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One example of a gene that we would like to turn off is an insulin receptor gene that tells fat cells to hold on to every calorie.

The first involved a gene called DRD2 which affects how much pleasure we get from alcohol and cigarettes and other addictive substances.

Something natural, as if being on the water were beyond his control, part of a gene passed on to him from some obscure hereditary pool.

As a favored version of a gene becomes more common in a population, genomes will look increasingly alike in and around the gene.

Indeed, the only way we could assert that there was a gene in an organism was by finding a mutant allele for it.

Imaginative creativity is the gene for a thing to be an artwork. Without such a gene, a thing can be anything but an artwork.

In recent years scientists have learned that mutations in a gene called FOXP2 seem to be crucial for human speech.

If you think about it, the concept of a gene-environment also makes a great deal of sense.

He recalled that when he first heard that the office had granted a patent for a gene, "I said that can't be true. "

The mutation itself is in a gene for a nerve-cell protein of a type known as an ion channel.

For a gene to do its work, it has to be transcribed into a molecular messenger.

The team have found that blocking the action of a gene seems to make healthy cells immune to even very large doses of radiation.

In 2001 a team of British scientists announced the discovery of a gene, called FOXP2, that seems to be essential for language.

But how the transcription machinery decides which parts of a gene to read at any particular time is still largely a mystery.

It appears that she has a version of a gene that produces low-fat milk, the same gene variant that also emerged in some of her calves.

By adding a gene from another plant into the target plant, scientists are able to develop a plant that produces more of a desired nutrient.

When scientists examined the pair's DNA, they found a mutation in a gene called DEC2, which governs cell production and circadian rhythm.

To assess gene expression in each small bit of tissue, researchers expose its RNA to a gene chip, or DNA microarray.

New versions of a gene can also become universal in a population through a random process known as genetic drift.

"You can transfect a gene into a fibroblast, " he said.

A partial tandem duplication is a type of gene mutation that occurs when a section of a gene is repeated, like a stutter in the gene's DNA.

Suppose most of them are sensitive to insecticide, but a few harbor a version of a gene that confers resistance.

They had exposed animals to the virus and got them to fatten up and even found a a gene in the virus that causes animals to get obese.

Scientists at Lund University in Sweden have found a gene that appears to lie behind many of the most severe urinary tract infections.

The genetic change, known as a partial tandem duplication, is located in a gene called MLL (for mixed-lineage leukemia).

If you think back to the genetics you learned in school, this pattern makes no sense. A gene is a gene.

They discovered that when cancer cells are fed tamoxifen, they sometimes respond by elevating expression of a gene known as AKT.

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

The scientists say that this red-haired sensitivity to pain stems from the actions of a gene called MC1R.

Both experiments bore out his idea of a gene for gender.

But no one had found a gene that regulated self-renewal in fetal but not adult hematopoietic stem cells.

The underlying cause may be a twist in a gene, or a tiny hormonal imbalance that cannot be detected with current technology.

The search led to the identification of mutations in a gene that encodes for a trabecular meshwork protein (TIGR).

What's more, it would appear that people with a certain version of a gene called AVPR1 are more altruistic than the average.

The five piglets, born on Christmas Day, lack a gene for an enzyme that adds a sugar to the surface of pig cells.

Whatever investing mistake you have committed lately, there is probably a gene that is often associated with that behavior.

But one naturally occurring AHR-2 variant, the result of a gene mutation, proves a very poor mate, Wirgin's team has found.

Babies acquire their gut flora as they pass down the birth canal and take a gene-filled gulp of their mother's vaginal and faecal flora.

Most East Asians also have a special form of a gene known as ABCC11, which makes the cells of the ear produce dry earwax.

Methylation is an epigenetic modification to one's DNA that changes a gene's activity, generally reducing that activity within the genome.

The senquence carrying the code for the production of a polypeptide is called a gene.

His tests revealed differences in one site located in a gene for a hormone receptor that may be active in learning and memory.

One of the best-studied examples of a gene linked to brain size in humans and other animals is ASPM.

After 100 generations of breeding, a mutation led to one of them evolving a "gene" instructing it to move forward.

The present invention relates to a gene engineered bacteria, and its preparation method and uses, belongs to biological engineering field.

The more RNA messengers that have been transcribed from a gene, the more active that gene is assumed to be.

She believes it may just be possible that humans occasionally pinch a gene or two from bacteria or fungi.

