Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021 The piRNA pathway is a specialized small RNA interference that in mosquitoes is mechanistically distant from analogous biology in the Drosophila model.
Vanessa M. Macias +5 more
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Should Parents Genetically Engineer their Children? [PDF]
, 2019 Imagine a world where everyone is healthy, intelligent, long living and happy. Intuitively this seems wonderful, albeit unrealistic. However, recent scientific developments in genetic engineering, namely CRISPR/Cas bring the question into public ...
Veit, Walter
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Modeling viral infectious diseases and development of antiviral therapies using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived systems [PDF]
, 2015 The recent biotechnology breakthrough of cell reprogramming and generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which has revolutionized the approaches to study the mechanisms of human diseases and to test new drugs, can be exploited to generate ...
Barzon, Luisa +6 more
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Unstandard Standardization: The Case of Biology [PDF]
, 2010 How applicable are the approaches adopted by information and communication technology standards-setting organizations to biological standards? Most engineering-based industries construct products from standard, well understood components.
Rai, Arti K.
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Partial Trajectory: The Story of the Altered Nuclear Transfer-Oocyte Assisted Reprogramming (ANT-OAR) Proposal [PDF]
, 2007 This essay aims to tell the story of the “altered nuclear transfer-oocyte assisted reprogramming,” or ANT-OAR, proposal—from its conception by Professor William Hurlbut of the President’s Council on Bioethics—to its adoption and promotion by a group of ...
Byrnes, W. Malcolm
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2D multi-objective placement algorithm for free-form components [PDF]
, 2009 This article presents a generic method to solve 2D multi-objective placement problem for free-form components. The proposed method is a relaxed placement technique combined with an hybrid algorithm based on a genetic algorithm and a separation algorithm.
Bennis, Fouad +3 more
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Plant Genetic Resources: Selected Issues from Genetic Erosion to Genetic Engineering
Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2008 Plant Genetic Resources (PGR) continue to play an important role in the development of agriculture. The following aspects receive a special consideration:1. Definition. The term was coined in 1970.
Karl Hammer, Yifru Teklu
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Social acceptance of genetic engineering technology
PLoS ONE, 2023 Genetic engineering of animals has been proposed to address societal problems, but public acceptance of the use of this technology is unclear. Previous work has shown that the source of information proposing the technology (e.g. companies, universities),
Katherine E. Koralesky +5 more
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Compatibility of Breeding Techniques in Organic Systems [PDF]
, 2017 Introduction The rapid development of genetic engineering techniques is leading to a level of genetic disruption never experienced before. In order to safeguard organic integrity and to ensure organic food will continue to meet the highest consumer ...
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System optimization by multiobjective genetic algorithms and analysis of the coupling between variables, constraints and objectives [PDF]
, 2005 This paper presents a methodology based on Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms (MOGA’s) for the design of electrical engineering systems. MOGA’s allow to optimize multiple heterogeneous criteria in complex systems, but also simplify couplings and ...
Roboam, Xavier +2 more
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