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Breast cancer study: 50 women, 1700 genetic mutations
It isn’t always true for science, but it sure seems like the more we learn, the more complicated the knowledge becomes. Take breast cancer for an example. Every few months a new study is published that announces the discovery that this that or another gene is ‘linked to breast cancer.’ Likewise there is a stream [...]
Posted in Impact: Major Disease Cures Also tagged breast cancer, cancer, cancer study, DNA, Ellis, genetic mutation, genome, MAP3K1, personalized therapy 2 Comments
The shape of the genome influences genetics
Fission yeast genome……Credit: Wistar Institute It looks like a loose ball of yarn, as in the picture above. In fact, it’s the genome of a common yeast (S. pombe). The human genome spends most of its time in a ball something like this. The familiar “X” shaped chromosomes occur only at the time of cell [...]
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Graphene: Diverse advances
Scientists thought they understood carbon, until nanotechnology came along. Working with carbon at the atomic level (the nanoscale) has revealed many surprising properties. In particular, graphene, a sheet of carbon one atom thick with the atoms arranged in a lattice of hexagons like a honeycomb, has proven to be astonishingly versatile. For example, two recent [...]
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Fingered by hand bacteria
Over the last couple of decades it’s become almost routine to identify people with DNA. In the past few years, it’s been shown that bacteria on the skin, or in the gut, can be as individual as genetic code. Now a study from the University of Colorado (Boulder, USA) opens the door to forensic (legal [...]
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Clinical genetics: Two cases
The prospect of being able to identify genetic problems in the genome of an individual and then link that to a specific disease or disability – that’s been on scientists’ minds for a long time. Since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 the prospects have become even better. The sequencing technology is [...]
Posted in Impact: DNA Decoding Also tagged Charcot-Marie-Tooth, chromosome, DNA, fMRI, genome, Human Genome Project, Miller Syndrome, mutation Leave a comment
Waking the dead
Waking the dead. This was the actual title of a press release from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). What will the media of scientific weirdness make of this (not to mention the tabloids)? They’d make nothing of it; if they actually read the release. “Waking the dead” is a fanciful notion, something like a poet [...]
Human genetics: The mysterious unequal mutation by sex