same basic mechanism could be at work in building the nervous system in other animals too.

Brueckner's group looked for gene defects in two strains of mice with situs inversus, a mutation in which the heart, lungs, and other organs are inverted, like a mirror image.

The guilty protein is beta - catenin, a transcription factor which activates other genes.

Astoundingly, Venter says that his team could not identify the function of 149 of the genes in syn3.0's genome, many of which are found in other life forms, including humans.

«Professor Hummon and I have been mapping gene expressions for the right versus the left side of the colon, which we now know are different from each other due to the way the colon forms,» said Buechler.

They would be created through the process of lateral gene transfer, in which microbes incorporate loose bits of genetic material from other microbes into their own.

They lie in a region of chromosome 5 that sits squarely between two genes that produce cell - adhesion molecules, which govern how neurons connect to each other.

«From other studies ***** we know that epigenetic modifications of the DPP4 gene, which are associated with an increased production of the enzyme, have a negative impact on the liver metabolism already in young mice, long before fatty liver disease emerges,» says Baumeier.

He's optimistic that the gene will work in other plants as well, such as broccoli, which ethylene turns soft and yellow.

«By greatly narrowing the specific genes involved in social disorders, our findings will help uncover targets for treatment and provide measures by which these and other treatments are successful in alleviating the desperation of autism, anxiety and other disorders,» says Korenberg.

The scientists have shown that, in all cancers, a sort of «identity crisis» is observed in cancerous cells: in the organs or tissues in which a tumor develops, genes specific to other tissues or to other stages of the development of the organism express themselves in an aberrant manner.

This information may help to predict which other bacterial species might participate in this form of gene transfer, and to identify just how widespread the phenomenon is.

The French team and a British group that discovered the mouse gene both decided to see if the mutation — which hampers the production of a protein called myosin VIIA — might, as in the mice, explain inherited deafness without other sensory loss.

Trent and others says that the same mechanism might be at work in genes linked to other cancers, such as breast and prostate cancer, which have been found to contain similar «harmless» sequence variations.