Sentence examples for genes that work from inspiring English sources

In yeast, for example, he and his colleagues identified 68 genes that work together to build cell walls.

Last month, Lu's lab reported a different approach to combating resistant bacteria by identifying combinations of genes that work together to make bacteria more susceptible to antibiotics.

Elizabeth Speliotes, a genetic epidemiologist at the University of Michigan and senior author, said: "Looking at obesity, we didn't necessarily expect to see genes that work in the brain.

By inactivating two genes that work to suppress tumors, they got mouse muscle cells to revert to a younger state, start dividing and help repair tissue.

These are not characters from a Damon Runyon story but a crew of genes that work together to switch other genes on and off.

Rather than focus on individual genes, the researchers used a type of analysis that creates a network of genes that work together to hasten cognitive decline or accumulation of brain pathologies.

That single-celled creature had already evolved clusters of genes that worked together to do particular jobs, like dividing cells or resisting stress.

Some people, however, had versions of genes that worked better in that new situation - dealt better with those new foods - and carriers of those genes had more surviving children.

Dr. Chris Doe, a professor of biology at the University of Oregon who specializes in the genetics of the fruit fly, or drosophila, noted that evolution is conservative: a gene that works in one creature is likely to be found in others, and so a version of a gene discovered in the fruit fly or zebra fish may well be found in humans.

And to the scientists, growers and juice processors at a meeting convened by Minute Maid in Miami in early 2010, he insisted that just finding a gene that worked had to be his company's priority.

"Finding that one single element within a gene that worked for all the clones was an absolute high," Sambanthamurthi says.