Follow this link to skip to
the main content   Text Size  Dolores Beasley Headquarters,
Washington (Phone: 202/358-1753)  Victoria Steiner Ames Research
Center, Moffett Field, Calif. (Phone: 650/604-0176)  Oct. 22,
2004 RELEASE : 04-352 NASA Helps Find Lifelong Gene Activity in
Live Organisms NASA scientists and their academic colleagues are
providing valuable insights into how DNA encodes instructions
for control of basic biological functions. Their research may
change the understanding of human diseases.  Scientists at
NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., worked in
collaboration with scientists from Yale University, Columbia
University, and the University of Amsterdam. They discovered
genes that change during the development of a living organism at
every major stage of its life cycle.  The scientists produced a
unique map of gene expression for the common fruit fly
(Drosophila melanogaster), an organism widely used by
researchers to study diseases. NASA us