Sentence examples for genetic hunt from inspiring English sources

Read Lauren Collins's October Talk of the Town story about the genetic hunt for Richard III.

Read Lauren Collins's October Talk of the Town story about the genetic hunt for Richard III. Photograph by Dan Kitwood/Getty.

Buried deep inside a cell's nucleus, a genetic switch hunted by biologists for decades has finally been identified.

The markers will be used to study ecological and genetic impacts of hunting and landscape change in this vertebrate-dispersed, insect-pollinated tree species.

Carlos D. Bustamante's hunt for genetic variations between populations should help us better understand and treat disease.

Increasingly, a type of DNA analysis known as whole exome sequencing is being used to hunt for genetic mutations that may provide clues about a patient's condition.

One of the top suspects behind killer vascular diseases is the victim of mistaken identity, according to researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, who used genetic tracing to help hunt down the real culprit.

Barnes says that her team's findings should fill in serious gaps in the hunt for genetic variations posed by Illumina's existing genotyping chip and a similar gene chip by Affymetrix Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif.

In the hunt for genetic and environmental factors responsible for allergies, a prime suspect has been interleukin-4 (IL-4); this immune system protein tells white blood cells to make IgE antibodies, which recognize foreign substances and set off an immune attack.

Over the past decade, the hunt for genetic connections with behavior as intensified.

We therefore emphasize that the hunt for genetic disease markers needs to be fine-tuned to the reality that disease-predisposing mutations with the largest effects in a given sex – those that are identifiable using modern statistical genomics approaches – are likely to contribute negligibly to disease in the other sex.