Sentences with phrase «about the genome in»

Then they move about the genome in search of disease trigger points.

Not exact matches

A former health care investment analyst with a degree in biology from Yale University and current CEO of the company, Wojcicki is fascinated by the mysteries of the genome and what it can reveal about the human body.

According to the journal Nature, in 2008 the cost of sequencing a person's genome was about $ 10 million; today the expense hovers around $ 1,000, and that price is expected to continue to drop.

«My hope is that the Materials Genome will accelerate innovation in just about every industry America competes in.»

Lots of people talk about the promise of using genetics in pharma R&D, says Jeff Reid, Regeneron's chief of genome bioinformatics, «but they don't have a vision for sample flow.»

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A human - chimp comparison revealed some 35 million mutations in the single units of the overall sequence and also found about 5 million additions to or subtractions from the genome involving chunks of DNA sequence.

Regarding «Junk DNA,» yes, previous assumptions about the role of non-coding DNA have been replaced with an appreciation for other roles in regulation of coding regions, but this simply doesn't support the notion that our genomes were intelligently designed.

As one of the contributing researchers said: «To me the most remarkable thing about our syntheticcell is that its genome was designed in the computer and brought to life through chemical synthesis, without using any pieces of natural DNA.»

With the advances in knowledge that are almost certain to be gained from the Human Genome Initiative — or, if its critics should win the day and it lose support, from more piecemeal genetic - research — we will know more and - more about genetic factors causally related to health and disease and to other important aspects of life, such as intelligence and emotional states.

This is in essence, the sort of argument to which we incline most readily when we worry about recent advances in the study and manipulation of genes and about the implications of the Human Genome Initiative.

I just think it's really odd... when I was in school we were talking about all the wonders that will come from mapping the human genome... but I don't recall the term microbiome being mentioned a single time..

In a research paper published in April last year, Chinese scientists described how they were able to manipulate the genomes of human embryos for the first time, which raised ethical concerns about the new frontier in sciencIn a research paper published in April last year, Chinese scientists described how they were able to manipulate the genomes of human embryos for the first time, which raised ethical concerns about the new frontier in sciencin April last year, Chinese scientists described how they were able to manipulate the genomes of human embryos for the first time, which raised ethical concerns about the new frontier in sciencin science.

In 2014, biologists published an avian tree based on the sequences of whole genomes of about 40 species.

In February, researchers published the first ancient American human genome, sequencing DNA from the remains of a boy known as Anzick - 1, who was buried about 12,600 years ago in what is now western MontanIn February, researchers published the first ancient American human genome, sequencing DNA from the remains of a boy known as Anzick - 1, who was buried about 12,600 years ago in what is now western Montanin what is now western Montana.

Well, a review article in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine talks about how knowledge of a patient's genome is allowing doctors to pick the best drug for that patient, along with dosage and duration of treatment.

But when researchers first sequenced a small section of DNA in 2010 — a section that covered about 1.9 percent of the genome — they were able to tell that the specimen was neither.

The resulting backcrossed plants and information about their genomes, «shows a way forward for improving chickpeas and many other crops too,» says von Wettberg, a professor in UVM's Department of Plant and Soil Science.

To find out more about how they manage to survive, Brandon Briggs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and Frederick Colwell at Oregon State University in Corvallis have sequenced and compared genomes belonging to one particular class of deep life — Firmicutes bacteria — sampled 21, 40 and 554 metres below the floor of the Andaman Sea, west of Thailand.

In addition to sequencing the woolly mammoth genome, Hendrik has reconstructed the diets of extinct giant sloths, debunked a hypothesis about the origin of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sequenced the genome of the bacterium that caused Black Death.

The researchers also asked nine factual questions about genome editing and found sharp differences in support for both treatment and enhancement based on knowledge.

Chan's big idea — born in his dorm room at Harvard Medical School — was to build a machine that could decode an entire human genome in about 30 minutes.

Real research scripts about editing the human genome are now appearing in scientific and medical journals.

Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia who advises the US government on reproductive technologies, is sceptical about the idea of making virus - resistant people, because anyone modified in this way would only be able to conceive children naturally with a partner whose genome had been altered in exactly the same way.

The work, funded by the US National Human Genome Research Institute, aims to create human cell lines with subtly different genomes in order to test ideas about which mutations cause disease and how.

In a recent Science paper, his team estimated that the average healthy genome contains about 100 gene - disabling mutations.

Researchers were examining the genomes of these mammoths for a separate study into mammoth population genetics when they noticed that their dead remains skewed male: About 70 % of those caught in natural traps carried a Y chromosome.

