Ejemplos de uso de mutant gene
1. Scientists had just pegged a Dutch family‘s multi–generational history of fistfights and run–ins with the law to that mutant gene.
2. But in their extreme form, the results can look like untidy snippets of mutant gene code or meaningless debris from some Martian game of Scrabble.
3. His owner, Tiffani Kjeldergaard, 40, of Potrero, San Diego, explained: "Munchkins are a breed that have the same mutant gene as little people.
4. Cardiovascular specialists in Boston have found that a version of a gene, called NKX2.5 or the Tin Man gene (named after the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, who had no heart), can cause problems in the development of heart walls in both mice and humans. ‘But not everyone who has the mutant gene gets heart problems,‘ said Dr Nadia Rosenthal, of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Monterotondo, Italy. ‘Some other factor must be involved, possibly involving another mutant gene, and mouse genetics should help pinpoint it.‘ The crucial factor, added Rosenthal, is that genes clearly interact inside the body. ‘No gene is an island.
5. From their populations of Black Sixes, EuroMouse scientists will take embryos, delete or modify one of the genes in them, and then put the genetically engineered embryos back into mice wombs to create a new population, one that has a single mutant gene inside each member.