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And one of the genes, ROMK, has turned out to be a particularly promising target for new high blood pressure therapy.

Almost all adult females breed, so a mother will get at least some of her genes into the next generation by producing them.

The condition tends to run in families and genes are thought to be involved in at least some cases.

Dr. J. David Curb, one of the researchers, said the new grant is the first to look specifically at genes that affect life span.

While choosing partners, people seem to be attracted easily by the person whose genes are too different from themselves.

Even if the genes themselves are not initially hazardous, you do not know how they are going to evolve.

As you know, this science studies how pieces of DNA, called genes, encode human traits and behavior.

This corn got a nutritious boost when scientists this year introduced seven genes that made it a viable source of four vitamins.

Genes are not merely selfish, it appears. Instead, people seem to have deep instincts for fairness, empathy and attachment.

Both genes are thought to influence appetite and how much energy the body uses.

Unlike other similar immune system genes, this one, known as HLA-C, is not thought to be switched off by HIV after it enters the body.

Across the world a number of groups are trying to develop synthetic polymers to deliver genes, entirely removing the need to use viruses.

But much to my surprise and against all of my plans, I later discovered that this same group of genes is also part of the human DNA.

In the last few years, biologists have been able to scan the whole human genome for the signatures of genes undergoing selection.

In other studies, viral vectors have been used to introduce "therapeutic" genes into the central nervous system.

Surely confidence in this matter would be an advantage to passing on genes, and a terror of it would be a great disadvantage.

Good genes are a blessing that some should be grateful for, but they can help only so much. The rest, for better or worse, is all up to you.

Most have paid a few hundred dollars for tests on only a few genes, to see if they are likely to contract a specific disease.

It is possible that if a different host was used, a different set of untransferable genes might have been identified.

So, while my genes bias my brain toward spooking easily and trying to make a quick buck, that isn't how I actually behave.

By this criterion, many of the genes under selection seem to be responding to conventional pressures.

How can such a miserable feeling have improved our ancestors' chances of passing their genes on to the next generation?

Companies are trying to make drugs that consist of short sequences of double-stranded RNA, the chemical cousin of the DNA in genes.

Conservation of proximity of a pair of genes across multiple genomes generally indicates that their functions could be linked.

In my research I discovered a unique group of genes necessary for a plant to determine if it's in the light or in the dark.

Some of these "untouchable genes" could help explain why the human brain is so much more complex than the apes' version.

But it isn't only the inflammation genes that seem to be affected by loneliness.

The cause is part genetic and part environmental, but researchers trying to identify the relevant genes have endured repeated frustration.

Using that set as a starting point, Yankner's group is trying to determine just what those genes do to affect individual aging processes.

And sixth, these modular genes seem to be involved in the crucial job of linking nerve cells together through junctions called synapses.

In mammals, females are XX while males are XY so a woman should never be able to provide the necessary Y chromosome genes to produce a son.

Unlike other parts of our body, like the heart or our muscles, much of the information it holds is not contained within our genes.

It would be like you recovering genes of your grandparents that your parents did not have.

Ten percent of its genes are dedicated to making it a champion connoisseur of odors, mostly unpleasant.

It had thousands more genes and proteins than any bacterium, despite sharing other features, like the genetic code.

Type 2 diabetes is often associated with obesity, although several inheritable genes have also been linked to the condition.

One of first things biologists noticed was that genes reside in different parts of the nucleus depending on their activity.

Biotechnology companies patent genes, the very stuff of life, while scientists worry that this risks compromising basic research.

Everyone's genes spell out a risk for some disease, and a coming anti-discrimination law is about to give genetic testing a boost.

Controlling the flow of transgenic genes into the wild via pollen and seeds has been a major source of public opposition to biotech crops.

But most other diseases are the result of a more complex interaction between genes and environment.

Is reaching old age in good enough condition to enjoy it a question of genes, diet or lifestyle?

Selection for a trait, be it beak size or something else, depends on passing down the genes for that trait to offspring.

Those he uses have had some of their genes knocked out to stop them breeding in humans.

Those who could not repress appropriately were repelled from the tribe or city, and did not fare well enough to propagate their genes.

It could almost be said to be a law of physics, a principle that reigns over all created multitudes, whether they have genes or not.

The novel marker genes should be able to screen and identify transformational cells, and be friendly to environment and organisms as well.

In the search for longevity it seemed to me that this steadfastly bright disposition was even more important than good genes.

With her blonde hair and doe eyes, Lottie definitely nabbed the beauty genes from her famous sister.

The nature-nurture debate is usually about how much of something is due to our genes and how much is caused by our environment.

