78 Current news about the topic genomes
rss30-01-2013
The barley genome is almost twice the size of that of humans and determining the sequence of its DNA has proved to be a major challenge. This paper published in Nature is a detailed overview of the functional portions of the barley genome, revealing the order and structure of its 26,000 ...
24-01-2013
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have made a large step towards the understanding of how human genes are regulated. In a new study they identified the DNA sequences that bind to over four hundred proteins that control expression of genes. This knowledge is required to understand ...
Detailed information about the transcriptome help to understand the disease mechanism of a fungal pathogen
16-11-2012
In collaboration with the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne GATC Biotech AG has decoded the genome of the fungal pathogen Colletotrichum graminicola. The recently published results show that gene expression plays a decisive role in plant disease. With this ...
21-09-2012
An international research team, led by Institute of Oceanology of Chinese Academy of Sciences and BGI, has completed the sequencing, assembly and analysis of Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) genome — the first mollusk genome to be sequenced — that will help to fill a void in our ...
Max Planck researchers describe Denisovan genome, illuminating the relationships between Denisovans and present-day humans
03-09-2012
The analyses of an international team of researchers led by Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, show that the genetic variation of Denisovans was extremely low, suggesting that although they were present in large parts of Asia, their ...
29-08-2012
Although scientists sequenced the entire human genome more than 10 years ago, much work remains to understand what proteins all those genes code for.Now, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes a new approach that allows researchers to decode the ...
04-07-2012
A consortium of nine research centres has obtained the melon genome, a horticultural specie with high economic value around the world. It is the first time that a Spanish initiative that unites private and state-run centres has obtained the complete genome of a higher organism, in this case a ...
04-07-2012
Scientists say they have assembled more completely the string of genetic letters that could control how well parrots learn to imitate their owners and other sounds. The research team unraveled the specific regions of the parrots' genome using a new technology, single molecule sequencing, and ...
21-12-2011
Despite advanced genome technologies, it remains a major challenge to identify small variations between the hereditary material (DNA) of different individuals. VIB scientists connected to the K.U.Leuven and the University of Antwerp describe in Nature Biotechnology a method that makes it ...
19-10-2011
The South China Center for Innovative Pharmaceuticals, Sun Yat-Sen University, and BGI, the world's largest genomic organization, announced that they were among the research organizations from China, US and UK comprising an international research group that completed the genome sequence and ...
