Medical geneticists are giving genome sequencing its first big test in the clinic by applying it to some of their most baffling cases. (scientificamerican.com)
In any given genome, there are many copies of rDNA, and Professor Rakyan and colleagues found that not all copies of the rDNA were responding epigenetically. (sciencedaily.com)
A given genome might contain anywhere from 10 million to 3 billion base pairs, and Sogin was searching for just 2,000 — «a needle in a haystack.» (discovermagazine.com)