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4 hours ago by Lovely book lilly

The Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) announced today that they will sequence the genomes of four species of labyrinthulomycetes. These little-known marine species were selected for... Extensive site includes news of various topics like Marine animals,Marine biology, sharks,Whales, ...

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6 hours ago by Michael

Shapiro next turns his attention to the manner in which the genome interacts with the rest of the cell to carry out computations. He uses the classic example of the lac operon to draw out several general principles: Weak interactions, specific binding and cooperativity are essential aspects of molec ...

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8 hours ago by Richard William Nelson

The anticipation around Charles Darwin’s 200 th birthday celebration passed nearly unnoticed. Few media venues ventured to highlight the day. Perhaps, the struggling economy naturally selected the sullenness. While researchers in Germany, announced completion of the first draft of the Neanderthal ge ...

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2 days ago by David Colquhoun

On July 1st. the journal Nature, published three reports that described genetic differences between people with schizophrenia and the rest of us. Nature held a big press conference, at the World Conference of Science Journalists, Many of the individual institutions involved in the studies also issue ...

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3 days ago by Michael

In order to better appreciate the teleological echoes of some recent research on the REST protein and its blinding sites, let’s first take some time to summarize the main points from James Shapiro’s review paper, “A 21st century view of evolution: genome system architecture, repetitive DNA, and natu ...

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3 days ago by lew

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3 days ago by saij

Photo Credit: Stefan Kraft, courtesy of the Wikipedia Commons Micheal White sets the record straight about what the platypus genome is and what it isn’t. Is the platypus part bird, part reptile part mammal, an amalgam of very different groups of animals? Is it a primitive mammal that resembles the e ...

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4 days ago by Randall Hand

David Cox of North Carolina State University has created a new visualization method for DNA sequences that he’s calling “symbolic scatter plots”. His technique starts out similar to Blast, he says, in that it takes the sequence at hand and breaks it up into small words. Whereas Blast computationally ...

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5 days ago by technoblabber

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7 days ago by The Paper Ostrich

Scientists have admitted that they are ‘deflated and disappointed’ after four years’ dull work to sequence the mouse genome came to boring fruition this week. British and Swiss geneticists had spent £8m on the pointless project and unveiled the complicated and unintelligible results at a stilted pre ...

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