Sentence examples for changing the genes from inspiring English sources

Critics say changing the genes of animals could lead to potentially harmful changes in the composition of milk or meat, like the introduction of a protein that could cause allergic reactions.

Among the scariest prospects have been recombinant DNA research ("gene splicing"), cross-species genetic engineering (mixing human DNA into animals), genetically modified crops (known derisively as "Frankenfoods"), genetic enhancement (inserting supposedly desirable genes into embryos) and germ line gene therapy (changing the genes in the egg or sperm).

Danielle said: "We are not changing the genes, we are just selecting the embryos without a cancer gene.

Changing the genes on the DNA or inserting new ones, at least for eukaryotes, is not very different from taking a piano score by Mozart and adding new chords.

Church has said that, in theory, this could be done by changing the genes of a human stem cell (in the case of a Neanderthal) or an elephant (in the case of the mammoth) to match a prehistoric relative.

Technology evolves at a dazzling speed, and nowhere more so than in the field of genetic engineering, where the possibility of directly changing the genes of one's children is quickly becoming a reality.

Liu's base editors directly convert a single base into another, changing the gene from the mutated to the corrected form.

The Balkans conflict, the breakup of the Soviet Union, the migration of Africans and the fact that some soccer players settle in countries where their skills took them are changing the gene pool of international sports — not simply of soccer.

The Balkans conflict, the breakup of the Soviet empire, the migration of Africans and the fact that some soccer players themselves settle in countries where their skills took them, are changing the gene pool of international sports — not simply of soccer.

Disease liability can also be affected by epigenetic (environmental and social) modifications that alter gene expression without changing the gene's DNA sequence (Foroud, Edenberg, and Crabbe 2010; Krishnan et al. 2014).

In the top left panel, all cells in a parent organism initially contain a gene that specifies white coloration marked W (A). A random mutation occurs in the germline, changing the gene from one that specifies white to one that specifies gray marked G (B).