One of the most famous examples is the spread of a gene that allows adults to digest milk.

The company used an adeno-associated virus (AAV) to deliver a gene with the aim of suppressing inflammation.

It multiplies a gene with liner phase relating to the number of pulse by the frequency region reference function of range compression.

Biochemists may skillfully create intricate molecules and substances, as the synthesis of the substance that is called a gene .

Because adenovirus as a gene transfer has many advantages, now it has been widely used in gene therapy.

Transduction with a gene of the lymphokines renders the immune cells more effective against tumour either in vivo or in vitro.

Blood tests showed the women harbored a mutation in a gene named DEC2 that's involved in regulation of circadian rhythms, the body's clock.

After all, what is a more logical base instinct for a gene than to ensure its own reproduction?

Virus resistance is achieved through the introduction of a gene from certain viruses which cause disease in plants.

But it does mean that talk of a "gene for dyslexia" , or genetic screening for personality or ability, is seriously misguided.

They adapted the six-month-old's DNA to see if a gene could be introduced harmlessly into an animal's genetic sequence.

The location of a gene (e. g. a developmental gene which has been mutated) on a chromosome can be identified using the technique of mapping.

Popping a gene into a tomato is not going to solve these problems, it is argued.

The German researchers took samples of cells from inside the mouths of 101 young men and women and tested them for a gene called COMT.

Believe it or not there is a gene pool of plastic DNA that we engineered to be the fittest and strongest in our little magical kingdom.

When King had begun her search in the mid-1970s, few believed such a gene existed.

A segment of a gene situated between axons that does not function in coding for protein synthesis.

But observing what goes wrong when a gene is missing is easier than learning to orchestrate differentiation in a culture dish.

Conclusions Lentivirus vectors have more advantages as a gene transferring (gene conduction) system than adenovirus vectors.

Cell death is a gene-controlled form of programmed death, is closely related with oral mucosa carcinogenesis.

The most promising is PLX4032, a molecule which blocks the action of the protein produced by a specific mutation of a gene called B-RAF.

biochemists may skillfully create intricate molecules and substances , as in the synthesis of the substance that is called a gene.

This image from a gene chip shows the activity of thousands of genes from tissue taken from a section of the hippocampus.

The new scheme replaces the fuse with seven colonies of Escherichia coli bacteria, each given a gene for a different fluorescent protein.

Scientists from the US and Finland recently published research showing the discovery of a gene linked to premature births.

One example of such a gene is lactase, which helps people digest milk.

Dr Hebert proposed part of a gene called cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) as suitable to the task. All animals have it.

The memes took a gene machine and turned it into a meme machine.

Roche's vemurafenib attacks advanced melanoma by blocking the mutated form of a gene, B-RAF.

For couples who have not had a child with albinism, there is no simple test to determine whether a person carries a gene for albinism.

In [the Middle East] one family alone may be enough to definitively localise a gene.

Researchers blame one form of the disease on a mutation in a gene called retinal pigment epithelium 65 (RPE65).

You can't see, taste or touch a gene inserted into a plant or sense its effects on the environment.

Scientists reported yesterday the discovery of a gene that increases the chances of becoming hooked on the drug.

The phylogeographic approach is fundamentally graphical and begins with a gene-tree estimate.

A male contraceptive pill could be a step closer after US researchers identified a gene flaw linked to male infertility.

Genetic analysis of the accuracy of the process implicates a gene not previously thought to be involved.

This and other data was used to argue that what determines whether an individual will get depression is a gene-environment interaction.

Like a gene in the Cambrian seas of the early Web, information was copied and recopied endlessly.

The findings showed patients in the Indian subcontinent had a significant presence of a gene called NDM-1.

The second report links susceptibility to SLE with increased expression of a gene in the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) superfamily .

By borrowing a gene from fluorescent jellyfish and inserting it into the DNA of worms or mice in the lab, scientists have made neurons glow.

What makes a gene a gene for some phenotype or other is an extragenetic quality.

By borrowing a gene from fluorescent jellyfish and inserting it into the DNA of worms or mice in the lab, scientists have made neurons glow.

What makes a gene a gene for some phenotype or other is an extragenetic quality.

Researchers found that a particular variant in a gene linked to fat metabolism may help fight flab around the middle.

A new GM cotton variety that uses a gene from cowpea could overcome the problem, as the gene is expressed throughout the crops' growth.