In this month's issue of Genome Research, Elizabeth Stewart and her colleagues at Stanford University present this new map, which places about 8000 landmarks along the genome's 3 billion bases — DNA's building blocks — yielding twice the resolution of gene maps currently in usIn this month's issue of Genome Research, Elizabeth Stewart and her colleagues at Stanford University present this new map, which places about 8000 landmarks along the genome's 3 billion bases — DNA's building blocks — yielding twice the resolution of gene maps currently iGenome Research, Elizabeth Stewart and her colleagues at Stanford University present this new map, which places about 8000 landmarks along the genome's 3 billion bases — DNA's building blocks — yielding twice the resolution of gene maps currently igenome's 3 billion bases — DNA's building blocks — yielding twice the resolution of gene maps currently in usin use.

But despite the carefully crafted allusion to the Human Genome Project, which garnered about $ 3 billion in financial support from government and industry, GP - write, for now, doesn't have any money to offer researchers.

Readers will have at their fingertips key articles in the history of science from the late 19th through the early 21st centuries, including research about the human genome, breast and colon cancer genes, and the Bose - Einstein condensate in physics.

Researchers were able to determine the genome of stomach bacteria that infected the famous Iceman at the time of his death, in the process giving us clues about ancient human migrations.

Fussenegger thinks that genome editing will be the favoured approach for therapies, but that writing genomes from scratch will appeal to scientists interested in fundamental questions about how genomes evolve, for instance.

Afterward, a technician from the main hospital in the Faroes squirted about 2 milligrams of blood into a special tube with buffers to purify and stabilize his DNA, so that it could be sent to a laboratory to sequence the 3 billion letters that make up the code of his genome.

Nathan Pearson: He was really curious to know about his Parkinson's - like symptoms, so we looked pretty closely in his genome for that kind of stuff.

In the end, Venter says, his team built, designed, and tested «multiple hundreds» of constructs before settling on Syn 3.0, with a genome about half the size of Syn 1.0's.

Commenting on the survey results, David Lipman, director of the US National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland, says that the worries about data handling and analysis were an issue even in the earliest discussions of the genome project.

While Jarvis and Genome 10K were deciding which avian genomes to sequence, with Jarvis making sure the list included vocal learners and species believed to be their close relatives, they learned about another collaboration in the works led by Guojie Zhang of Chinese sequencing giant BGI and University of Copenhagen evolutionary biologist Tom Gilbert.

Many of the variants in his genome are about how the brain processes dopamine.

The 18 islands of the Faroes lie in a tight cluster between Iceland and Scotland and are just about the last place in the world you might imagine for a genome revolution.

He was fascinated by a talk one of his engineering professors gave about high - performance computing in the Human Genome Project, and he began to see other connections between biology and engineering.

To figure out what's really happening within an organism — or within a particular organ or cell — researchers are linking the genome with large - scale data about the output of those genes at specific times, in specific places, in response to specific environmental pressures.

«The DNA sequence itself tells us very little about how cells actual decodes the DNA, and to understand this we need to map out which cell components are present in different parts of the genome at a specific time.

Many people have concerns about the possible use of genome editing in humans, for example, about the risks of unintended effects due to off target DNA alterations, and the implications of making irreversible changes that will be passed on to future generations.

In ancestors of cypress and yew trees, genome duplication occurred about 275 million to 210 million years ago, Michael Barker of the University of Arizona and colleagues calculate.

While policy - level discussions about the regulations of genome - edited organisms are slowly taking place around the world, according to Dr. Ishii, his study will serve as a basis for the conversation with regulatory agencies in the world as well as the Japanese Ministry of the Environment.

But getting a DNA sample from a bone means drilling a hole in it, and archaeologists were not about to let geneticists go to work on the deteriorating human skeletons without some guarantee of a genome.

It's important to understand how networks function because, as Watts puts it, «that has relevance to just about every question we're interested in, whether we're talking about the spread of epidemics, or changes in social norms, or fashions, or the expression of the genome.»

About 2 per cent of many people's genomes today is made up of Neanderthal DNA, a result of interbreeding between the two species that can be seen in everyone except people from sub-Saharan Africa.

Imprinting means that in some places along the human genome — about 100 genes in all — the way DNA behaves depends on which parent passes it to the offspring.

In a collaborative study published online today in Nature Genetics, researchers from the Genome Centre of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), BGI, and other institutes present a cucumber genomic variation map that includes about 3.6 million variants revealed by deep resequencing of 115 cucumbers worldwidIn a collaborative study published online today in Nature Genetics, researchers from the Genome Centre of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), BGI, and other institutes present a cucumber genomic variation map that includes about 3.6 million variants revealed by deep resequencing of 115 cucumbers worldwidin Nature Genetics, researchers from the Genome Centre of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), BGI, and other institutes present a cucumber genomic variation map that includes about 3.6 million variants revealed by deep resequencing of 115 cucumbers worldwide.