News tagged with mammalian genome
New cow genome sequence released
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Scientists from the University of Maryland have published their assembly of the domestic cow (Bos taurus), an important new resource for the genetics community. The new version of the cow genome improves consid ...
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Mobile DNA elements in woolly mammoth genome give new clues to mammalian evolution
Jun 08, 2009 |
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The woolly mammoth died out several thousand years ago, but the genetic material they left behind is yielding new clues about the evolution of mammals. In a study published online in Genome Research, scientists have analyz ...
Are there rearrangement hot spots in the human genome?
Nov 09, 2007 |
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The debate over the validity of genomic rearrangement “hotspots” has its most recent addition in a new theory put forth by researchers at the University of California San Diego. The study, published on November 9 in PLoS Co ...
After dinosaurs, mammals rise but their genomes get smaller
Jul 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence buried in the chromosomes of animals and plants strongly suggests only one group -- mammals -- have seen their genomes shrink after the dinosaurs' extinction. What's more, that trend continues today, ...
How embryonic stem cells develop into tissue-specific cells demonstrated
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May 12, 2008 |
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While it has long been known that embryonic stem cells have the ability to develop into any kind of tissue-specific cells, the exact mechanism as to how this occurs has heretofore not been demonstrated. Now, researchers at ...
Evolution of an imprinted domain in mammals
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Jun 03, 2008 |
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The normal human genome contains 46 chromosomes: 23 from the mother and 23 from the father. Thus, you have two copies of every gene (excluding some irregularity in the pair of sex chromosomes). In general, which parent contributes ...
Australian first: Kangaroo genome mapped
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Nov 18, 2008 |
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Australian researchers will today launch the world first detailed map of the kangaroo genome, completing the first phase of the kangaroo genomics project.
Platypus genome explains animal's peculiar features; holds clues to evolution of mammals
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May 07, 2008 |
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The duck-billed platypus: part bird, part reptile, part mammal -- and the genome to prove it. An international consortium of scientists, led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has decoded ...
New data suggest 'jumping genes' play a significant role in gene regulatory networks
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Feb 14, 2009 |
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Research performed in the Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering (CBSE) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggests that mobile repetitive elements--also known as transposons or "jumping genes"--do indeed ...
Scientists uncover new class of non-protein coding genes in mammals with key functions
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Feb 01, 2009 |
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A research team at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has uncovered a vast new class of previously unrecognized mammalian genes that do not encode proteins, but ...
Technique finds gene regulatory sites without knowledge of regulators
Nov 19, 2009 |
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A new statistical technique developed by researchers at the University of Illinois allows scientists to scan a genome for specific gene-regulatory regions without requiring prior knowledge of the relevant transcription factors. ...
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