Gene regulation gives the cell control over structure and function, and is the basis for cellular differentiation, morphogenesis and the versatility and adaptability of any organism.

Gene regulation may also serve as a substrate for evolutionary change, since control of the timing, location, and amount of gene expression can have a profound effect on the functions ( actions ) of the gene in a cell or in a multicellular organism.

* Gene regulation

Gene silencing is a general term describing epigenetic processes of gene regulation.

Gene regulation of the lac operon was the first genetic regulatory mechanism to be elucidated and is one of the foremost examples of prokaryotic gene regulation.

* Gene expression ( DNA elements, LCRs, insulators, enhancers, silencers, broad perspectives on gene regulation )

Amdahl's law, also known as Amdahl's argument, is named after computer architect Gene Amdahl, and is used to find the maximum expected improvement to an overall system when only part of the system is improved.

Credit for organizing the backbone about 1983 is commonly attributed to Gene " Spaf " Spafford, although it is also claimed by Mark Horton.

Why this should have happened is, to me, the most profound mystery facing modern biology " Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene.

Gene Ahern's The Squirrel Cage ( January 3, 1937 ), an example of a topper ( comic strip ) | topper strip which is better remembered than the strip it accompanied, Ahern's Room and Board ( comic strip ) | Room and Board.

Within the Anglican communion there are openly gay clergy, for example, Gene Robinson is an openly gay Bishop in the US Episcopal Church.

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

Johnny Green, head of music at MGM at the time, described him as follows :" Gene is easygoing as long as you know exactly what you are doing when you're working with him.

He isn't cruel but he is tough, and if Gene believed in something he didn't care who he was talking to, whether it was Louis B. Mayer or the gatekeeper.

Gene therapy targeting the reproductive cells — so-called " Germ line Gene Therapy "— is very controversial and is unlikely to be developed in the near future.

Eugene Allen " Gene " Hackman ( born January 30, 1930 ) is a retired American actor and novelist.

Gene lived briefly in Storm Lake, Iowa and his sophomore home room photograph is in the 1945 Storm Lake High School " Breeze " year-book.

Gene therapy is the use of DNA as a pharmaceutical agent to treat disease.

* Gene therapy is a crucial plot element in the video game Metal Gear Solid, where it has been used to illegally enhance the battle capabilities of soldiers within the US military, and their Next Generation Special Forces units.

* Gene therapy plays a recurring role in the present-time sci-fi television program ReGenesis, where it is used to cure various diseases, enhance athletic performance and produce vast profits for bio-tech corporations.

* Gene therapy is the basis for the plot line of the film I Am Legend.

* Gene therapy is an important plot key in the game Bioshock where the game contents refer to plasmids and splicers.

Gene therapy is being developed that would allow for weeks or months long effect, supporting erections.

She is one of the few dancers or actresses who has danced with Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Rudolf Nureyev.

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

Gene silencing techniques revealed that enoyl-CoA isomerase is essential in HCV RNA replication, and opened ways to stop HCV infection on an intracellular level.

In 2005, Gene Weingarten from The Washington Post was sent a gift of a first edition Barnaby book as an incentive for Watterson's cooperation.

Gene therapy may be used for treating, or even curing, genetic and acquired diseases like cancer and AIDS by using normal genes to supplement or replace defective genes or to bolster a normal function such as immunity.

Gene therapy faces many obstacles before it can become a practical approach for treating disease.

The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes.

In 1970, he made another TV special: Gene Kelly and 50 Girls and was invited to bring the show to Las Vegas, Nevada, which he duly did for an eight-week stint – on condition he be paid more than any artist had hitherto been paid there.

In 1972 Friedmann and Roblin authored a paper in Science titled " Gene therapy for human genetic disease?

In May 2006 a team of scientists led by Dr. Luigi Naldini and Dr. Brian Brown from the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy ( HSR-TIGET ) in Milan, Italy reported a breakthrough for gene therapy in which they developed a way to prevent the immune system from rejecting a newly delivered gene.

* Gene therapy for color blindness

Torrence ( with Gene Brownell ) won a Grammy Award for " Album Cover of the Year ", for the group Pollution in 1973.

In 1972, Ashcroft ran for a Congressional seat in southwest Missouri in the Republican primary election, narrowly losing to Gene Taylor.

Other disciples continued Mies's architectural language for years, notably Gene Summers, David Haid, Myron Goldsmith, Jacques Brownson, and other architects at the firms of C. F.

Gene Hackman portrays Lex Luthor in the 1978 Superman film, along with two of its sequels, Superman II ( 1980 ) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ( 1987 ).

The word meme is a shortening ( modeled on gene ) of mimeme ( from Ancient Greek μίμημα mīmēma, " something imitated ", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, " to imitate ", from μῖμος mimos " mime ") and it was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.

Moench continued for a long tenure, though the title did not again receive the same level of acclaim as the Gulacy period until Gene Day, who had previously been inking the book, took over penciling in # 100 ( 1981 ).

Even the flagship Paramount building in Times Square was sold to raise cash, as was KTLA ( sold to Gene Autry in 1964 for a then-phenomenal $ 12. 5 million ).