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DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms. Nearly every cell in a person’s body has the same DNA. Most DNA is located in the cell nucleus (where it is called nuclear DNA), but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria (where it is called mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA).

Scientists use computational biology to identify functional elements in the human genome

UMass Medical School researchers Zhiping Weng, PhD, and Jill Moore, PhD, and MD/PhD students Michael Purcaro and Henry Pratt are lead authors on the latest publication of data from the ambitious ENCODE project.

30 Jul 2020

Commercial pesticides can help improve crop safety

Researchers have revealed that commercial pesticides can be applied to crops in the Cucurbitaceae family to decrease their accumulation of hydrophobic pollutants, thereby improving crop safety.

29 Jul 2020

Movement of small RNAs underlies mobile RNA interference

Biologists have known for some time that RNA interference can silence genes in far-off cells. They suspected that a messenger substance “transmits” RNA interference.

29 Jul 2020

Human genome may explain the neonatal origins of immune and inflammatory diseases

A study published in the journal Nature Communications has pinpointed a number of areas of the human genome that may help explain the neonatal origins of chronic immune and inflammatory diseases of later life, including type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and coeliac disease.

29 Jul 2020

Study sheds new light on core regulatory networks that govern cell types in vertebrates

The FANTOM Consortium has shed new light into the main regulatory networks that govern the types of cells found in different vertebrate species.

29 Jul 2020

New technology helps visualize entire genome at molecular resolution

Scientists from Harvard University, CNAG, and CRG have demonstrated a pioneering technology that helps observe hundreds of genomes under the microscope.

29 Jul 2020

AI algorithm can identify patterns of mutations and prognosis from tumor images

Researchers at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, UK, and collaborators have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that uses computer vision to analyse tissue samples from cancer patients.

28 Jul 2020

A novel approach to identify cancer targets using 'synthetic lethality'

With advances in genome sequencing, cancer treatments have increasingly sought to leverage the idea of "synthetic lethality," exploiting cancer-specific genetic defects to identify targets that are uniquely essential to the survival of cancer cells.

28 Jul 2020

EBV viral genome modifies the host epigenetic landscape to promote gastric cancer

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), one of the most common human viruses, is associated with about 8-10 per cent of stomach -- or gastric -- cancers, the third leading cause of cancer death globally.

28 Jul 2020

Research identifies TLR7 gene that predisposes individuals to severe COVID-19

Current observations suggest that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 causes severe symptoms mainly in elderly patients with chronic disease.

27 Jul 2020

Computational tool can help study APA mechanism that regulates gene expression

Scientists keen on solving the regulation of genes implicated in human health and disease are widening their horizons by closely APA.

27 Jul 2020

Genome editing technologies can help understand disease-associated genetic mutations

Scientists have developed novel genome-editing technology that could help understand disease-related genetic mutations based on C-to-G single base variations.

27 Jul 2020

Epigenomic data can help characterize genes that play key role in cancer progression

As cancer cells evolve, many of their genes become overactive while others are turned down. These genetic changes can help tumors grow out of control and become more aggressive, adapt to changing conditions, and eventually lead the tumor to metastasize and spread elsewhere in the body.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 24 Jul 2020

Less invasive imaging system can improve cancer diagnosis

Cancer diagnosis requires a lengthy process of multiple analyses of tissue biopsies, impeding the quick and early detection of cancers.

From Osaka University 24 Jul 2020

New startup launched to overcome the challenge of delivering next-generation therapeutics

Harvard University's Office of Technology Development (OTD) and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health today announced the launch of Vesigen Therapeutics, a startup company that aims to overcome the challenge of delivering next-generation therapeutics, such as gene-editing complexes, RNA molecules, and other large proteins, to intracellular targets in specific tissues of interest.

23 Jul 2020

A novel technique to control and visualize functions of living cells

A research group composed of Professor Takayuki Shibata and his colleagues at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology has given greater functionalities to atomic force microscopy (AFM).

23 Jul 2020

DNA sequencing shows temperature impacts the resilience and reproductive success of trees

A closer look at DNA from south-western Australia's native Nuytsia floribunda, known as the WA Christmas Tree, has found that temperature, rather than rainfall, impacts the tree's resilience and reproductive success.

23 Jul 2020

Humans are mutating SARS-CoV-2, but natural selection enables the virus to bounce back

Scientists investigating the evolution of the virus that causes Covid19 say that its mutation seems to be directed by human proteins that degrade it, but natural selection of the virus enables it to bounce back. The findings could help in the design of vaccines against the virus.

From University of Bath 23 Jul 2020

New pathways that could help treat RNA viruses discovered

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have identified new pathways in an RNA-based virus where inhibitors, like medical treatments, unbind.

23 Jul 2020

Simple DNA repeats can be the basis for genetic computers

Dr. Herbert asks what if our genome was far smarter than everyone previously believed? What if in the many DNA repeat elements lay the foundation for building a novel type of biocomputer?

22 Jul 2020

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Scientists use computational biology to identify functional elements in the human genome

Commercial pesticides can help improve crop safety

Movement of small RNAs underlies mobile RNA interference

Human genome may explain the neonatal origins of immune and inflammatory diseases

Study sheds new light on core regulatory networks that govern cell types in vertebrates

New technology helps visualize entire genome at molecular resolution

AI algorithm can identify patterns of mutations and prognosis from tumor images

A novel approach to identify cancer targets using 'synthetic lethality'

EBV viral genome modifies the host epigenetic landscape to promote gastric cancer

Research identifies TLR7 gene that predisposes individuals to severe COVID-19

Computational tool can help study APA mechanism that regulates gene expression

Genome editing technologies can help understand disease-associated genetic mutations

Epigenomic data can help characterize genes that play key role in cancer progression

Less invasive imaging system can improve cancer diagnosis

New startup launched to overcome the challenge of delivering next-generation therapeutics

A novel technique to control and visualize functions of living cells

DNA sequencing shows temperature impacts the resilience and reproductive success of trees

Humans are mutating SARS-CoV-2, but natural selection enables the virus to bounce back

New pathways that could help treat RNA viruses discovered

Simple DNA repeats can be the basis for genetic computers

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