He said that although gene patents had been issued for decades, the patentability of genes had never been examined in court.

Circadian clock genes have popped up in all types of creatures and in many parts of the body.

He had been comparing the virus genes with human genes to see if the virus might have evolved to mimic our own proteins.

A variety of genetic and epidemiologic approaches have been used to identify etiology with candidate genes.

In the case of bacteria, which seem to exchange genes promiscuously, that seems an excellent way of looking at things.

Critics assert that this flow of genes helps to undermine any concept of species in microbes.

But those genes are not active in most cells, otherwise we would be sprouting hair all over the liver and nails from the tips of our noses.

Some of the polymer materials, for instance, insert genes into only a small percentage of cells and do not degrade in the body.

Recombination of the numerous genes which determine crop yield and quality is usually the next phase of plant breeding.

The expression of genes that inhibit cancer development, so-called tumor suppressor genes, is often lost in tumor cells.

"The timing is right to apply exome sequencing for the discovery of disease-related genes, " she said.

Monsanto has at least one of its patented genes in about 90% of all the soybeans grown in the U. S. and in about 80% of U. S. corn.

Scientists have identified multiple genes and mutations that seem to be related to ASDs, but it's more complex than just genetics.

During the history of plant breeding there has been a desire to increase the choice of genes (the gene pool) available FOR crop improvement.

His mother's brother did, too. Looking back on it, you might say the genes preordained that he would be a basketball maven.

It is a growing field trying to understand how the environment interacts with genes.

However, her analysis showed that the pattern of relationships for the mitochondrial genes was different to that of the nuclear DNA.

The children of couples with a wide range of MHC genes, and thus of immune responses, will be better protected from disease.

Verdict: Real or Fake? She may not want to be called Latina, but she should proudly credit those genes for her famous figure.

In the last few years, scientists noticed that certain genes only seem to be activated when arranged in a certain configuration.

So he introduced the genes of elephants into a cat's embryo. The result was - Phooey , a cat that was as big as an elephant!

In the early period of this century, there had been a breakthrough in synthetic genes and bioengineering became very popular.

With the help of a microarray, researchers can query the whole genome at once, rather than just a few genes at a time.

Viruses and various polymer materials have been used in efforts to insert therapeutic genes into diseased cells.

Some people may be able to blame their beer bellies at least partially on genes, a new study out of Sweden suggests.

I had been seduced by that potato, and not another, into planting its -- into spreading its genes, giving it a little bit more habitat.

Exercise and good nutrition do seem to be protective, but a person's risk is largely determined by genes.

The cell then reads the retrovirus's genes as if they were its own, and manufactures new retroviruses.

Rather than looking at a predefined set of genes, he mapped thousands of genetic markers sprinkled across the chromosomes of his subjects.

"There is no evidence that the antibiotic resistance genes used in approved GM crops pose a problem for human health, " she said.

Researchers said they would keep trying to determine when the Amerindian genes first arrived in Iceland.

Using a novel method to rank genes, they found that XOR was at the top of the list of genes that fit the profile of a fat generator.

Methylation, the addition to a base of a group of three hydrogens and a carbon atom, is one way in which genes are regulated.

"There is a phenomena in genetics and cellular development called co-expression in which two genes can be stuck together, " he said.

The first bit of this strategy is not too difficult; several resistance genes have already been found.

Every person (women and men alike) has two copies of each of these genes in most cells in her or his body.

In the Y, which originally had the same set of genes as the X, most of the X-related genes have disappeared over the last 200 million years.

Presumably, the ABL protein, like the product of many other so-called housekeeping genes, is not essential in normal signaling pathways.

There's no molecular test. There's no sequencing of genes that was referred to yesterday. There is no fancy looking at the chromosomes.

but he notes that variation in any of these genes explains only a very small percentage of variability in human behaviour.

By throwing up new mixtures of genes each generation, sex enables at least a few individuals to escape the parasitic lynch mob.

And I think it's really the scandal of the Human Genome Project. You know, we went into it thinking, 40 or 50, 000 human genes.

"Ethanol Production by Escherichia Coli Strains Co-Expressing Zymomonas PDC and ADH Genes, " said the aide, reading from a clipboard.

One of the most powerful tools that the molecular biology revolution has given us is the ability to turn genes on and off at our discretion.

In particular, genes do not seem to sit side by side on DNA like discrete beads.

But that does not address the point that the new cells have relied on the output of genes from the old one to get going in the first place.

The function of decreasing cellular TG by emodin might have the participance of other genes correlated with lipid metabolism.

But it turns out that genes from Mom and Dad do not always exert the same level of influence on the developing fetus.

