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Gene regulation, not just genes, is what sets humans apart from primates
The striking differences between humans and chimps aren’t so much in the genes we have, which are 99 percent the same, but in the way those genes are used, according to new research from a Duke Univer… more →
Biosingularity
Keynote: Individual Genetic Variation: From Networks to Mechanisms (ISMB 2009)
themindwobbles wrote 5 months ago: Daphne Koller, Stanford University aka Understanding Gene Regulation: From Networks to Mechanisms. T … more →
Are Rapidly Evolving Human Promoter Regions Due To Higher Rates Of Neutral Substitution Or Positive Selection?
Kambiz wrote 1 year ago: Nature Genetics just published a brief correspondence on the evolution of promoter regions in the hu … more →
Epistasis
vidhyaj wrote 1 year ago: I learnt about epistasis in twelfth year of schooling. It was first used by Bateson to describe the … more →
No transcription factories !!
vidhyaj wrote 1 year ago: Last week I blogged on the talk by Peter Fraser where he showed evidence for the existence of transc … more →
Transcription factories
vidhyaj wrote 1 year ago: Today we had a very fascinating story by Peter Fraser (from the Babraham Institute, Cambridge), sugg … more →
Bad Bioinformatics
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sspiro wrote 2 years ago: A recent paper reports some of the most naive sequence-based bioinformatics I have ever come across. … more →
Love your LOV domains
sspiro wrote 2 years ago: A remarkable new paper in Science (subscription required for full text) shows that several Bacteria … more →
Why are regulatory genes often close to their targets on the chromosome?
sspiro wrote 2 years ago: This question is addressed in an interesting new paper just published online in PNAS. The authors dr … more →
Gene regulation, not just genes, is what sets humans apart from primates
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Snowcrash wrote 2 years ago: The striking differences between humans and chimps aren’t so much in the genes we have, which are 99 … more →
Bioengineers Devise 'Dimmer Swith' To Regulate Gene Expression In Mammal Cells
Snowcrash wrote 2 years ago: Three Boston University biomedical engineers have created a genetic dimmer switch that can be used t … more →
Mechanism of microRNAs deciphered
Snowcrash wrote 2 years ago: Over 30% of our genes are under the control of small molecules called microRNAs. They prevent specif … more →
Scientists discover new class of RNA
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Snowcrash wrote 2 years ago: The last few years have been very good to ribonucleic acid (RNA). Decades after DNA took biology by … more →
Scientists map key landmarks in human genome
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Snowcrash wrote 2 years ago: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers have developed a powerful method for charting the positions … more →
Researchers map out networks that determine cell fate
Snowcrash wrote 2 years ago: A two-step process appears to regulate cell fate decisions for many types of developing cells, accor … more →
Regulating the nuclear architecture of the cell
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Snowcrash wrote 2 years ago: An organelle called the nucleolus resides deep within the cell nucleus and performs one of the cell … more →
'Cancer prognosis gene' found to control the fate of breast cells
Snowcrash wrote 2 years ago: The gene, called GATA-3, is in a family of genes that guides development of stem cells into mature c … more →
Jumping gene could provide non-viral alternative for gene therapy
Snowcrash wrote 3 years ago: A jumping gene first identified in a cabbage-eating moth may one day provide a safer, target-specifi … more →
Genome code cracked for breast and colon cancers
Snowcrash wrote 3 years ago: Scientists have completed the first draft of the genetic code for breast and colon cancers. Their re … more →
Research Identifies Protein In Mice That Regulates Bone Formation
Snowcrash wrote 3 years ago: Osteoporosis, a disease characterized by a decrease in bone mass and density and which makes people … more →
