Sentences with phrase «about the genome of»

Identifying genetic modifications underlying wheat's domestication requires knowledge about the genome of its allo - tetraploid progenitor, wild emmer (T. turgidum ssp.

John McDowell of Virginia Tech worte an invited Commentary in the prestigious journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, comparing findings about the genomes of plant pathogens.

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.

That's about a tenth of the cost of current genome sequencing technology.

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.

I found this article about these guys at the Tel Aviv University that made the genome of the model of wheat, the same grain I used and just made a light bulb light up and I just contacted them and within a few days I had several kilograms of this material, we just started to process and eventually is this beer that we're drinking.

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.»

They built up the synthetic genome from 1078 units of approximately 1000 base pairs, assembling them into larger and larger units by a factor of ten each time, until they created the complete genome of about 1.08 million base pairs after three such stages.

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.

Tell me, would you say you cant have communication without intelligence... then how about the genome and the communication of DNA from one generation to the next, this is more complicated than any computer created by man.

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.

So as kids explore the interactive features of the exhibit, like building their own dinosaur or exploring computerized genome projects, they'll pick up some knowledge about DNA, species extinction and more.

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 science.

There was an ancient paradigm about the «fitness cost of antibiotic resistance,» but the emergence of the new technologies of high - throughput sequencing has changed the field, allowing researchers to study bacterial pathogenesis at the genome scale,» said Dr. David Skurnik, senior author of a new Bioessays article.

By analyzing the genome of a tiny fetal mummy known as Ata, researchers have learned more about what led to its strange - looking deformities — and that Ata was not an it, but a she.

As such, the genome holds much less influence about longevity than expected and our results help to explain why [genome studies] of longevity have failed to find a reliable signal so far,» noted Erlich.

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 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.

«The idea that each human genome contains information about the history of its ancestors» population size has been known theoretically, but we have never had the data or methods to pull out that information until now,» says John Novembre of the University of California, Los Angeles.

The group also compared the cat genome with those of other mammals — including a tiger, cow, dog and human — to understand more about the genetics of cat biology.

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.

«Sequencing the genomes of individual breast cancers now costs about $ 2,000, and the cost continues to fall.

About a year into this job, a proposal to the European Commission for a European genome mapping project, coordinated by ICRF, was successful, and I became responsible for the day - to - day running of this project.

Perhaps strangest of all are the self - replicating, viruslike pieces of DNA that infected ancient humans and still make up about 8 percent of our genome.

Earlier surveys of Americans (here and here) have found a reluctance to support human genome editing, with many respondents expressing ethical and other concerns about such intentional tinkering.

A decade ago biologists and nonbiologists alike gushed with optimism about the medical promise of the $ 3 - billion Human Genome Project.

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.

is a remarkable feat that tells us much about the organization of the genomes of complex creatures.

Soon after, physicians approached Church about using CRISPR to alter the genomes of pigs so their organs would not be rejected by the human immune system.

But everything we're learning from the human and animal genome projects, about the conservation of neurochemistries and the neuroanatomies, all of this points me to the conclusion that we are learning about ourselves when we study these little critters.»

To some degree it is probably not specific to Jews; it's probably [a] reflection of an attitude that may be gulped into the genome about strangers, about foreigners, about eccentrics.

And genes make up only about 2 percent of the entire genome.

Over the past decade, this estimate has been revised upwards to about 0.5 per cent, but even that is a very small sliver of the genome.

About 3.5 percent of our genome consists of non-protein-coding DNA that we share with mice and rats but whose function is not known.

The most intriguing clue about his origin is that about 2 % of his genome comes from Neanderthals.

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.

Reis's group, the German Mental Retardation Network, has already sequenced the exomes — the 1 — 2 % of the genome that contains instructions for building proteins — of about 50 patients with severe intellectual disability.

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 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 use.

«You can conceive of this meeting as some people gathering around a beer or a whiteboard and saying, «Let's lay out some experiments to test some ideas about how genomes are put together and why they are organized the way they are.»»

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.

These retroviral gene sequences make up about 8 per cent of the human genome, and are part of what is called non-coding DNA because they don't contain genetic instructions to make proteins.

There were about 40 genomes of bacteria sequenced at that time, and what you could do was compare your gene of interest to other genomes to see if they contained something similar.