Spotlight on Genomics: Understanding Our Genes - A Step to Personalized Medicine
...director for stem cell research at the UCSD Moores Cancer Center, speak about the future of personalized medicine in which genomics, the study of genes and their function, is applie...3902 days ago
How Genes are Regulated: Transcription Factors
...ach cell in our body inherits the same master copy of DNA, but different cell types use it differently. Transcription Factors help influence which genes are used in which cell. Under...3892 days ago
RNA interference (RNAi): by Nature Video
...t process, used by many different organisms to regulate the activity of genes. This animation explains how...We take you on an audio-visual journey, diving into a cell to show how genes are transcribed to make messe...3890 days ago
Demo 4: Using BLAST/BLAT in Ensembl
We demonstrate the BLAST/BLAT tool in Ensembl. Search for a sequence in Ensembl, and identify hits to the genome, or to genes, with this tool.3887 days ago
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Genetics, epigenetics and disease
...e, but its significance is still not fully understood. While most human genes have been identified, there i...loss of a protein that reads methylated CG and affects the activity of genes. The Royal Society GlaxoSmit...3870 days ago
CIRM Spotlight on Genomics | A Step to Personalized Medicine
...nerative Medicine governing board on January 17th, 2012, provides a glimpse into a future of personalized medicine in which genomics, the study of genes and their function, is applie...3860 days ago
Microbiome - Making better use of bacteria
Bacterial cells outnumber human cells 10-to-1 in the average person. Bacterial genes outnumber human genes 100-to-1. Mayo Clinic and the Center for Individualized Medicine are working to unders...3853 days ago
If your genes revealed you would get a disease, would you want to know?
A massive, groundbreaking new study underway at Kaiser Permanente and the University of California San Francisco may shed light one day on the genetic roots of disease...3837 days ago
The Cat: evolution, domestication and Genome 10k
...African forest elephants, and Bornean clouded leopards. He is credited with the discovery of CCR5 delta 32, the first of 20 human AIDS restriction genes, which imparts natural immuni...3826 days ago