Kosan is using genetic engineering techniques to steal the blueprints that nature uses to make antibiotics.
Professor Uerpmann said the estimates of time using genetic data were "very rough".
This super-extremophile, using genetic instructions from a few different microbes, would create a complex a molecule called Acetyl Coenzyme-A, or Acetyl Co-A for short.
The creature was evolved in a genetic algorithm using genetic programming trees as the control systems to manipulate servo motors at each body joint.
That will be the next step: using genetic tests and other methods of separating those patients who will be helped from those who will not.
But she is now using genetic science as a preventative weapon.
Drug companies are moving toward using genetic science to select patients early on in the trial process who are likely to benefit from so-called personalized medicines.
Henry Amerson, also at North Carolina State University, is using genetic markers too, this time to breed fungal resistance into southern pines such as the loblolly.
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That focused the search still further and the team was then able to employ more modern methods using genetic markers to show which small fraction of chromosome 16 the apomixis genes inhabit.
The main advantage of using genetic markers is that it speeds up old-fashioned breeding methods, because you no longer have to wait for the tree to grow up to see if it has the desired traits.
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Its invocation would provide crusading NGOs, bloggers and activist journalists with an unchecked justification for rejecting almost any processed food, especially those made using genetic modification or where trace chemicals can be found in food packaging.
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So, I chatted with them, and in the course of things brought up the Genographic Project, which aims, using genetic mutations as signposts, to map human migration from our origins in Africa to all the places we live today.
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At first Amgen tried using genetic engineering to create organisms that would extract oil from shale, man-made proteins that would make chickens grow faster and new specialty chemicals such as a cloned indigo, a substitute for the natural dye used to color blue jeans.
Dr. LEE RYBECK LYND (Professor of Engineering, Adjunct Professor of Biology, Dartmouth College): In my lab, one of the big ideas we're working on, is to try to develop microorganisms using genetic engineering, that let us do, in one step, what we're now only able to do in more than one step.
It is here where the business of using this genetic information to direct living processes is carried out.
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Using these genetic profiles, transplant doctors should be able to assess the best way to suppress the immune system.
Or more precisely, to rewrite DNA one unit at a time, using this genetic data to make proteins-to-order, which in turn would define entire living cells.
Or more precisely, to rewrite DNA one unit at a time, using this genetic data to make proteins to order, which in turn would define entire living cells.
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Using new genetic techniques such as molecular mapping, they have located a set of genes on one chromosome that appears to control the process in a grass species called Tripsacum.
The FBI had traced the anthrax used in the attacks to the lab using a new genetic technology, a U.S. official familiar with the investigation said.
"Seven out of 10 studies looking at this problem, using the latest genetic fingerprinting techniques, find a significant association between the MAP strain found in cattle and Crohn's disease, " he said.
Using an ingenious genetic tracing technique, in 2001 two members of Buck's research team, Zhihua Zou and Lisa Horowitz , did something that had seemed impossible: They discovered a map in the olfactory cortex.
They studied the nerve cells that regulate appetite using a 'genetic fate mapping' technique and found that some cells added neurons to the appetite-regulating circuitry of the mouse brain after birth and into adulthood.
More quietly, it presented genetic studies using Affymetrix DNA chips that tried to identify why some patients were helped and others weren't.
In January, a team of American and Israeli scientists showed they could reconstruct the identity of people from supposedly anonymous genetic samples using readily available databases on the Internet.
What we learn from these areas is precisely how evolution has acted to sculpt bodies, but it still does so using randomly-generated genetic variation and good old natural selection (and yes, Larry Moran, genetic drift also plays a role).
These kits are intended to let unskilled people hone in on a genetic target and amplify it using a PCR machine.
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The study's genetic analysis was carried out using conventional chemical techniques, which make it possible to spot the presence of two or three genes in a particular sample.
Using DNA sequencing and other techniques, they obtained genetic profiles from as many as nine places in one sample from the original tumor and three from sites where the tumor had spread, or metastasized.
Meanwhile, Jillian Shapiro of Mount Sinai Medical School figured out away to get another new type of genetic material, called microRNA, into cells using viruses.
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