News tagged with genetic mapping
Grass to gas: Researchers' genome map speeds biofuel development
Researchers at the University of Georgia have taken a major step in the ongoing effort to find sources of cleaner, renewable energy by mapping the genomes of two originator cells of Miscanthus x giganteus, a large perenn ...
Feb 10, 2012 |
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MSU geneticist helps find butterfly gene, clue to age-old question
(PhysOrg.com) -- Years after sleeping in hammocks in the wilds of Peru and Panama, collecting hundreds of thousands of samples of colorful insects, Mississippi State assistant professor Brian Counterman now ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Personalized treatment for Crohn's Disease a step closer following gene mapping
Three new locations for Crohn's Disease genes have been uncovered by scientists at UCL using a novel gene mapping approach.
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Using satellite data to decode disease origins
Uncovering the origin of illness is like finding a needle in a haystack, but that search is getting easier with the help of powerful tools like genetic analysis and satellite data.
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Advances in brain imaging can expedite research and diagnosis in Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common problem that is becoming progressively burdensome throughout the world. A new supplement to the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, Imaging the Alzheimer Brain, clearly shows that multiple imagin ...
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Gene controlling flowering boosts energy production from sorghum
A sorghum hybrid that does not flower and accumulates as much as three times the amount of stem and leaf matter may help the bioenergy industry, according to a study appearing today in the Proceedings of th ...
Sep 27, 2011 |
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Largest rice genetics study finds vast differences in rice
The largest publicly available genomewide association mapping study in rice to date has found that although the five subpopulations of Asian rice -- indica, aus, temperate japonica, aromatic and tropical ...
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Study discovers new genes for rare inherited diseases
An international team of researchers has identified two new genes connected with hereditary renal diseases.
Sep 06, 2011 |
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Dissecting the genomes of crop plants to improve breeding potential
Scientists on the Norwich Research Park, working with colleagues in China, have developed new techniques that will aid the application of genomics to breeding the improved varieties of crop needed to ensure ...
Jul 31, 2011 |
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World's most advanced genetic map created
A consortium led by scientists at the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School has constructed the world's most detailed genetic map.
Jul 20, 2011 |
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New gene that causes intellectual disability discovered
A new study involving Canada's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has found a gene connected with a type of intellectual disability called Joubert syndrome.
May 12, 2011 |
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How advanced genetic techniques can unravel complex human stories
Scholars from all over the world are gathering at the University of Cambridge today for a workshop entitled Studia Stemmatologica. They will be looking at novel ways of applying advanced genetic-mapping techniques ...
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Next generation sequencing establishes genetic link between two rare diseases
Scientists have successfully used "next generation sequencing" to identify mutations that may cause a rare and mysterious genetic disorder. The research, published by Cell Press on July 29th in the American Journal of Hu ...
Jul 29, 2010 |
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Researchers find candidate gene culprits for chronic pain
Chronic pain severely limits patients' quality of life and is among the cost drivers in U.S. health care. Patients can suffer pain without an apparent cause and often fail to respond to available treatments. Mayo Clinic researchers ...
May 06, 2010 |
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Sequencing of first frog genome sheds light on treating disease
A pair of University of Houston researchers contributed to the assembly of the first comprehensive DNA sequence of an amphibian genome, which will shed light on the study of embryonic development, with implications ...
May 06, 2010 |
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