Sentences with phrase «yeast cells researchers»

August 2, 1996 Protein particles similar to those suspected in «mad cow» disease found in yeast cells Researchers at the University of Chicago's Howard Hughes Medical Institute have shown that a defective cell trait can be propagated by a faulty protein, without any DNA or RNA serving as the genetic blueprint.

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The researchers deployed this technology in yeast cells that are genetically engineered to overproduce a protein associated with Parkinson's disease, known as alpha - synuclein.

To answer this question, the researchers created numerous premature stop signs, known as nonsense mutations, in test genes in human and yeast cells.

In a Cell paper publishing September 8, researchers describe a family tree of these microbes with an emphasis on beer yeast.

In order to describe the mechanism of a membrane sensor which measures the degree of lipid saturation in the yeast cell, the researchers used genetic and biochemical methods and simulated the motions and underlying forces of membrane lipids over a period of a few milliseconds by means of extensive molecular dynamic simulations.

Already, researchers have used CRISPR / Cas9 to edit genes in human cells grown in lab dishes, monkeys (SN: 3/8/14, p. 7), dogs (SN: 11/28/15, p. 16), mice and pigs (SN: 11/14/15, p. 6), yeast, fruit flies, the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, zebrafish, tobacco and rice.

«Protein isolated from baker's yeast shows potential against leukemia cells: Researchers performed in vitro trials to test the effect of L - asparaginase on acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells and published the results in Scientific Reports.»

The researchers behind the new study say that the fact that this mechanism is highly similar in human cells and yeast cells suggests that it plays a key role in ensuring proper chromosome distribution following each cell division.

The team of researchers, led by yeast cell biologist Susan Lindquist of the University of Chicago, had demonstrated last year that a metabolic trait in yeast called [PSI +] could be passed from one generation to the next without changes in the yeast's DNA.

Researchers at Tufts University have created a genetically modified yeast that can more efficiently consume a novel nutrient, xylose, enabling the yeast to grow faster and to higher cell densities, raising the prospect of a significantly faster path toward the design of new synthetic organisms for industrial applications, according to a study published today in Nature Communications.

In a study led by the University of Montana and co-authored by Purdue mycologist M. Catherine Aime, researchers show that lichens across six continents also contain basidiomycete yeasts, single - celled fungi that likely produce chemicals that help lichens ward off predators and repel microbes.

Researchers in this study used budding yeast, creating populations of cells with more than 10 million different randomised genomes, to investigate how genetic diversity affected resistance.

«Researchers ID cancer gene - drug combinations ripe for precision medicine: Yeast, human cells and bioinformatics help develop one - two punch approach to personalized cancer therapy.»

The researchers ended up with 172 drug - gene mutation combinations that successfully killed both yeast and human cancer cells.

A yeast retrotransposon called Ty3, the researchers have found, is especially judicious: it always inserts itself in safe places, outside genes rather than inside them, and only near genes of which a yeast cell has many copies.

After inserting more than 400 human genes into yeast cells, researchers found that almost half of the human genes actually worked and kept the yeast alive!

A team of researchers at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) has recently discovered that in yeast cells, the amount of nutrients that cells are exposed to can affect DNA surveillance and repair mechanisms and therefore the quality of their DNA.

Even when the researchers helped extend the cells» life spans by knocking out a problematic gene, the yeast DNA still started breaking down after 25 cell divisions.

The researchers also engineered a yeast strain where a mutant condensin was produced by the cell when it went into figurative labor.

Researchers in OIST's G0 Cell Unit used fission yeast to find the binding sites of this particular protein complex along chromosomal DNA.

Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports on October 9th have discovered why the yeast (formally known as S. cerevisiae) make that smell: the scent attracts fruit flies, which repay the yeast by dispersing their cells in the environment.

And researchers at the «Seattle project», an effort funded by the National Cancer Institute to find new anticancer drugs, are mutating genes in yeast cells — such as the ATM gene or the mismatch repair genes — that often lead to cancer in humans.

The researchers built a transistor that contains carbon nanotubes and antibodies programmed to attack the Candida yeast cells.

To determine which strains yielded increased lifespan, the researchers counted yeast cells, logging how many daughter cells a mother produced before it stopped dividing.

Last year, researchers working to synthesize the genome of a strain of yeast began to eye a much bigger prize: assembling from scratch the 3 billion base pairs of DNA that drive a human cell.

Researchers have previously demonstrated that yeast, fruit fly cells and some types of human cells grown in lab dishes divvy up proteins unequally.

Light played a key role in the experiment because it allowed the researchers to switch on genes that they had added to the yeast cells.

After inserting more than 400 human genes into yeast cells one at a time, researchers found that almost 50 % of the genes functioned and enabled the fungi to survive.

Researchers know that the cells of species such as yeast, flies and humans make far more RNA molecules — copied from DNA — than they seem to need.

In one experiment, researchers sifted through a protein library produced in yeast cells to select antibodies that bound most tightly to a cancer target.

October 21, 1994 Immortalizing agent of tumor cells found in yeast Researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have isolated the gene for a component of the elusive molecular machinery that plays a key role in making cancer cells immortal.

Now, researchers at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and their colleagues have shown that amyloid - β can protect against yeast and bacterial infections in two animal models, as well as in cultured human cells.

To be able to better measure the properties of the protein, the researchers introduced the genetic information for the BvSUT1 protein into yeast cells or into the ova of an African clawed frog.

The researchers looked at whether longer CAG repeats in ataxin - 2 made the yeast ALS cells worse, and found that they did.

MEDFORD / SOMERVILLE, Mass. (March 26, 2018)-- Researchers at Tufts University have created a genetically modified yeast that can more efficiently consume a novel nutrient, xylose, enabling the yeast to grow faster and to higher cell densities, raising the prospect of a significantly faster path toward the design of new synthetic organisms for industrial applications, according to a study published today in Nature Communications.

However, using a new technique known as sensitivity - enhanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Whitehead Institute and MIT researchers have shown that they can analyze the structure that a yeast protein forms as it interacts with other proteins in a cell.

In the Cell paper, the researchers analyzed a yeast protein called Sup35, which Lindquist's lab has been studying for many years.

The researchers note that in the mammalian brain, whose cells do not divide, prions pass between cells and function as infectious agents; in yeast, they produce heritable changes from one generation to the next.

Researchers at SciLifeLab have shown that a high - throughput method using microfluidic droplet sorting of mutated yeast cells can be used to improve the production of industrial enzymes.