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A great many people were opposed to gene therapy in terms of ethics.
A black panther can be a jaguar or leopard, but in either case it has a gene that causes it to produce more melanin than other specimens.
Tom has a rare gene mutation.
Some diseases are caused by a defective gene.
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They indicate that you are positive for a mutation in the BRCA1 gene.
You're perfectly healthy, but, yes, you do have a gene mutation that increases your risk of getting breast cancer over the course of your life.
I see that you kept your promise, Gene.
Isabel, I remember the last drink Gene ever had.
I shouldn't be surprised. If your notion's right, I'm glad Gene broke the fiddle.
I want to look at that automobile carriage of yours, Gene. - Fanny, you'll catch cold.
What's wrong with it, Gene?
All we've got to depend on is Gene Morgan's broken down.
Gene, what's this I hear about someone else opening up another horseless carriage shop, somewhere - out in the suburbs?
So your devilish machines are going to ruin all your old friends, eh Gene?
Fanny's right, Gene.
Gene, crack open the safe and get out some of that good bourbon.
You remember Gene Krupa from the show.
Hey, Gene!
If your notion's right, I'm glad Gene broke the fiddle.
I want to look at that automobile carriage of yours, Gene. - Fanny, you'll catch cold. - I want to ride in that thing tomorrow, want to see if it's safe.
All we've got to depend on is Gene Morgan's broken down. - She'll go.
Gene Krupa there!
When I start playing jazz with Louis Armstrong and Gene Krupa, I'm lucky if I come in third, isn't that right?
He's no Gene Tunney.
I paid Milton Berle, and Gene Kelly, too, and.
Because I'd like to be in a musical comedy starring Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly.
Gene Kelly.
Gene home?
Dan roughnecked with Gene Farrow.
I wondered a lot of times what would've happened if my Dan had made the strikes that Gene made.
Eugenio Martinez, known as Gene Valdez.
Now back to Gene Krupa's syncopated style shortly.
Can you hear me, Gene?
Gene, wake up!
What's wrong with Gene?
Tell Gene she will not remember.
Gene, you will not remember.
Gene, do you think I could start helping some of your other kids?
News and current affairs
Gene flow is ubiquitous.
All crop plants have relatives somewhere, and some gene flow commonly occurs if the two populations are grown close together.
Gene flow from wild relatives to crop plants may even be encouraged by subsistence farmers to maintain the broad genetic base of the varieties that they plant using seed harvested from an earlier crop.
Such gene flow does not occur when farmers buy their seeds from seed producers, of course, but in that case gene flow in the other direction is still possible, with genes from the cultivated crop ending up in the wild relative.
That is most likely if genes from the crop confer a selective advantage on the recipient, an occurrence that is uncommon with gene-splicing, where most often the added gene places the recipient at a natural di sadvantage.
The worst-case scenario would be gene transfer from plants engineered for enhanced resistance to certain herbicides.
Once the gene has been transferred to the wild relative, there will be a strong selection pressure to maintain it there if the same herbicide is used, making the weedy wild relatives more difficult to control.
Gene transfer is an age-old concern for farmers.
Gene-spliced plants have for several years been grown worldwide on more than 100 million acres annually.
More than two-thirds of processed foods in the US contain ingredients derived from gene-spliced organisms.
Thus, both theory and experience confirm the extraordinary predictability and safety of gene-splicing technology and its products.
Reprogenetics, by contrast, is concerned with the question of what genes an individual child will receive, not with the vague, unscientific goal of improving a society's gene pool.
Indeed, the risk of Alzheimer's doubles if a parent or sibling has it, probably due in large part to the presence of the ApoE gene.
And, as with humans who mix only with their close relatives, the political gene pool weakens.
PALO ALTO - A group of multi-national European scientists has used gene-splicing techniques to create an extraordinary tomato.
By using gene-splicing techniques to introduce the two genes that express these enzymes, the pathway is restored and the rice grains accumulate therapeutic amounts of beta-carotene.
Who decides which child will get the HIV resistance gene and who will be born susceptible to AIDS?
Less evidently, there are plants in the rain forest whose gene pool might be useful to us.
The majority of phenotypes are, however, the product of complex multi-gene interaction, environment, and lifestyle choices.
Today's new technologies enable health to be identified in terms of patterns of gene expression, protein production, and metabolic response.
But policies of gene selection that may reduce the burden of disease border on the nightmare of eugenic controls.
Indeed, individuals could have similar traits but very different gene sequences.
Among the most interesting challenges in evolutionary biology is the attempt to identify the molecular mechanisms of gene expression that drive morphological evolution.
A second kind of comparison focused on so-called paralogous proteins, which are descended from a common ancestor within the same creature as a result of gene duplications.
Occasionally, however, a slightly modified gene product proves adaptively advantageous, and a new protein is born.
But every gene in a genome is not an entirely new construct, and not all protein sequences are possible--otherwise, the number of different sequences would be vastly greater than the number of atoms in the Universe.
In recent years, the International Olympic Committee and other sports organizations have worried about the possible misuse of gene-transfer technology.
This is a misrepresentation of how gene transfer would alter humans, both therapeutically and non-therapeutically, should it ever be legalized.