FIU biological sciences professors Heather Bracken-Grissom, Timothy Collins and Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty have been invited to join the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA), an international consortium that promotes ...
Biotechnology
Dec 19, 2013
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Since the completion of the Human Genome Project, which identified nearly 20,000 protein-coding genes, scientists have been trying to decipher the roles of those genes. A new approach developed at MIT, the Broad Institute, ...
Biotechnology
Dec 12, 2013
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What does it mean to be human? According to scientists the key lies, ultimately, in the billions of lines of genetic code that comprise the human genome. The problem, however, has been deciphering that code. But now, researchers ...
Biotechnology
Nov 10, 2013
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A new computational method has been shown to quickly assign, order and orient DNA sequencing information along entire chromosomes. The method may help overcome a major obstacle that has delayed progress in designing rapid, ...
Biotechnology
Nov 7, 2013
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Scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have identified a novel and unexpected regulatory activity of RNA at the edge of inactive chromosomal regions. In their publication in Nature Structural ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 8, 2013
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(Phys.org) —An international research team, including a University of California, Davis, plant scientist, is using the molecular magic of gene sequencing and transfer to break the stranglehold of witchweed and other parasitic ...
Biotechnology
Aug 1, 2013
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The 100K Genome Project, led by the University of California, Davis, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, and Agilent Technologies, today announced that it has added 20 newly ...
Biotechnology
Jul 23, 2013
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(Phys.org) —An Oregon State University scientist and partners borrowed some technology from the Human Genome Project to more clearly identify the genes used by a type of water mold that attacks fish and causes millions ...
Biotechnology
Jul 15, 2013
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Researchers hoping to make the next breakthrough in renewable energy now have plenty of new avenues to explore – Harvard researchers today released a massive database of more than 2 million molecules that might be useful ...
Materials Science
Jun 24, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Striking a blow at foodborne diseases, the 100K Pathogen Genome Project at the University of California, Davis, today announced that it has sequenced the genomes of its first 10 infectious microorganisms, including ...
Biotechnology
May 22, 2013
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