Others have created skin-tissue cultures that glow colour fully under ultraviolet light by splicing in a gene from a species of coral.

Scientists have found that a crop with a gene that kills pests can leave a poison in the soil that kills helpful as well as harmful insects.

They then armed it with a gene encoding a protein called GM-CSF, which triggers an immune attack against cancer cells.

One of the newest methods relies on a gene that makes algae sensitive to light.

Researchers studying a group of people with an average age of 97 found they had all inherited a gene that appears to prevent cells ageing.

A gene that influences vasopressin determines how doggedly males will latch on to a lucky female.

And would knowledge of such a gene make right what Scripture clearly says is wrong?

Using yeast cells, the team there devised synthetic circuits via a gene-regulated communication method employed naturally by the cells.

Scientists engineered mosquitoes to carry a gene that prevents the malaria parasite from infecting them.

The mutation is an increased number of CTG repeats in a gene called DMPK.

A gene for producing acetylsalicylic acid, better known as aspirin, would help to prevent heart attacks and blood clots.

These deletions or duplications, also called copy-number changes, can change the dosage of a gene.

We've found a gene related to sudden cardiac death.

Moreover, the utility of a gene depends on circumstances.

Specific primer PCR was a gene cloning technique with high efficiency, stability and accuracy.

But first, Mister Venter said, they had to de-activate a gene in the receiving cell that would have killed the synthetic genome.

But first, Mister Venter said, they had to de-activate a gene in the receiving cell that would have killed the synthetic genome.

However, vitamin E did not provide a protective effect among people who have a gene that is linked to a higher risk for the disease.

They measured this chemical change in a gene that often becomes highly methylated in breast cancer.

Researchers believe redheads are more sensitive to pain because of a mutation in a gene that affects hair color.

Reducing gene expression turns down the activity of a gene .

British scientists say they have found a gene that could better predict the development of childhood asthma.

This was when a gene called SFT, which produces a protein called florigen, mutated.

They inserted a gene for a light-activated algal protein into mice brains, where it entered nerve cells.

They report finding a gene that since (sends) the itch signal of (up) the spinal cord to the brain.

In 1991, his laboratory discovered that duplicate copies of a gene caused some cases of CMT, but not his own.

In 1991, his laboratory discovered that duplicate copies of a gene caused some cases of CMT, but not his own.

For instance, if human artificially block a gene expression in pollen development, male sterility may be caused.

Approximately 5% of the world's population are healthy carriers of a gene for sickle-cell disease or thalassaemia.

Every few hours, they collected the mussels' genetic material and spread it on a gene chip to figure out which genes were active, and when.

Dr Marrelli and Dr Li are part of a group which has already discovered a gene that protects mosquitoes from malaria.

However, the production of TG is controlled by an enzyme that is, in turn, encoded by a gene called UGT2B17.

It's equivalent [to] finding a gene involved in cancer or other genetic disorders.

Dr Ostrander's work showed that in dogs it is caused by the reactivation of a "dead" version of a gene involved in the regulation of growth.

Meanwhile, a gene called MSTN encodes a protein called myostatin, which limits rather than enhances muscle development.

What determines the recombination rate of a gene?

What determines the recombination rate of a gene?

A key thing is the effect of the major violence genes, like the MAO-A gene.

The results confirm that a gene known as "fruitless" is a key factor underlying sexual differences in behavior.

So, from a biologist's point of view, compassion is actually a gene's way of helping itself. Okay.

These had a gene added to interfere with the biological causes of leaf loss during drought.

The researchers injected them with a gene that produces a green glow of light.

The molecule blocked a gene that codes for a receptor for GABA, a brain signaling molecule.

This interpretation sent a quantitative traits because it would be essentially impossible to isolate a gene responsible for the trait.

In a new study, people with alterations in a gene called9p21 had an increased risk of having a heart attack.

A gene comprises the set of instructions needed to make a single protein.

A gene comprises the set of instructions needed to make a single protein.

In any one person, if there is an error in a gene, that same mistake will appear in all the cells that contain the same gene.

Why isn't every person who carries a gene for disease suffering at all times from that disease?

Now they think they know why . They identified a gene in roundworms that directly links calorie restriction to longer lifespan .

Many facts make known, a specie, a strain and even a gene wholly probably are the fountainheads that country economy is prosperous.

