Sentence examples for spur the expression from inspiring English sources
Chemicals in smoke known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, also created when fossil fuels are burned, spur the expression in the eggs of a gene called "bax".
Just as folding a flat sheet of paper can transform it into a crane or lotus flower, researchers have come to realize that a complex pattern of loops and folds helps bring particular genes into direct contact with distant stretches of DNA that regulate those genes' activity, spurring the gene expression that makes a bone, muscle, or brain cell or fuels a cancer.
Removing that selection pressure might, in principle, spur the loss of imprinted expression at a locus, although this possibility hasn't been explored in great theoretical detail (but see Wilkins and Haig, 2002).
Traits that leave bodies vulnerable to disease spur the imagination.
The conduct of many trials for the successful production of large quantities of pure proteins for structural biology and biotechnology applications, particularly of active, authentically processed enzymes, large eukaryotic multi-subunit complexes and membrane proteins, has spurred the development of recombinant expression systems.
The development of RNA interference as a therapeutic tool to silence gene expression has spurred the search for novel and improved pharmaceutical properties for medicinal purposes (reviewed by Rettig and Behlke).
Finally, the new observations regarding the control by cAMP of initiation and elongation of Bim transcript may spur new studies on the expression of this important gene.
This spurs the smugglers on.
That almost always spurs the laggards.
Something clearly spurred the Heat early.
