Sentences with phrase «greater than the human genome»

Researchers have managed to sequence the giant genome of a salamander, the Iberian ribbed newt, which is a full six times greater than the human genome.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have managed to sequence the giant genome of a salamander, the Iberian ribbed newt, which is a full six times greater than the human genome.

Not exact matches

Studies over the past decade have revealed that the complexity of the genome, and indeed almost every aspect of human biology, is far greater than was previously thought.

When they measured the concentrations in the same area in chimp brains, the team found that the differences between chimps and normal humans were much greater for those nine than for the 12 metabolites not implicated in schizophrenia, suggesting that energy pathways implicated in schizophrenia were also altered by human evolution, the team reports this week in Genome Biology.

Cheaper, and more efficient, gene editing technology that allows scientists to manipulate the human genome with greater ease and precision than ever before is forcing researchers to consider these questions quickly.

By contrast, the hundredth most cited article on the human genome has been cited a few hundred times.The great majority of the 34,510 papers on the human genome listed in the Science Citation Index have been cited fewer than 10 times; ones that were never cited are not even listed.

Although CRISPR is incredibly useful for generating mutations by NHEJ and generating small mutations with HDR, when it comes to larger scale genome editing, such as replacement of a mouse gene with its human ortholog (greater than 5 kb), it remains to be seen whether CRISPR is as robust as conventional gene targeting.

While the genomes of two humans may only vary by 0.1 %, two strains of the same bacteria can differ by more than 50 % — greater than the disparity between the genomes of humans and mice.

«Even though a microbial genome is one - thousandth the size of the human genome, the total number of microbial genes in [the human] body is much greater than human genes because you have so many different species,» says Weinstock.