How to use in-sentence of “silencing”:
+ Post-transcriptional gene silencing is done by blocking or destroying the mRNA of a particular gene.
+ Methods of gene silencing also protect the organism’s genome from transposons and viruses.
+ The committee asked for an extension of the Defence of India act of 1915 The act gave the Viceroy’s government with great power, that included silencing the press, including detaining the political activists without trial, arrest without warrant of any individual suspected of treason.
+ Both transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene silencing are used to regulate genes.
+ Fire and Mello found that dsRNA was much more effective in gene silencing than the previously described method of RNA interference with single-stranded RNA.
+ Gene silencing thus may be part of an ancient immune system protecting cells from such infectious DNA and RNA.
+ The positive impact of reform was seriously undermined in 1919 by the Rowlatt Act, named after the recommendations made the previous year to the Imperial Legislative Council by the Rowlatt Commission, which had been appointed to investigate “seditious conspiracy.” The Rowlatt Act, also known as the Black Act, vested the Viceroy’s government with extraordinary powers to quell sedition by silencing the press, detaining political activists without trial, and arresting any individuals suspected of sedition or treason without a warrant.