Ultimately, the team reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, they discovered two separate mutations in a gene called SH3TC2.

What you get when you insert a gene is an organism that has one new trait.

A gene can explain why some women find it more difficult to stop smoking during pregnancy, say UK researchers.

Break, usher in the energy of the cosmos, then can activate a gene, the everyone happiness, the everyone health.

US researchers are testing inserting a gene into the muscle that can cause it to produce protective antibodies against HIV.

US researchers are testing inserting a gene into the muscle that can cause it to produce protective antibodies against HIV.

The scientists found that nicotine administration to mice induces the expression of a gene called type 2 ryanodine receptor (RyR2).

A study done in Harvard Medical School has discovered a gene called CatSper that affects sperm mobility and fertilization.

Clinical trials are underway in HIV patients of zinc-finger nucleases that remove a gene that allows the virus to enter immune cells.

Researchers have already used it to home in on a gene for age related macular degeneration.

We predicted that A gene was more tolerant to heat stress than B gene.

In the experiment, researchers "silenced" a gene called zpg needed for males to produce healthy sperm cells.

In them, a variant version of a gene called DCT may contribute to light skin.

Q. Is there a test to see if a parent is carrying a gene that causes autism?

The results show that testosterone and estrogen have opposite effects on a gene nicknamed RORA.

The results show that testosterone and estrogen have opposite effects on a gene nicknamed RORA.

Finally, he has added a gene that causes overproduction of another protein, follistatin. This binds to myostatin and renders it inoperative.

A tiny mutation in a gene common to mammals may have changed the destiny of humanity.

Disrupt a gene that regulates serotonin, a neurotransmitter that's also been implicated in depression.

A gene expression programming algorithm embedded with estimation of distribution algorithms, LPGEP, is proposed here.

Resveratol, naturally found in red wine, stimulates a gene known as SIRT1, which has been linked with extended lifespans in rodents.

It contains a gene from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) which makes crops resistant to the devastating shoot borer pest.

This time meet Belgian Blue Cattle which is famous for their double muscling due to a gene that suppresses the production of Myostatin.

That is what has happened to a group of mice genetically engineered to alter the action of a gene called Cpe.

A gene associated with the formation of age-related cataract, a leading cause of blindness, has been identified by scientists.

A gene associated with the formation of age-related cataract, a leading cause of blindness, has been identified by scientists.

Pfizer's crizotinib attacks a protein encoded by a gene found in fewer than 5% of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer.

A gene is a string of molecules known as nucleotides, much as a word is a sequence of letters.

Dr Szyf and his team looked at a gene that codes for ribosomal RNA, which helps control the manufacture of proteins.

In genetic engineering, multiple identical copies of a gene are produced in cloning vectors, such as plasmids and phages . See gene cloning.

This research does not suggest that there is a gene for osteoarthritis.

Recently, a gene encoding a Si uptake transporter in rice, a typical Si-accumulating plant, was isolated.

We have him a gene therapy that allows the brain to create its own cells, in order to repair itself.

Cancer. Japanese scientists have found that overeating can switch off a gene that combats cancer.

Hawks says the classic example is a mutation in a gene that makes red blood cells.

Cancer. Japanese scientists have found that overeating can switch off a gene that combats cancer.

Hawks says the classic example is a mutation in a gene that makes red blood cells.

To do this, they took a gene engineered to change color in the presence of hydrogen peroxide and inserted it into zebrafish embryos.

At a crucial junction in this process lies a gene called SOX9, which in males is switched on by SRY, causing testis development.

All kinds of genes storing life information prompt the evolvement of life through a complex network system, a gene regulatory network.

Such women carry a version of a gene called CYP2D6 that makes tamoxifen work better.

The above analysis suggested that Yunnan province is a distribution center as well as a gene center of Eriobotrya in China.

Second, the right to equality is a gene based on genetic information carried in equal rights.

They found that a day after the shock, methyl groups were being removed from a gene called calcineurin and added to another gene.

As a leaf aged, activity of a gene called EIN2 increased and suppressed miR164.

As a leaf aged, activity of a gene called EIN2 increased and suppressed miR164.

A gene that gives one crop an advantage is identified, isolated, and added to another crop.

Perhaps via a gene that codes for potassium channels in dopamine nerves, a recent study suggests.

Each one lacked a gene coding for a particular MDR protein.

