Right now there is an enormous amount of research being conducted to correlate specific genes with specific characteristics.
By looking at the specific genes involved in a particular disease, drugmakers hope to design chemicals that attack disease more exactly.
To figure out why, they employed a more systematic approach, activating two specific genes called NOTCH and AKT in the mice.
Mello, working at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, was looking for a way to turn off specific genes so he could understand their function.
And while the specific genes involved are yet to be identified, these findings have implications for understanding the behaviours of more complex creatures - such as humans.
And the BRCA gene tests are not medicine: they are a diagnostic test that reads your DNA and tells you if you have harmful mutations in two specific genes.
And the rush to identify which genes provide which characteristics in the human body is on, meaning we could one day be able to inject specific genes into an embryo to achieve a desired result.
By looking backwards at the slides, and forward at the results and outcomes, they were able to identify 21 specific genes that correlate with the risk of recurrence, and whether a patient is likely to benefit from chemotherapy.
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Zinc fingers, so named because they contain a zinc atom and are shaped like an index finger, can turn specific genes off or on or to some point in between, delete genes altogether or add new genetic material.
While antismoking campaigns which focus on teens may be useful, an important aim is to determine the ways in which these specific genes influence progression to begin smoking, and to further evaluate whether medications currently on the market which reduce cigarette cravings have any influence on these high risk genes.
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The physicians refuse to be more specific about what genes are involved and what happens inside the cytochromes.
The doctors refuse to be more specific about what genes are involved and what happens inside the cytochromes.
Diadexus scans the database for those few genes specific to one type of cancer, but not found in healthy tissue or other diseases.
Twenty years from now your doctor may no longer treat lung cancer per se, instead aiming at a few culprit genes that cause your specific variant.
Gene therapy attempted to transport altered genes into the body to help fight specific diseases.
"Pregnancy causes it, but beyond that, the specific problem between the fetus and mother, and the genes from the father and so forth ... is not completely clear, " Martin said.
Genetic tests enable scientists to pinpoint genes that can make an individual susceptible to a specific disease.
The genes that set a person up for getting bipolar disorder are only somewhat specific for bipolar disorder per se.
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