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Enhancing Cancer Modeling with New Genetic Analysis Tool

Healthy food and exercise habits can have a big impact on a person’s general health. However, an individual’s genetics largely determines their chance of developing cancer.

5 Apr 2023

SoyOmics: An Innovative Framework of Multi-omics Database for Soybean

A major source of plant oil and protein for humans is the soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.), a crop cultivated all over the globe. The main objective for geneticists and breeders is to increase soybean production and quality.

5 Apr 2023

Novel Genes Could Serve as Predictive Biomarkers for PARP Inhibitor Response in Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer tumors harboring BRCA1/2 mutations are exceptionally sensitive to PARP inhibitors, while genomic alterations in other DNA damage response (DDR) genes are less responsive.

5 Apr 2023

Endothelial Deletion of Wt1 Gene During Coronary Vessel Formation Affects Embryonic Heart Development

How is the mammals' heart formed? What role do endothelial cells play? Do the same pathways and genes involved in the formation of the embryonic heart also play a role in repair processes?

4 Apr 2023

New Resource Provides a Better Annotation of the Genome and Understanding of Variant Impact

Each person has about 4 million sequence differences in their genome relative to the reference human genome.

4 Apr 2023

New, Effective Method can Make Rare Cell Types and Disease Patterns Visible in Tissue

The human body contains more than 30 trillion cells. Until recently, the sheer number of cells in the organism meant that approaches to understanding human diseases and developmental processes based on the analysis of single cells were a futuristic vision.

3 Apr 2023

Personal genome sequencing and personalized medicine

Genetic mutations have given life on Earth a stunning variety of various sizes, colors, and shapes. Some changes are beneficial, while others are dangerous or ineffective. There are about 4.5 million genetic variants per individual.

31 Mar 2023

Ancient DNA reveals African founders intermingled with southwest Asian people around 1000 CE

While serfs toiled and knights jousted in Europe and samurai and shoguns rose to power in Japan, the medieval peoples of the Swahili civilization on the coast of East Africa lived in multicultural, coral-stone towns and engaged in trade networks spanning the Indian Ocean.

30 Mar 2023

High-quality genome of a deep-sea eel illuminates the molecular mechanisms of deep-sea adaptation

Recently, the research team led by Dr. Shunping He from the Institute of Deep Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, published their research findings in the online version of SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences.

28 Mar 2023

Immunity adaptation found in genomes of Stone Age farmers

New research suggests that diversity in genes implicated in immunity might have facilitated the shift from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to agriculture that occurred in prehistoric Europe over the course of around 1,500 years.

23 Mar 2023

Identifying the underlying causes of rare genetic immune disorders

The activated PI3K Delta syndrome 2 (APDS2) is a rare genetic disease that is caused by cellular anomalies, according to experts from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research.

23 Mar 2023

Genetic signature might be shared across multiple substance use disorders, new study reveals

A new study has revealed a common genetic signature that seems to underlie multiple substance use disorders.

22 Mar 2023

Illumina launches its first product enabling long- and short-read sequencing on one instrument

Illumina Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, today announced that its first product based on its novel Illumina Complete Long Read technology is now available to order.

22 Mar 2023

Uncovering the evolutionary history of wheat during the Holocene

Over 35% of the world’s population is nourished by wheat, which includes bread wheat and its relatives. Wheat has been cultivated for more than 10,000 years, beginning with the “Neolithic Revolution,” and is one of the earliest ancient crops to emerge in the Fertile Crescent.

21 Mar 2023

Keeping lymph nodes in the body can boost the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy

Cancer treatment routinely involves taking out lymph nodes near the tumor in case they contain metastatic cancer cells.

21 Mar 2023

Study discovers the ability of certain blood immune cells to proliferate

The ability of a cell to divide, to proliferate, is essential for life and gives rise to the formation of complex organisms from a single cell.

20 Mar 2023

Cancer cells use new DNA repair mechanism to recover from next-generation cancer radiation therapy

A team of scientists led by Dr. Kei-ichi TAKATA from the Center for Genomic Integrity within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), has discovered a new type of DNA repair mechanism that cancer cells use to recover from next-generation cancer radiation therapy.

20 Mar 2023

Genomic analysis shows Ashaninka people are not as homogeneous as previously reported

The Ashaninka are the most numerous Indigenous people living in the rainforests of Peru and Brazil where they inhabit a crucial area between the Andes and sources of the Amazon River. And yet, despite the size of the population and their importance in the past and present, their genetic history has remained understudied.

17 Mar 2023

The impact of genome doubling on the development of cancer

Since a single cell has 2–3 m of DNA, the only method to store it is in tight coils. The answer is chromatin, a DNA-protein complex that is wrapped around histone proteins.

17 Mar 2023

New framework to identify possible viral hazards to human health

The majority of what scientists know about viruses in animals comes from the list of nucleotides that constitute their genomic sequence, which, although useful, provides relatively few signals about a virus’ propensity to infect people.

14 Mar 2023

Genomic News and Research

Enhancing Cancer Modeling with New Genetic Analysis Tool

SoyOmics: An Innovative Framework of Multi-omics Database for Soybean

Novel Genes Could Serve as Predictive Biomarkers for PARP Inhibitor Response in Prostate Cancer

Endothelial Deletion of Wt1 Gene During Coronary Vessel Formation Affects Embryonic Heart Development

New Resource Provides a Better Annotation of the Genome and Understanding of Variant Impact

New, Effective Method can Make Rare Cell Types and Disease Patterns Visible in Tissue

Personal genome sequencing and personalized medicine

Ancient DNA reveals African founders intermingled with southwest Asian people around 1000 CE

High-quality genome of a deep-sea eel illuminates the molecular mechanisms of deep-sea adaptation

Immunity adaptation found in genomes of Stone Age farmers

Identifying the underlying causes of rare genetic immune disorders

Genetic signature might be shared across multiple substance use disorders, new study reveals

Illumina launches its first product enabling long- and short-read sequencing on one instrument

Uncovering the evolutionary history of wheat during the Holocene

Keeping lymph nodes in the body can boost the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy

Study discovers the ability of certain blood immune cells to proliferate

Cancer cells use new DNA repair mechanism to recover from next-generation cancer radiation therapy

Genomic analysis shows Ashaninka people are not as homogeneous as previously reported

The impact of genome doubling on the development of cancer

New framework to identify possible viral hazards to human health

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