News tagged with gene sequencing
Oxford Nanopore announces groundbreaking GridION and MinION gene sequencers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford University spinoff company, Oxford Nonopore has announced at this year’s Advances in Genome Biology and Technology conference in Florida, two new machines for sequencing genes. ...
Feb 20, 2012 |
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'Dark matter' of the genome revealed through analysis of 29 mammals
An international team of researchers has discovered the vast majority of the so-called "dark matter" in the human genome, by means of a sweeping comparison of 29 mammalian genomes. The team, led by scientists from the Broad ...
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Three periods of innovation in gene regulation occurred during the evolution of vertebrate animals: study
Over the past 530 million years, the vertebrate lineage branched out from a primitive jawless fish wriggling through Cambrian seas to encompass all the diverse forms of fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. Now ...
Aug 18, 2011 |
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Selaginella genome adds piece to plant evolutionary puzzle
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Purdue University-led sequencing of the Selaginella moellendorffii (spikemoss) genome - the first for a non-seed vascular plant - is expected to give scientists a better understanding of how ...
May 05, 2011 |
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Scientists observe single gene activity in living cells
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have for the first time observed the activity of a single gene in living cells. In an unprecedented study, published in the April 22 online edition ...
Apr 21, 2011 |
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New genetic study helps to solve Darwin's mystery about the ancient evolution of flowering plants
(PhysOrg.com) -- The evolution and diversification of the more than 300,000 living species of flowering plants may have been "jump started" much earlier than previously calculated, a new study indicates. According ...
Apr 10, 2011 |
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Scientists construct synthetic proteins that sustain life
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a groundbreaking achievement that could help scientists "build" new biological systems, Princeton University scientists have constructed for the first time artificial proteins that enable ...
Jan 06, 2011 |
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To prevent inbreeding, flowering plants have evolved multiple genes, research reveals
A research team led by Teh-hui Kao, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State University, in collaboration with a team lead by Professor Seiji Takayama at the Nara Institute of Science ...
Nov 04, 2010 |
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Researchers sequence genome of mosquito that spreads West Nile virus
Last year, 720 people in the United States became infected with West Nile virus, a potentially serious illness that is spread through the bite of a mosquito - the Culex mosquito - that has first fed on inf ...
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Complete Neanderthal genome yields insights into human evolution and evidence of interbreeding
After extracting ancient DNA from the 40,000-year-old bones of Neanderthals, scientists have obtained a draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome, yielding important new insights into the evolution of modern ...
May 06, 2010 |
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Microbes found in natural asphalt lake
(PhysOrg.com) -- A lake of natural hot liquid asphalt in Trinidad and Tobago has been found to be teeming with microbes despite the toxic environment. The lake, aptly named Pitch Lake (since pitch is the old ...
Apr 21, 2010 |
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New hand bacteria study holds promise for forensics identification
Forensic scientists may soon have a valuable new item in their toolkits -- a way to identify individuals using unique, telltale types of hand bacteria left behind on objects like keyboards and computer mice, ...
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Sequencing genome of entire family reveals parents give kids fewer gene mutations than was thought
Researchers at the University of Utah and other institutions have sequenced for the first time the entire genome of a family, enabling them to accurately estimate the average rate at which parents pass genetic mutations to ...
Mar 10, 2010 |
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What drives our genes? Researchers map the first complete human epigenome
Although the human genome sequence faithfully lists (almost) every single DNA base of the roughly 3 billion bases that make up a human genome, it doesn't tell biologists much about how its function is regulated. Now, researchers ...
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Jumping genes, gene loss and genome dark matter
In research published today by Nature, an international team describes the finest map of changes to the structure of human genomes and a resource they have developed for researchers worldwide to look at the ...
Oct 07, 2009 |
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