Sentence examples for by borrowing a gene from inspiring English sources
Scientists said that by borrowing a gene from the E. coli bacteria, they had genetically engineered rice to withstand drought, salt water and cold.
A common European weed has turned its compact flower into an expansive, yellow-petalled blossom by borrowing a couple of genes from a close Italian relative.
Methods: To create the new neural switch, researchers borrowed a gene from a lake-dwelling microörganism; the gene codes for a light-sensitive protein that pumps chloride ions.
In particular, an empirical Bayes procedure is used to moderate the degree of overdispersion across genes by borrowing information between genes.
New methods for performance comparison are introduced by borrowing ideas from gene set enrichment analysis and by applying concepts from algorithmic complexity.
Based on the existing information about the structure of operons, we propose a hierarchical Bayesian model which improves gene expression estimation by borrowing information from genes within the same operon.
It turns out that Monocercomonoides has come up with a workaround by borrowing some bacterial genes that perform the same function, the scientists reveal online today in Current Biology.
The higher power is yielded by borrowing information across genes to produce a better expression variance estimator.
A linear model was fitted to the data using "lmFit", and "eBayes" provided a correction of variation by borrowing information across genes.
We may, in turn, have adapted to Eurasian conditions by borrowing genes from these "locals". Everyone except sub-Saharan Africans carry a small quantity of Neanderthal DNA that includes traits possibly important for survival in Eurasian environments — immune-system and skin-pigmentation genes, among others.
