Scientists are using machine learning to identify important sequences of DNA within the mosquito genome that regulate how the insect's cells develop and behave.
Biotechnology
Jul 11, 2016
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Human cells contain 23 pairs of chromosomes that form a loosely organized cluster in the cell nucleus. When cells divide, they must first condense these chromosomes—each of which when fully extended is a thousand times ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 13, 2016
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All the tissues in the human body are made from proteins, and for every protein, there's a stretch of DNA in the human genome that "codes" for it, or describes the sequence of amino acids that will produce it.
Biotechnology
Jan 28, 2016
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For graduate student Abe Weintraub, the magic and intrigue of DNA is all in the packaging.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 27, 2015
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Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and Stanford University in the USA, have shed new light on how the variations in our molecular make-up, such as gene expression, are controlled ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 20, 2015
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It is easy to distinguish a mouse from a cow. But for members of the same class of mammal, where do such differences begin? In 2011, scientists discovered there were differences in cow and mice blastocysts, the tiny hollow ...
Biotechnology
Feb 23, 2015
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Human existence is basically circadian. Most of us wake in the morning, sleep in the evening, and eat in between. Body temperature, metabolism, and hormone levels all fluctuate throughout the day, and it is increasingly clear ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 20, 2014
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For years, scientists have considered the laboratory mouse one of the best models for researching disease in humans because of the genetic similarity between the two mammals. Now, researchers at the Stanford University School ...
Biotechnology
Nov 19, 2014
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MIT engineers have transformed the genome of the bacterium E. coli into a long-term storage device for memory. They envision that this stable, erasable, and easy-to-retrieve memory will be well suited for applications such ...
Biotechnology
Nov 13, 2014
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UCD researchers have published the first study in mycobacteria to identify genome-wide regulatory elements using comparative transcriptomics (RNA profiles).
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 6, 2014
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