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Storm of 'Awakened' Transposons May Cause Brain-Cell Pathologies in ALS, Other Illnesses
September 6, 2012 — A team of neuroscientists and informatics experts reports important progress in an effort to understand the relationship between transposons -- sequences of DNA that can jump around within the ... > full story -
Major Advances in Understanding the Regulation and Organization of the Human Genome
September 5, 2012 — The National Human Genome Research Institute today announced the results of a five-year international study of the regulation and organization of the human genome. The project is named ENCODE, which ... > full story -
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Computational Method for Pinpointing Genetic Factors That Cause Disease
September 5, 2012 — Researchers have developed a computational method of identifying "causal" genetic variants that lead to particular diseases, with wide application for genome-wide association ... > full story -
First Holistic View of How Human Genome Actually Works: ENCODE Study Produces Massive Data Set
September 5, 2012 — The Human Genome Project produced an almost complete order of the 3 billion pairs of chemical letters in the DNA that embodies the human genetic code -- but little about the way this blueprint works. ... > full storyMore:- Human Genome Far More Active Than Thought: GENCODE Consortium Discovers Far More Genes Than Previously Thought
- Comprehensive Transcriptome Analysis of Human ENCODE Cells
- Fast Forward for Biomedical Research: Massive DNA Encyclopedia Scraps the Junk
- Huge Human Gene Study Includes Penn State University Research
- UMASS Medical School Faculty Annotate Human Genome for ENCODE Project
- UC Santa Cruz Provides Access to Encyclopedia of the Human Genome
- Yale Team Finds Order Amidst the Chaos Within the Human Genome
- Biochemical Functions for Most of Human Genome Identified: New Map Finds Genetic Regulatory Elements Account for 80 Percent of Our DNA
- Allegedly Useless Parts of the Human Genome Fulfil Regulatory Tasks
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Mapping a Genetic World Beyond Genes
September 5, 2012 — Most of the DNA alterations that are tied to disease do not alter protein-coding genes, but rather the "switches" that control them. Characterizing these switches is one of many goals of the ENCODE ... > full story -
ENCODE Project Publishes New Genomic Insights in Special Issue of Genome Research
September 5, 2012 — Genome Research publishes a special issue dedicated to The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) Project, whose goal is to characterize all functional elements in the human ... > full story -
Mystery of Operon Evolution Probed
August 30, 2012 — New research suggests a possible explanation for the organization of operons, jointly controlled clusters of genes that evolved in bacterial chromosomes. Operons, which are found in the chromosomes ... > full story -
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Biologists Create First Predictive Computational Model of Gene Networks That Control Development of Sea-Urchin Embryos
August 29, 2012 — As an animal develops from an embryo, its cells take diverse paths, eventually forming different body parts -- muscles, bones, heart. In order for each cell to know what to do during development, it ... > full story -
Genome of Diploid Cotton Sequenced
August 28, 2012 — Scientists have completed the genome sequence and analysis of a diploid cotton -- Gossypium ... > full story -
Identifying Aggressive Breast Cancers by Interpreting the Mathematical Patterns in the Cancer Genome
August 23, 2012 — It is now possible to identify aggressive breast cancers by interpreting the mathematical patterns in the cancer ... > full story
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