Sentences with phrase «know about genome»

They are the means by which we attach what we know about a genome to its sequence.

Much of we thought we knew about the genome is proving too simplistic, show The Deeper Genome and The Developing Genome.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Our bodies have about 1,600 known transcription factors at work within our genome.

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.

«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.

We now know that the human genome and the chimp genome differ by only about 1 percent.

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.

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.

«We know a lot about the human genome, but we also know that there is a lot that remains to be discovered,» Sebastiani said.

Erlich contends that there was no need to know anything about the people's genomes.

Crowdfunding a genome Pryer worried that because no fern genome had ever been sequenced, what might be learned about these ancient plants — some of the oldest known vegetative of life forms on Earth — was highly limited.

What is known about Azolla's true inner workings may still only skim the surface, but people all over the world, like Kathleen Pryer, a Duke professor who is crowdfunding the fern's genome, have continued to find creative ways to explore its possibilities.

Knowing the human genome was about to be cracked, the team quickly set up shop overseas.

«Now we know that this basic assumption about reading the human genome missed half of the picture.

The European Patent Office (EPO) announced on 23 March its «intention to grant a patent» to the University of California (UC) for its broad - based claims about the genome - editing tool popularly known as CRISPR.

«One of the cool things about Regeneron is that I know what VelociGene [the company's proprietary technologies for modifying the mouse genome] does, even though it's a department that's far, far removed from what I do,» he says.

Lander argued that we know far too little about the human genome's role in cognition and other traits to try to mess with it.

Biologists are keen to sequence the nematode's genome because much is already known about the creature's molecular genetics and developmental biology — a state of affairs that should help researchers to assign functions to the genes the sequence reveals.

We don't yet know enough about the genetic roots of disease to help these early adopters learn much from their genomes.

But for now, the genetics, and even when the genome is published, we still won't know, because so much of the human genome, we don't know what it means functionally; that holds true for modern humans, so of course, it's not going to instantly tell us everything that we want to know about Neandertals.

Ever since researchers sequenced the chimp genome in 2005, they have known that humans share about 99 % of our DNA with chimpanzees, making them our closest living relatives.

In it, they sound the alarm about new genome - editing techniques known as CRISPR and zinc - finger nucleases that make it much easier for scientists to delete, add, or change specific genes.

We know almost nothing about most regions of the genome that have been identified as potential targets of natural selection, observes Sarah Tishkoff, a geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

I mean, I would say the whole last 30 years have been remarkable times because so many new techniques have come online: dating, CT studies, the synchrotron, allowing us to look [at] individual growth lines in Neandertal teeth,... the ability to date things with much greater precision, and then DNA — and, you know, I was in Svante Pääbo's press conference in London in 1997 when [he] announced the first mitochondrial DNA and I went on record saying it was the equivalent in paleontology if landing something or landing on Mars and who could have imagined 10 years later we talk about the whole genome; it's incredible.

Over the past 20 years the public has been repeatedly told that these big genomic projects — starting with the Human Genome Project and going on through various other projects — were going to explain everything we needed to know about the «book of life.»

Upset about how the rivalry might detract from the scientific achievement, Patrinos invited Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute, and J. Craig Venter, president of Celera Genomics of Rockville, Maryland, to a «secret meeting» at his house near Washington, D.C. «I've known both of these guys for a long time — as scientists and as friends,» Patrinos says.

The genome data not only can help us know much more about the adaption mechanisms underlying minke whale, but also provides invaluable resource for marine mammal's future studies such as diseases control and prevention, species conservation, and protection.»

A group of genetics experts, along with the influential American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, have recommended that anyone whose genome is sequenced for any medical reason must be told about their genetic susceptibility to serious health problems, regardless of if they want to know.

First discovered in plants about 60 years ago, they are now known to make up more than 40 percent of the entire human genome and may play an important role in genome evolution (pdf).

The sequencing technology works by first chopping the genome into single - stranded DNA fragments and combining them with snippets of known synthetic DNA so that they form small circles of about 400 bases.

Dr Alonso, a Wellcome Trust Investigator and Reader in Developmental Genetics in the School of Life Sciences, explains: «We know very little about how simple movements are encoded in the genome.

Hakonarson's team conducted a genome - wide scan of about 1,000 pediatric diabetes patients, 1,200 healthy children and 1,000 parents of diabetics to track down any links between the illness and 550,000 known mutations found in their genetic code.

Each typical human cell contains about 6 billion base pairs of DNA, known as the genome.

«We are making great strides in identifying functional elements in the human genome, but we still don't know much about their biological relevance,» said NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD.

We can also ask which genes are changing, for the black - footed ferret genome is annotated with information about the genes and other genetic elements it encodes and with pointers to what is known about these genes in other organisms.

Known formally as Callorhinchus milii, the elephant shark boasts an incredibly compact genome — about a billion DNA base pairs, roughly one - third the length of the human genome.

Whether you want to discover new mechanisms of human disease, need a genome assembly for an organism you study, or just want to know more about us, Dovetail Genomics is here to help.

Data from the 1000 genomes project (1KGP) and Complete Genomics (CG) have dramatically increased the numbers of known genetic variants and challenge several assumptions about the reference genome and its uses in both clinical and research settings.

Assist disease control by providing up - to - date geographical information about known and newly - emerging forms of drug resistance, by examining genetic variation in the context of how whole pathogen genomes are evolving rather than as fragmentary information about individual genetic changes or polymorphisms.

Beyond the well - known function of poly (A) tail length in mRNA stability, recent years have witnessed an explosion of information about how changes in tail length and the selection of alternative polyadenylation sites contribute to the translational regulation of a large portion of the genome.

yourgenome is the place for you to find out everything you want to know about DNA, genes and genomes.

«Everyone knows about the human genome project, identifying genomes; then came transcriptomes (molecules that transcribe genes),» Kubanek said.

I was intrigued by a piece about a wiki known as SNPedia, and its apparent ability to interpret genomes more accurately than companies who actually study genomes.

«Even though the chimp genome has been sequenced, it's amazing how little we know about their evolution and the level of variation within chimpanzees,» said Przeworski.

Pandora calls itself «a music discovery service designed to help you find and enjoy music that you'll love,» and that is precisely why it is addictive — it takes information about artists and music you know you like and introduces you to others with similar «musical genomes.»

It is fascinating and heartening to me that in this day and age when we are unlocking the genome and it is not unrealistic to say that 3D printers might be used to provide organ transplants, that a prehistoric creature this large can exist and we know virtually nothing about it, and that is the technology part of this post.