Sentences with phrase «large animal genomes»
Our results suggest that the CRISPR / Cas9 system combined with SCNT technology is a highly efficient strategy for targeted editing of large animal genomes.
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This is because large chunks of our genome perform similar functions across the animal kingdom.
And the marbled lungfish — a living piece of evolutionary history with the largest genome of any animal — is also rated as of least concern, despite being commonly eaten by humans.
Ordering DNA from commercial outfits has become as easy as ordering pizza, according to Voigt, who projects that in upcoming decades scientists will be able to whip up much larger segments of DNA: synthetic genomes for yeast, animals — perhaps even humans.
The answer, according to a new study, may lie in «junk DNA,» large chunks of an animal's genome that were once thought to be useless.
COMPARE is a large EU project with the intention to speed up the detection of and response to disease outbreaks among humans and animals worldwide through the use of new genome technology.
What's Next: The genomes of most living organisms including all animals, plants and bacteria encode a large number of RNA - binding proteins with increasing evidence pointing to their extensive involvement in post-transcriptional regulatory events.
Over the next three years, the five centers in NHGRI 19s Large - Scale Sequencing Research Network will use high - throughput, robotic technologies to sequence a strategic set of animal genomes totaling as much as 54 billion base pairs, or the equivalent of 18 human genomes.
The octopus genome contains around 1,800 C2H2 zinc finger transcription factors, the second largest gene family so far discovered in animals (olfactory receptor genes in elephants are the largest at around 2,000).
Many successful assembly applications of the Pacific Biosciences technology have been reported ranging from small bacterial genomes to large plant and animal genomes.
Meanwhile, CRISPR also makes it easier to edit the genomes of relatively large animals, whose metabolism, physiology and anatomy are closer to humans than previous models have been.