A striking example is resistance to infection by HIV, which is determined in part by multiple copies of a gene called CCL3L1.

A locus is the "location" of a gene along a chromosome.

The researchers examined a gene called K13 that activates a pathway previously implicated in cancer development.

A gene map is the descriptive representation of the structure of a single gene.

The new building will also house a gene therapy pharmacy and business development space.

First, they'll shoot troops up using a "gene gun, " that's filled with DNA-based vaccines.

First, they'll shoot troops up using a "gene gun, " that's filled with DNA-based vaccines.

Well past studies have shown that mutations in a gene called DISC1 are linked to schizophrenia.

Scientists in Australia said they have identified a gene which may explain why some people are transsexuals .

More than 10 years ago, scientists discovered that mutations in a gene called BRCA1 lead to a particularly deadly type of breast cancer.

Here, we review the advance in the research of retroviral vector in the hemophilia A gene therapy.

ER gene has been suggested as a gene for regulation of bone mineral density (BMD).

To date, insect resistance has been provided by a gene from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).

What is more, this lack of attention, the researchers discovered, had chemically altered a gene controlling an important stress hormone.

In addition, the research team used C. elegans as a model system to identify a gene that regulates sleep.

These processes introduce errors and mean that a gene has to be sequenced several times to ensure a reliable result.

Large drug companies and small biotechs are jumping in, starting to test drugs that attack a gene rather than a tumor type.

If a gene is defective, it could produce the wrong protein and cause something in your body not to work properly.

NP2 is a gene transfer vector that expresses the naturally-occurring opioid peptide enkephalin.

Instead, it pins the "returning soldier effect" on a gene expressed by men only.

This is still a long way from developing a gene therapy approach that works in humans, but it's a start.

In the May 29th issue of Cell, scientists report discovering a gene that controls fruit flies' sensitivity to ethanol.

This is the first identification of a gene that increases susceptibility to cerebral palsy.

LONDON (Reuters) - Researchers have identified a gene linked to hair loss that could lead to new drugs to treat baldness.

They targeted a gene called IPK1, which ties up phosphorus in a form that animals can't digest.

The opposite relationship was found for a gene called CYP2A6.

Early nurturing regulates the expression of a gene that is crucial to modulating the stress response.

Science et Medicine: A gene responsible for aging processes was found.

A gene is a piece of DNA that encodes a protein molecule.

Finally, he has added a gene that causes overproduction of another protein, follistatin.

Scientists have discovered a gene that doubles the risk of some women developing breast cancer.

A gene that allows cancer to spread into the brain has been identified by US scientists.

A gene can be delivered to a cell using a carrier, such as a virus.

A replica of a DNA sequence, such as a gene, produced by genetic engineering.

A gene linked to premature births has been discovered, scientists in the US and Finland have said.

The cluster can silence a gene it attaches to; when the cluster is removed, the gene is active again.

Scientists have identified a gene that affects our ability to cope when the going gets tough.

A gene is the basic unit of heredity in a living organism.

The team then discovered that a gene alteration stopped a sensory cell on the bugs' antennae from detecting the chemical.

"Sexuality is not determined by a gene which we are bornwith, " she says.

Objective: A gene called deleted in colon cancer (DCC) has been identified on a region of chromosome 18.

For instance, many primates cannot make vitamin C, because of a gene mutation.

The researchers focused on BAK, a gene that controls cell death.

One example of this is variation in LCT, a gene involved in the metabolism of lactose, a sugar found in milk.

A possible mechanism for the generation of B*2730 is a gene conversion event.

Most mammals have a gene that makes an enzyme called uricase that breaks down uric acid, but humans lack the ability.

The NDM-1 is a gene that produces an enzyme that deactivate basically all antibiotics.

A gene. No longer in technical usage.

This is a way of modifying how easily a gene can be read.

Kelsoe's work focused on a gene called GRK3, which influences the brain's sensitivity to chemical messages brain cells send each other.

The UCSD researchers also studied mice that were missing a tumor suppressor gene, which is a gene that acts to prevent cell growth.

Imagine a new mutation arising in a gene.

Half of the mice lacked a gene that is needed to make adenosine receptors, which are dotted along major nerves.

Scientists have discovered that a gene already known to treble your odds of living to 100 may also ward off Alzheimer's disease.

Here, too, it is a gene defect that causes the molecules to misbehave.

Beutler's mouse carried a mutation in a gene called UNC93B.