News articles tagged with 'sequence'
Establishing standard definitions for genome sequences
— 10 Oct 2009 10:10 | BiologyIn 1996, researchers from major genome sequencing centres around the world convened on the island of Bermuda and defined a finished genome as a gapless sequence with a nucleotide error... — full story
Models begin to unravel how single DNA strands combine
— 7 Oct 2009 07:32 | BiologyUsing computer simulations, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has identified some of the pathways through which single complementary strands of DNA interact and... — full story
MSU scientist helps map potato genome, hope to improve crop yield
— 26 Sep 2009 11:54 | BiologyIt's been cultivated for at least 7,000 years and spread from South America to grow on every continent except Antarctica. Now the humble potato has had its genome sequenced... — full story
CSHL scientists develop new method to detect copy number variants using DNA sequencing technologies
— 25 Aug 2009 12:39 | BiologyA research team led by Associate Professor Jonathan Sebat, Ph.D., of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has developed a sensitive and accurate way of identifying gene copy number... — full story
NIH-funded researchers sequence exomes of 12 people
— 17 Aug 2009 12:02 | HealthIn a pioneering effort that generated massive amounts of DNA sequence data from 12 people, a team supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has demonstrated the feasibility... — full story
ISU researchers find possible treatment for spinal muscular atrophy
— 28 Jul 2009 08:45 | HealthSpinal Muscular Atrophy is the second-leading cause of infant mortality in the world. Ravindra Singh, associate professor in biomedical sciences at Iowa State University's College of... — full story
Mystery E. coli genes essential for survival of many species
— 13 Jul 2009 15:34 | HealthScientists have shown that E. coli - one of the best known and extensively studied organisms in the world - remains an enigma that may hold the key to human diseases, such as cancer... — full story
Genome sequence of a Korean individual revealed in Nature
— 8 Jul 2009 17:00 | BiologyThe genome sequence of a Korean individual is revealed in a paper published online today in journal Nature, adding further to our understanding of ethnic diversity and the individual... — full story
Mobile DNA elements in woolly mammoth genome give new clues to mammalian evolution
— 10 Jun 2009 04:27 | BiologyThe woolly mammoth died out several thousand years ago, but the genetic material they left behind is yielding new clues about the evolution of mammals. In a study published online in... — full story
A genome may reduce your carbon footprint
— 13 May 2009 10:02 | EnvironmentWith the costs of genome sequencing rapidly decreasing, and with the infrastructure now developed for almost anyone with access to a computer to cheaply store, access, and analyse sequence... — full story