Sentences with phrase «what human genomics»
Given 10 years» of hindsight and the current set of obstacles, it's no surprise that researchers now state somewhat modest expectations for what human genomics can deliver and by when.
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Sequencing technology has advanced so far that, these days, fresh evolutionary insights do not necessarily require any fossils at all: Within our DNA, we modern humans provide a genomic window onto what came before.
The hostilities involve institutions (M.I.T. and Harvard versus University of California), gender (Doudna, Charpentier, Zhang), geography (east versus west coast) and what you might call über - institutions (the Broad Institute, which has become an empire of genomic research under Lander's direction, especially after his leading role in the Human Genome Project, versus the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, whose president, Robert Tjian, is based at Berkeley and has co-authored at least one CRISPR paper with Doudna, also an HHMI investigator).
An array of short films gives you an insight into what is happening in genomics and how it is helping in the fight against human disease.
«It's been 10 years since the Human Genome Project was declared «complete,» but the amount of genomic knowledge we've gleaned since then — in large part due to advances in bioinformatics and supercomputing — have catapulted us far beyond what we thought we knew,» added Dr. Pollard.
7/12/2007 One Man's Junk May be a Genomic Treasure Scientists have only recently begun to speculate that what's referred to as «junk» DNA — the 96 percent of the human genome that doesn't encode for proteins and previously seemed to have no useful purpose — is present in the genome for an important r...
Join us on National DNA Day 2018 — the 15th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project — to hear from New York Genome Center scientists about how advances in genetics and genomics are changing people's lives — and what the future holds.
Race is a political grouping created to support slavery and colonialism, and its boundary lines have shifted over time and across nations to suit political ends... For the last three centuries, science... has been instrumental in justifying the concept of biological races — and this century's genomic science is no different... Despite the scientific and political evidence, some scientists are attempting to modernize the myth that race is a biological category... What's new is that today's racial science claims to divide human beings into natural groups with more accurate precision and without the taint of racism.»