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Researchers develop a structural approach to exploring DNA
Mar 12, 2009 |
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A team led by researchers from Boston University and the National Institutes of Health has developed a new method for uncovering functional areas of the human genome by studying DNA's three-dimensional structure ...
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Just like old times: Generating RNA molecules in water
Nov 20, 2009 |
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A key question in the origin of biological molecules like RNA and DNA is how they first came together billions of years ago from simple precursors. Now, in a study appearing in this week's Journal of Biological Chemistry, resear ...
New cheaper method for mapping disease genes
May 27, 2008 |
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Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have developed a new DNA-sequencing method that is much cheaper than those currently in use in laboratories. They hope that this new method will make it possible ...
New tool helps researchers identify DNA patterns of cancer, genetic disorders
May 19, 2009 |
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A new tool will help researchers identify the minute changes in DNA patterns that lead to cancer, Huntington's disease and a host of other genetic disorders. The tool was developed at North Carolina State ...
Single-stranded DNA-binding protein is dynamic, critical to DNA repair
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Researchers report that a single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB), once thought to be a static player among the many molecules that interact with DNA, actually moves back and forth along single-stranded ...
We are all mutants: Measurement of mutation rate in humans by direct sequencing
Aug 27, 2009 |
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An international team of 16 scientists today reports the first direct measurement of the general rate of genetic mutation at individual DNA letters in humans. The team sequenced the same piece of DNA - 10,000,000 or so letters ...
Genetic 'telepathy'? A bizarre new property of DNA
Jan 28, 2008 |
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Scientists are reporting evidence that intact, double-stranded DNA has the “amazing” ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a distance. And then like friends with similar interests, the bits of genetic ...
Micro-RNAs Are Life’s Genetic Sculptors
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale scientists have found a way to study within a living organism the wonders of micro-RNAs - tiny bits of RNA that act like a sculptor and shape the activity of hundreds of genes. The work ...
New Forensic Method Aims to Predict What a Person Looks Like from DNA Sample
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Arizona research team recently completed a study looking at the DNA blueprint of almost 1,000 individuals and comparing that to detailed measurements of their hair, skin and ...
How RNA polymerase II gets the go-ahead for gene transcription
Oct 09, 2009 |
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All cells perform certain basic functions. Each must selectively transcribe parts of the DNA that makes up its genome into RNAs that specify the structure of proteins. The set of proteins synthesized by a cell in turn determines ...
Scientists Build Nanostructures out of Single DNA Strands
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Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With its unique double-helical structure, DNA has the ability to be used as a programmable building material to construct designer nanoscale architectures. Complex DNA architectures could ...
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