News tagged with genome project
Study dusts sugar coating off little-known regulation in cells
In Alzheimer's disease, brain neurons become clogged with tangled proteins. Scientists suspect these tangles arise partly due to malfunctions in a little-known regulatory system within cells. Now, researchers have dramatically ...
Apr 16, 2012 |
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Reference Genome of Maize Published (w/ Podcast)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists culminated today in publication of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science reveal ...
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Researchers looking at a rare disease make breakthrough that could benefit everyone
By working with Canadians of French ancestry who suffer a rare genetic disease, researchers have discovered how three genes contribute to abnormal growth, making a breakthrough that will improve our understanding of many ...
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Whole-Genome sequencing simulated on supercomputers
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Human Genome Project paved the way for genomics, the study of an organism's genome. Personalized genomics can establish the relationship between DNA sequence variations among individuals ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Finding variants in the human genome: HapMap 3 points the way forward for human genetics studies
New findings show the value of genetic studies across human populations and the value of the latest DNA sequencing technologies to interrogate genetic variation. The results, from the latest phase of the international HapMap ...
Sep 01, 2010 |
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Scientists map all mammalian gene interactions
In one of the first efforts of its kind, UCLA researchers have taken mammalian genome maps, including human maps, one step further by showing not just the order in which genes fall in the genome but which ...
Aug 09, 2010 |
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Scientists post lower speed limit for cell-signaling protein assembly
The apparently random self-assembly of molecular threads into the proteins that make the body work is far less frantic than previously thought, Michigan State University scientists say. That discovery could ...
Jul 29, 2010 |
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'Science' article has implications for all rapidly developing fields
Global climate change and other fast-developing scientific fields can take a cue from a prolonged process that eventually led to a workable compromise regarding the release of new data by human genome researchers.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 22, 2010 |
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Using fish to illuminate the architecture of inherited disease
A research team led by scientists from the Duke University Medical Center has developed a way to simultaneously look at the effects of 125 mutations occurring on 14 different genes. They used zebrafish as a model to analyze ...
May 24, 2010 |
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Personalized medicine for cancer patients in a new technology era
Published online today in Nature, a paper authored by over 200 members of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) describes the beginnings of a Brave New World, a new era of personalised medicine for cancer patien ...
Apr 14, 2010 |
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Genome at 10: Scientists urge patience for medical breakthroughs
The genome has yet to deliver on promises it would usher in a golden age of medicine, experts say in a debate unleashed by the looming anniversary of the first draft of the human genetic code.
Apr 01, 2010 |
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Five new human genomes decoded, marking a transition to more personalized medicine
It seems longer, but it was only seven years ago that the Human Genome Project deciphered the sequence of the 3 billion nucleotides that make up a single human blueprint or genome. That project cost more than $3 billion and ...
Mar 12, 2010 |
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Scientists map out regulatory regions of genome, hot spots for diabetes genes
Together with colleagues in Barcelona, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have generated a complete map of the areas of the genome that control which genes are "turned on" or "off." The discovery, ...
Feb 02, 2010 |
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Software reveals the inner workings of the human genome
(PhysOrg.com) -- A biologist and computer scientist seek sites of RNA editing, a phenomenon that plays a key role in human genetic complexity.
Jan 12, 2010 |
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Scientists crack gene code of common cancers
Two common forms of cancer have been genetically mapped for the first time, British scientists announced, in a major breakthrough in understanding the diseases.
Dec 17, 2009 |
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