The objective of this work was to clone the genes controlling these traits as a step toward elucidating the molecular basis of the traits.

They then ran those copies through DNA-sequencing machines to see how the samples' genes differed from the reference genes.

I'd like to be able to do that. First a hunk of metal; then a robot. First some wires; then a mind. First some old genes; then a dinosaur.

ESTs (Expressed Sequence Tags) are widely used for the discovery of new genes, particularly those involved in human disease processes.

Agrobacterium-mediated transformation has been used worldwide for introducing foreign genes into different potato cultivars.

The team managed to produce a range of colours by putting these genes into the Escherichia coli bacterium.

As a result of this non-Darwinian event, the superior animal and its genes would be removed from the population.

For a time, it was successful, but then evolution struck back, as natural selection favoured the spread of insecticide-resistant genes.

And of those 20 genes, there's not a single one of them that's associated with more than a few percent of all cases of autism.

Despite millennia of evolution between them, both contain the genes for the CspB protein, which helps the organism adapt to stress.

The other mutated genes seemed to be tumor suppressors, the body's natural defense against dangerous genetic mistakes.

The parents did not believe that their genes should be patented and therefore did not put their names on the patent.

We explore the role these genes might have in manipulation of the host immune system by altering the balance of steroid hormones.

They did not expect genes, viruses, or vaccines to transform their subjective suffering into an objective determination. They took over.

Gould attributed this diversity to a few master genes, which turn on and off the shared genes responsible for constructing the shells.

You may think you might have passed on bad genes or done something wrong that caused the cancer to occur.

Belgian blues are so big because their genes for a protein called myostatin, a hormone that regulates muscle growth, do not work properly.

It was more difficult for the microarray to distinguish the expression variation of less abundant genes.

Research shows that much of our predisposition towards determination, sociability and self-control and sense of purpose is in our genes.

Carmine Coppola must have had some good genes: The Italian-American composer's family tree reads like a who's who of modern American film.

Marson: One of the key next steps is to take each of these 30 genes and figure out what they're doing within the T cells.

A: First of all, I do not agree that an organism to which one or two new genes have been added is a new species.

Further research will , no doubt , be aimed towards further characterization of both Rhizobium and plant genes .

The results indicated that the genes of whole plant had already expressed at the early time of embryogenesis.

You ought to see this. Your genes are extraordinary, you know that.

In a lab, he grew cancer cells and decoded genes, trying to find ways to make cancers stop growing.

The virus was a unique combination of genes which had apparently mixed in pigs somewhere in Mexico.

We have examined the occurrence of GSTM1 null, one of the glutathione S-transferase mu genes, in a control and a Parkinson's disease group.

As they report in Cell, Dr Rando and his team found 445 genes whose expression appeared to depend strongly on the diet of the father.

Venter's team is using chemical sequencing machines to make a panoply of genes for the highly evolved parts of a modern microbe.

Other researchers, meanwhile, are trying to isolate the genes responsible for C4 plants' unusual anatomy and biochemistry.

These longevity-associated genes may even cancel out the negative effects of variants linked to disease, she said.

But like the flu jab, R genes can be rendered useless if a pathogen mutates into a slightly modified form.

To understand their experiments, we first need a crash course in genes and embryos. I'll try to make it quick.

Two of those genes seems to be relevant to cholesterol.

One of the significant contributing factors of different immune responses can be ascribed to the genetic polymorphisms of cytokine genes.

Cholesterol levels are influenced by a number of factors, from age to genes, some of which cannot be controlled at all.

Some did not do well at school, and worry that being a good student is not in their genes.

One of the ways to introduce genes into a bacterium is to introduce a plasmid into it.

The other patients with the normal, or wild-type, KRAS genes are likely to respond to these drugs, he said.

Three TPK genes have specific targets respectively, but the difference between them in PKA activity is unknown.

Heredity could play a role, too. It is possible that predispose some peopletooptimism, and that the same genes affect health and longevity.

The mutations seem to disrupt genes that are active in the developing brain and which are turned on and off in response to experience.

To do this, at least we can make fool of our genes who feels as if we had not enough money to spend.

In unisexual flowers some of the same genes are likely to be present and their expression is subject to hormonal and genetic control.

It could increase the degree to which parents share genes with offspring, enhancing the genetic representation of future generations.

The slugs accomplishment is quite a feat, and scientists aren't yet sure how the animals actually appropriate the genes they need.

A simple solution would be to switch to the Google approach -- for every base pair "word, " make a list of the genes where they appear.

Admittedly, it is possible that genes encoding gas vesicle proteins may have been obtained by strain Fryx1 through lateral gene transfer.

