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  • 2.4 Mb Genome Size for World's Biggest Virus

    ...discovered Pandoraviruses have roughly twice the size of the record-holding Megavirus genomic code. Interestingly only 6 percent of its genes resembled the genes other organisms. It is assume...

    3913 days ago

  • PhylomeDB

    ...c database for complete collections of gene phylogenies (phylomes). It allows users to interactively explore the evolutionary history of genes through the visualization of...

    3909 days ago

  • Tigers genome sequenced

    ...ded as many as 3 billion nucleotides (organic molecules that form the basic building blocks of nucleic acids, such as DNA). They identified 20,000 genes related to various functions...

    3873 days ago

  • Y-chromosome is worthless!!!

    The testis determinant factor Sry and the spermatogonial proliferation factor Eif2s3y genes of Y-chromosome play role in sex determination and performing first stage of spermatogenesis respectively. Paper: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/11/20/science.1242544

    3805 days ago

  • Edit DNA !!!

    ..., according to a March 3 story in the New York Times. Scientists hope Crispr might also be used for genomic surgery, as it were, to correct errant genes that cause disease. A rescen...

    3704 days ago

  • Genome of Rainbow Trout Sequenced

    ...duplication events were older so there are fewer duplicated genes still present. Most of the duplicated genes get lost or modified so much...can see an earlier stage in the process and many duplicated genes are still present,” sai...

    3653 days ago

  • Scientists map 17,294 proteins produced in human body

    ...enomic analysis by identifying translated proteins from annotated pseudogenes, non-coding RNAs and untransl.... https://www.proteomicsdb.org/ -Assembled protein evidence for 18,097 genes in ProteomicsDB  

    3620 days ago

  • Drawback of Exome Sequencing

    ...missed a high proportion of clinically relevant regions in the 56 ACMG genes. "At least one gene in each e...g method missed more than 90 percent of such variants in four of the 56 genes," he says. Source: http...

    3615 days ago

  • Breaking chromosomes to study cancer !!!

    ...present in every cell of our body and they contain the information the body needs to develop and function properly. This information is carried in genes that are arranged along the c...

    3569 days ago

  • You and your friend have similar DNA !!!

    ...o unrelated strangers. They found that friends shared about 1% of their genes — a percentage much hig...ected as friends than with strangers in the same population.  The genes that lined up the most were o...

    3560 days ago