Sentence examples for alter the gene from inspiring English sources

As such, enhanced estrogen production in the adipose tissue of obese subjects could potentially stimulate an altered ASC phenotype to secrete an abundance of leptin to alter the gene expression profile of breast cancer cells.

The nucleotide diversity in either the TATA-box or Inr element in Arabidopsis ecotypes proposes that the nucleotide variation in core promoters can alter the gene expression.

The study, published online in the journal Protein & Cell, details how the researchers used the genome-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 on "non-viable" embryos in an attempt to alter the gene responsible for a potentially lethal blood disorder.

"When you alter the gene expression in any organism you get a lot of changes that you can't predict," Schubert told VICE News.

Gene expression levels were not adjusted for possible batch effects as algorithms that attempt to adjust for batch effects also alter the gene expression distribution.

To confirm that CovR can regulate SMU.1882 promoter at a non-native locus, we used a transcriptional reporter fusion for analysis to avoid any cis-effect that may alter the gene expression.

Even Zhang, who published the first report on using TALEs to alter the genes of mammals, realized that the system was little more than an interim measure.

'I am sure there is some rogue laboratory, somewhere in the world, that is already trying to alter the genes of an athlete scheduled to compete at the next Olympics,' says Lee Sweeney.

Biologists routinely alter the genes of mice, with methods that are not yet acceptable for making inheritable changes in people, but one day genetic engineers may figure out how to apply safe patches to the human biological software.

It will also make it possible to alter the genes of plants so that they can resist various diseases (without introducing the DNA of a foreign organism, which is how G.M.O.s are made).

It would authorise germ line therapy... to alter the genes of an individual.