As a result, they were able to bridge an important gap in the understanding of what causes genes to be turned on and off.

In older skin, they found a decrease in the expression of genes involved in cholesterol and fatty acid synthesis.

When our ancestors began to imitate they let loose a new evolutionary process based not on genes but on a second replicator, memes.

These make desirable partners for a woman's own genes in her children.

One of the two ribonuclease genes in a leaf-eating monkey has adapted to a role in the digestion of bacterial RNA.

By comparing the copies, Dr. Heidmann and his colleagues were able to figure out what the original sequence of the virus's genes had been.

And why does extinction run in families and groups, as if bad genes may be responsible?

DNA makes up the genes, the master instructions of life, while RNA merely conveys those instructions to other parts of the cell.

Patents involving the two genes made Myriad the only company able to offer the costly tests.

Pairs of genes that exhibit high dependency will possibly have regulatory relationships between them.

Ellenberg and his colleagues more than doubled the number of genes that are known to be involved in mitosis, a type of cell division.

This, in turn, can be used to identify particularly active genes, which issue protein-making instructions in the form of messenger RNA.

I'm technophobia. My brother got all the genes required to understand operating manuals, to repair things, or to make sense of computers.

But every proper scientist in the lucrative field seems to agree that provided you live a healthy life, it's your genes that really count.

The regulation and transformation engineering of the smell-synthesis genes have been studied initially and a progress has also been made.

The problem is that scientists do not know enough about what specific genes do and how different genes work together.

Not all these traits are being developed by genetic engineering, because in many cases scientists do not know what genes to use.

But further research is needed to show that the resistance genes will not lead to a more infectious form of the disease.

The individual's social environment, the inherited genes and the cultural impact of the decision by his composition in various capacities.

The habits and ideology of the pure- bloods may well be a direct result of the magic genes acting through cultural evolution.

The expression of SLG and SRK genes from the treated materials was not distinctly different from that of control 8 hours after pollination.

The disabled virus, known as an adenovirus, can then be used as a vector, or carrier, of other genes that researchers insert into the virus.

"We" re looking for signatures of genes that are distinctly different than anything that "s known, " he said.

It's not that caregiving changes genes; it influences how the genes express themselves as the child grows.

Claiming she was a victim of her genes, the woman was cleared on appeal.

Of or relating to a group of genes that act in concert to produce a specific phenotype .

If the birds had been breeding, the scientists say that they would have found genetic "intermediates" - birds with genes from both species.

And the behavioral effects involve one of the same genes, neuregulin, found to be abnormal in biopsies of schizophrenic brains.

Blocking these genes using RNA molecules, known as RNA interference, could be a potential treatment for alcoholism, they say.

The bacteria exchange genes with ease so new hybrids, with unpredictable properties, could also arise, he said.

But surely something in the blood too, locked into good fortune's dominant genes like a blast ripening in a time bomb.

It is of course possible that more genes will turn up in further studies that might close the gap.

Around one in five of those studied had the required pair of ' centenarian' genes.

Originally, the thought was that whichever genes make men gay might make women more fecund , and possibly vice versa.

And one gene family that stood out in particular was a group of brain genes, which more than doubled in size in humans.

Think of it like light bulbs and their switches, where the light bulbs are genes and the switches are these controlling DNA sequences.

They will put a Gene from the bacterium into a virus. The virus itself is not dangerous. It simply carries the bacterium's Genes.

Researchers will investigate what specific genes do, and which ones might be used to develop new ways of diagnosing or treating diseases.

Question of the Day: Would you be willing to pay almost a grand to know what your genes say about your health and ancestry?

The only way this currently can be achieved is by manipulating the cell's nuclear regulatory machinery with genes using retroviruses.

Escapees from fish farms risk polluting these wild genes just as the parasitic lice that plague fish farms spread to salmon that swim free.

The patent claims that the appellate court ruled invalid involved analyzing a patient's genes to see if they had deleterious mutations.

Lee said the genes injected to make the dog glow could be substituted with genes that trigger fatal diseases.

Thus, it is possible to significantly suppress nonsense mutations within target genes using antisense PNAs.

To see if these genes came from the cause of borna disease, Dr. Lipkin transplanted them into bacteria.

Researchers typically fly blind when trying to add or modify plant genes.

Couples unable to have children might choose to have a copy of one of them rather than accept the intrusion of genes from a donor.

They were going to draw blood samples from thousands or hundreds of thousands of individuals, and find the genes responsible for disease.

It is possible that genes predispose some people to optimism, and that the same genes affect health and longevity.

Pandas possess all the requisite genes for digesting meat, but none of the genes required for digesting bamboo, Wang and colleagues found.

