Sentences with phrase «wide variety of organisms»

Selfish elements live in a wide variety of organisms (including humans), and have devised a variety of methods for getting themselves passed on.

Caloric restriction is a proven method for lengthening life span of a wide variety of organisms, but scientists still don't know exactly how it works.

When researchers have looked at single or even pairs of factors in a wide variety of organisms, they've made many valuable findings about the biology of aging, Rand said.

They infect a wide variety of organisms: both eukaryotes (animals, fungi and plants) and prokaryotes (bacteria).

HAP2 appears to be necessary for cell fusion in a wide variety of organisms, including disease - causing protozoans, invasive plants and destructive insect pests.

The rock regatta Shortly after the 2006 eruption of an underwater volcano near the Pacific island of Tonga, researchers found a wide variety of organisms hitching a ride on volcanic pumice, Bryan told OurAmazingPlanet.

Antimicrobial peptides have been found in a wide variety of organisms, including people.

Through RNAi, cells in a wide variety of organisms — yeasts, plants, animals — are able to regulate the output of their genes.

Labs around the world have used this type of base editing to correct or install point mutations in a wide variety of organisms, including bacteria, fungi, rice, wheat, corn, tomatoes, fish, and mice.

High levels of IGF - 1 has been shown in a wide variety of organisms, including humans, to be associated with increased risk of death from age - related diseases such as cancer and heart disease.

«Given the power of such comparisons, there is a growing hunger among biologists and medical researchers for free and publicly available sequence data on a wide variety of organisms.

Even before the Human Genome Project ended, genomic researchers started sequencing the genomes of a wide variety of organisms.

Our group has been working with the characterization of SNPs, indels and in particular all kinds of CNVs and repeat elements in a wide variety of organisms, including humans, apes, dogs, plants and fish.

Scientists around the world have used and refined the system to tweak the DNA of a wide variety of organisms.

High levels of IGF - 1 has been shown in a wide variety of organisms, including humans, to be associated with increased risk of death from age - related diseases such as cancer and heart disease.

Because of the wide variety of organisms present, treating infections on such an empirical basis, although practical and unavoidable, dose not always lead to a satisfactory result (Slatter, 1981).