News tagged with rearrangements
Genomes of biofuel yeasts reveal clues that could boost fuel ethanol production
Nov 05, 2009 |
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As global temperatures and energy costs continue to soar, renewable sources of energy will be key to a sustainable future. An attractive replacement for gasoline is biofuel, and in two studies published online in Genome Re ...
Fast molecular rearrangements hold key to plastic's toughness
Nov 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Plastics are everywhere in our modern world, largely due to properties that render the materials tough and durable, but lightweight and easily workable. One of their most useful qualities, ...
Researchers discover atomic bomb effect results in adult-onset thyroid cancer
Aug 29, 2008 |
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Radiation from the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, likely rearranged chromosomes in some survivors who later developed papillary thyroid cancer as adults, according to Japanese researchers.
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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 ...
Scientists show how DNA repairs may reshape the genome
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Aug 13, 2008 |
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Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) have shown how broken sections of chromosomes can recombine to change genomes and spawn new species.
Researchers uncover potential mechanisms to protect against genetic alterations, diseases
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Peering into the DNA of tiny yeast, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego and the San Diego Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have pinpointed a large number of ...
Petascale computing tools could provide deeper insight into genomic evolution
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Nov 17, 2009 |
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Technological advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing have opened up the possibility of determining how living things are related by analyzing the ways in which their genes have been rearranged on chromosomes. ...
Rearrangements of multifunctional genes cause cancer in children and young people
Mar 10, 2009 |
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A doctoral thesis presented at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that three genes that lie behind a number of malignant tumour diseases are normally involved in several fundamental processes ...
Physicists Find a World of Motion In the Mystery of Aging Glass
Sep 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists super-cooled a liquid into glass in order to observe the slowing of particles. It's a material that still perplexes researchers despite thousands of years of household and industrial use.
Aberrations in region of chromosome 1q21.1 associated with broad range of disorders in children
Sep 10, 2008 |
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Researchers have discovered a submicroscopic aberration in a particular region of human chromosome 1q21.1 that appears to be associated with a variety of developmental disorders in children. The aberration can manifest itself ...
Mutant sperm guide clinicians to new diseases
Dec 02, 2007 |
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Research published today in Nature Genetics shows that some rearrangements of the human genome occur more frequently than previously thought. The work is likely to lead to new identification of genes involved in disease and to ...
Breast cancer genome shows evolution, instability of cancer
Dec 15, 2008 |
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A newly published genome sequence of a breast cancer cell line reveals a heavily rearranged genetic blueprint involving breaks and fusions of genes and a broken DNA repair machinery, said researchers at Baylor College of ...
Chromosome breakpoints contribute to genetic variation
Apr 23, 2009 |
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A new study reveals that - contrary to decades of evolutionary thought - chromosome regions that are prone to breakage when new species are formed are a rich source of genetic variation.
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