Bioinformatics -- Understanding of living systems through information science
Recently, the progress of the Human Genome Project, aiming to decode all human DNA sequences, has highlighted a re...genome. But the amount of information involved is huge, so recently, it's been read...3919 days ago
The Story of You: ENCODE and the human genome
Ever since a monk called Mendel started breeding pea plants we've been learning about our genomes. In 1953, Watson...e ENCODE project, as it's called, is the latest chapter in the story of you. To read...3909 days ago
DNA is packaged in a chromosome experiment
For more information, log on to- http://shomusbiology.weebly....in cores.[1] This structure is often compared to thread wrapped around a spool.[2] N...tone octamers surrounded by approximately 200 base pairs of DNA) were proposed by Roge...3879 days ago
Genome + Epigenome = New Understanding of the Pathogens in Your Food
UC Davis's Bart Weimer describes foodborne pathogens and their proclivity for rapid ge...thogen Genome Project he leads is using PacBio long-read sequencing to close genomes a...yze methylation; Weimer reports that his team has already...3875 days ago
Genetics, epigenetics and disease
Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Prize Lecture given by Professo...bed an unusually short DNA sequence, just two base pairs long, CG, which occurs in se...Rett syndrome is caused by loss of a protein that reads methylated CG and affects the...3875 days ago
Memories Can Be Passed Down Through DNA
The premise of Assassin's Creed is the reliving of other people's memories stored inside DNA. Well scientists have...ce to explain how this process works, and if it might apply to humans as well. Read...3650 days ago
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