If they do, he said, this would help researchers isolate the gene quickly.

Sure enough, the researchers then isolated another enzyme, which they named lachrymatory- factor synthase.

And it wasn't until 1932 that researchers isolated the vitamin itself.

That the researchers arbitrarily isolated a system and tried to make it work is salutary.

The first real breakthrough in understanding cystic fibrosis came last year, when, after a long competition, researchers finally isolated the gene responsible for the disease.

In the laboratory study, the researchers isolated the virus that causes acquired immune deficency syndrome from two people with the disease.

In the three-year study period, the researchers isolated the virus in the blood of 31 of the men.

Next, researchers can not clearly isolate what causes what given the very dynamic combination of people and institutions and individuals' development.

And once researchers isolate the gene and analyze its workings, they should get leads to developing better treatment, he said.

In particular, the researchers are isolating the genes that allow certain disease-causing bacteria to work.