News tagged with rna sequences

Automated cDNA preparation system accelerates CAGE analysis on a single molecule sequence

Researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) have developed a robotic workflow for sample preparation on the HeliScope single molecule sequencer which drastically reduces sample preparation time to ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Investigators achieve important step toward treating Huntington's disease

A team of researchers at the UC Davis Institute for Regenerative Cures has developed a technique for using stem cells to deliver therapy that specifically targets the genetic abnormality found in Huntington's disease, a hereditary ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene fusion in lung cancer afflicting never-smokers may be target for therapy

Smoking is a well-known risk factor for lung cancer, but nearly 25% of all lung cancer patients have never smoked. In a study published online today in Genome Research, researchers have identified a previously unknown gene f ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Built-in 'self-destruct timer' causes ultimate death of messenger RNA in cells

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered the first known mechanism by which cells control the survival of messenger RNA (mRNA) -- arguably biology's most important molecule. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Massive DNA search uncovers new mutations driving blood cancer

The most comprehensive search to date of DNA abnormalities in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has unearthed several new altered genes that drive this common blood cancer, a finding that could potentially ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Old drugs find new target for treating brain tumor

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, in collaboration with colleagues in Boston and South Korea, say they have identified a novel ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists construct, to maintain complementary DNA libraries of first lizard genome sequence

Scientists at Indiana University Bloomington's Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics are credited with constructing the cDNA libraries for the first-ever genome sequence of a non-bird reptile, the North American ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New technique gives precise picture of how regulatory RNA controls gene activity

A new technique developed by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine allows researchers to identify the exact DNA sequences and locations bound by regulatory RNAs. This information is necessary to understand ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Temperature controls the genetic message

Alternative splicing, the mechanism enabling a gen to encode different proteins, according to the cell's needs, still holds many secrets. It has transformed the initial theory of one gen, one protein, but how it is controlled ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In next-gen DNA sequence, new answers to a rare and devastating disease

In Leigh syndrome, infants are born apparently healthy only to develop movement and breathing disorders that worsen over time, often leading to death by the age of 3. The problem is that the mitochondria responsible for powering ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mural cells from saphenous vein could have long-term benefits in heart attacks

Stem cell therapies promise to regenerate the infarcted heart through the replacement of dead cardiac cells and stimulation of the growth of new vessels. New research has found the transplantation of stem cells that reside ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Software helps synthetic biologists customize protein production

A software program developed by a Penn State synthetic biologist could provide biotechnology companies with genetic plans to help them turn bacteria into molecular factories, capable of producing everything from biofuels ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New mechanism in the regulation of human genes

Scientists at the Technical University of Munich and the Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen and along with their colleagues from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and the Centre for Genomic Regulation ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New level of genetic diversity in human RNA sequences uncovered

A detailed comparison of DNA and RNA in human cells has uncovered a surprising number of cases where the corresponding sequences are not, as has long been assumed, identical. The RNA-DNA differences generate proteins that ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

HeliScopeCAGE: A new gene expression analysis technique on a single molecule sequencer

A new gene expression technique adapted for single molecule sequencing has enabled researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) to accurately and quantitatively measure gene expression levels using ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0