News tagged with human genetic blueprint
New database for vital model organism launched
A new database promises to be an invaluable resource to scientists who use a unique single-celled fungus to study human diseases.
Nov 28, 2011 |
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Mouse genetic blueprint developed
Researchers have developed a valuable mouse genetic blueprint that will accelerate future research and understanding of human genetics. The international team, led by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger ...
Sep 14, 2011 |
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A 'jumping gene's' preferred targets may influence genome evolution
The human genome shares several peculiarities with the DNA of just about every other plant and animal. Our genetic blueprint contains numerous entities known as transposons, or "jumping genes," which have the ability to move ...
Sep 06, 2011 |
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New level of genetic diversity in human RNA sequences uncovered
A detailed comparison of DNA and RNA in human cells has uncovered a surprising number of cases where the corresponding sequences are not, as has long been assumed, identical. The RNA-DNA differences generate proteins that ...
May 19, 2011 |
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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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Inherited risk factors increase odds of developing childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have identified inherited variations in two genes that account for 37 percent of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), including a gene that may help predict drug ...
Aug 16, 2009 |
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