Gene pool The total number and variety of genes existing within a breeding population or species at a given point in time .

The Bovine Genome Sequencing Project found that the cow genome contains at least twenty -two thousand genes.

Plants are able to put more resources into growth by shutting down some defence genes.

Use genes to protect healthy cells from the side effects of therapy, allowing higher doses of chemotherapy and radiation to be given.

Among the genes are clear messages about what will happen to your body as you age, a few of which we can already read.

The jury is still out as to whether human quirks like lying are the result of genes, evolution or upbringing.

In the early 1990s, researchers studying a species of worm discovered genes for a very short and very unusual piece of RNA.

Certain versions of these genes, it has been shown, are associated with a high risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

Genes determine the characteristics of every living thing.

The investigators decided to look for additional culprits and focused on genes in the same immune response pathway that contains Factor H.

Previous studies have suggested that deletions of these genes may be linked with delayed development, autism and schizophrenia.

Although several genes involved in this process have been identified recently, the molecular mechanism is still poorly understood.

But when we look at all the genes that we can knock out one at a time , it's very unlikely that this would yield a living cell .

"This suggests that genes are the main factor and that finger length is a marker of your genes. "

Belgian blues are so big because their genes for a protein called myostatin do not work properly.

And two of the four cellular components are produced by these molecular building blocks in processes that cannot be encoded by the genes.

About half of these cases are familial, though a variety of different genes may be responsible for this disease.

Stem cell mobilization did not occur in knock out mice lacking genes for endothelial . NO synthase.

Gay couples will not preserve their own genes but they may help preserve those of the group to which they belong.

Distinct developmental defects are observed when specifically knockdown each of these two duplicated genes by corresponding MO injection.

They are trying to grow supersize salmon by tinkering with the genes for growth hormone.

From there, they were able to determine which genes the vascular cells expressed.

The involvement of several genes tends to complicate the recovery of high levels of resistance.

Genes located on these chromosomes do not assort independently of sex and are said to be sex-linked.

All genes are of avian origin, indicating that the virus had not yet acquired genes from the human influenza virus.

Under those conditions, the relative quality of male ejaculate very clearly determines whose genes are passed on to the next generation.

It is suggesting that these SNPs of genes variants with Chinese CD patients susceptibility has no correlations.

Conclusion A certain number of HNPCC families can be benefited from the genetic screening for mutation of the mismatch repair genes.

Genetic technology allows genes, and thus the proteins those genes encode, to be knocked out of individual mice.

They hitched the genes for these three factors onto a virus that infects another type of pancreatic cell, known as an exocrine cell.

I don't think we would be able to use genetics to make new drugs, because these genes can interact.

One of the genes involved in regulating this clock is known as PER3 and comes in two forms.

After CREB is switched on, it binds to a specific set of genes, triggering production of the proteins those genes encode.

Dr Milinski and Dr Wedekind also found an association between a woman's MHC genes and some of her preferences for perfume.

The researchers conjecture that aphids might have pilfered the genes from a fungus that was infecting them.

LD mapping is an effective approach to discovering novel genes and a bridge for connecting structural genomics to phenomics.

We were able to determine the sequence of nucleotides in small fragments of five influenza genes from this sample.

The relationships between TFs and their target genes can be modeled in terms of directed regulatory networks.

This powerful strategy generates libraries of repetitive genes over a wide range of molecular weights in a 'one-pot' parallel format.

If I was an enzyme, I'd be helicase so I could unzip your genes.

Up to date little was known about relationship between B. anthracis'virulence genes and their pathogenesis.

Otherwise it might be just an accumulation of the polymerase and associated genes and be like other regions of the nucleus.

Using flies, researchers might discover genes that are important for this reprogramming, and that have matches in other animals.

These genes are involved in the action of a hormone that affects almost every kind of cell in the body.

The bacteriophage's genome (entire collection of genes) enters the chromosome of the host bacterium and replicates together with it.

DNA, as a part of genes, was discovered to be a double helix that encodes the blueprints for all living things.

Six of the clock genes were suppressed by the cytokine in ways that would, in an actual animal, be expected to promote sleep.

It could be that people of different ethnic backgrounds carry distinct genes that help them live to 100, he said.

All the children in the study were adopted to rule out the possibility of sleep problems due to shared genes.

This explanation is compelling because nuclear genes do not show the same "evidence" that the mitochondrial gene does.

They produced a pair of synthetic vaccines, each containing genes from two of the four virus types.

Researchers in the United States and Europe have discovered a new batch of genes connected to the most common form of diabetes.

Subjecting January included how researchers in the State of Mississippi have identified tens of thousands of genes in catfish.